Lynching Blues #6,19,21,8 & 20

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1. Lynching Blues # 6 is one of my earlier drawings in the series. I was still getting more acquainted with the ink washes, and layering techniques to build value. It was also my getting used to drawing the male figure in such a gruesome setting. 

2.Lynching Blues #20 is one of the later lynching scenes, that resembles a stage set for theater. Although many lynchings were considered entertainment, and events that attracted an audience. It is very fitting that the two wooden posts crop the image of the victim, as he hangs helpless with hands bound behind him, for an audiences' viewing pleasure. I also took a looser drawing approach.

3. Lynching Blues #21 is a very emotional piece obviously, as it certainly was to create it. I imagined the horror experienced, from a woman to discover her loved one was a victim of lynching. The man has also been castrated, as this too happened often during such times. 

4. Lynching Blues #8 is one of the more effective drawings I created, that captures the intensity and drama that awaits, when a black victim decides to defend himself against being hunted and murdered by a vicious white mob.

5. Lynching Blues #19 was inspired by the several photographs I had seen, where the victims were mocked by the onlookers, who seemed proud that another great deed was done. It is a wicked scene, that happened far too often on earth, during some of the most atrocious and deeply disturbing eras in American history. One of the victims was castrated also.