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Watts Rebellion Illustration (9.2022)

1 Initial thumbnail sketch by Kim Martinez "I wanted to get you these ideas for the Watts section of course I have not put a lot of energy into a complete drawing but these will give you an idea of what I am thinking. #1 Historically is not accurate but I liked the visual of the cops surrounding them as they are being pulled out kind of hard to see but the figures on the left in the car is the woman trying to hold back the man as the cop pulls. #2 After they have all been pulled the two kneeling on the ground is painful and humiliating, but also has a praying feel to it. #3 The figure on the ground is the female, not sure if I like that, but could easily be changed to a male and she could be pulled out instead of the male, finally the last male is already out being carried away. I think they all have a temporal feel to them."

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Watts Rebellion and Watts Renaissance sparcinla.org
Contents of this path:
1. Watts Riots and Charcoal Alley Illustration (10.2022)
2. Watts Rebellion Illustration (9.2022) Initial thumbnail sketch by Kim Martinez "I wanted to get you these ideas for the Watts section of course I have not put a lot of energy into a complete drawing but these will give you an idea of what I am thinking. #1 Historically is not accurate but I liked the visual of the cops surrounding them as they are being pulled out kind of hard to see but the figures on the left in the car is the woman trying to hold back the man as the cop pulls. #2 After they have all been pulled the two kneeling on the ground is painful and humiliating, but also has a praying feel to it. #3 The figure on the ground is the female, not sure if I like that, but could easily be changed to a male and she could be pulled out instead of the male, finally the last male is already out being carried away. I think they all have a temporal feel to them."
3. Watts Rebellion Illustration (2007)
4. 1960s Watts Riots - Sketch by Kim Martinez
5. 1960s The Watts Renaissance
6. The Watts Rebellion (2022)
7. Watts Renaissance (10.2022)
8. Watts Rebellion and Renaissance Illustration (11.2022)
9. Watts Rebellion and Renaissance Illustration (12.2022)
10. Watts Rebellion and Renaissance Illustration (5.2023)
11. Watts Rebellion and Renaissance Illustration (10.2023)
Early Great Wall Sketches sparcinla.org
Contents of this path:
1. End of Jim Crow Illustration (9.2022)
2. End of Jim Crow Illustration (10.2022)
3. The Ending of Jim Crow Illustration (2022) Early drawing of 1960s End of Jim Crow and psychedelic sky by Kim Martinez. "I have worked on the first panel and these are very rough sketches to give us an idea of the figure ground relationship. I used hippy chick grounds and they have a bit more of a cartoony effect if you want them more serious I think we need to go with a ground that is less happy decorative as per the middle drawing where the birds are coming out of the linear elements of the ground, I think it also says something a little more conceptual too. Of course these will require a lot more work as far as setting up to draw and I would do much bigger than a few inches tall."
4. Ending of Jim Crow Illustration (2022)
5. Watts Rebellion Illustration (2007)
6. Watts Rebellion Illustration (9.2022) Initial thumbnail sketch by Kim Martinez "I wanted to get you these ideas for the Watts section of course I have not put a lot of energy into a complete drawing but these will give you an idea of what I am thinking. #1 Historically is not accurate but I liked the visual of the cops surrounding them as they are being pulled out kind of hard to see but the figures on the left in the car is the woman trying to hold back the man as the cop pulls. #2 After they have all been pulled the two kneeling on the ground is painful and humiliating, but also has a praying feel to it. #3 The figure on the ground is the female, not sure if I like that, but could easily be changed to a male and she could be pulled out instead of the male, finally the last male is already out being carried away. I think they all have a temporal feel to them."
7. Watts Riots and Charcoal Alley Illustration (10.2022)
8. Chicano Movement Illustration (10.2022)
9. Chicano Moratorium Illustration (10.2022)
10. Vietnam War Illustration (9.2022)
11. Vietnam War Illustration (10.2022)
12. Vietnam War Draft Illustration (10. 2022)
13. Free Speech Movement Illustration (2007)
14. Free Speech Movement Illustration (2021)
15. Women's Liberation Movement Illustration (2008)
16. Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit- ins Illustration (2021)
17. March on Washington Illustration (2007)
18. Plantation Capitalism Illustration (2022) Early thumbnail sketch of Plantation Capitalism by Rio Diaz. Drawing was inspired by an interview with Reverend Lawson where he mentions the impact of Plantation Capitalism. "The rays of the sun outstretch the long arm of the Plantation Gov. House through time. The power of sun rises throughout time. Rolling hills, highlight the evolutionary waves of crops and bondage Sacrificed labor force - men women and children Native peoples collapse under the unsustainable brutality of abuse and workload - their enslavement is taken up by the next wave of slave labor. African slaves - harvest/produce cotton as well as more slaves – represented by a baby in basket of cotton; a mother straps her baby on the back of her older child, so they both can continue working. A man is dehumanized by whippings, his wounds are tended by the cotton he’s destined to forever harvest. Latin American labor force is sacrificed on the cross-looking vines – their legs become the trucks of the vine, to illuminate their entrapment; while their hunched bodies will be part of the vine that is fed by their blood and sweat - destined to produce till they die."
19. Kent State Illustration (10.2022)
20. Woodstock Illustration (10.2022)