IN BUSINESS AND EVEN ART...

June 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

SOMETIMES REVISION AND REPOSITIONING ARE NECESSARY!

There come profound times and moments where you must stop, review, revise and reposition. The landscape of business and the markets are forever changing especially as there is ongoing societal and economic change. The point is not always for profound revenues and profits—sometimes it’s in being active within the communities to be influential and impactful. Where audiences and communities go, that’s where a business must take time to pause observe and learn.

In this time of upheaval and change for America and the American Black and Brown Communities—not excluding the Caucasian, we’re taking time to review our activities to ensure our activities are in alignment with our short to long term goals, principles and values. As this is surely a time review and reflect, the capacity and composition of our works must remain high in integrity and fidelity to the communities we aim to represent, support and serve.

For more information about where we are within our projects and the creative process, click HERE!

CONNECTED: IN BUSINESS AND EVEN ART...

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COMMUNITY

May 26, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

MOTIVATED TO CONNECT MORE.

As a small business, our goal has been to develop products and services that cater to specific interested audiences and adapt accordingly. Well now is the time to adapt accordingly.

We’re looking to engage more Visual Artists and Creatives representing more communities and cultures that have and/or are helping to move the world forward. If you are a Visual Artist local to North Bethesda (Montgomery County), Maryland and the surrounding Washington, DC areas, we’d like to build and connect with you.

IF YOU—VISUAL ARTIST—ARE LOOKING FOR GREATER COMMUNITY, COME HELP BUILD ONE!

CONNECTED: COMMUNITY

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CONTINUING ON WITH "BLACK BRILLIANCE"!

May 21, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

EXPANDING UPON THE IDEA TO DO AND PRODUCE MORE.

Answering the call to develop more catering the the appreciation, celebration and inspiration of Black and Brown People and Communities, we’re continuing with this Through-Line Project (TLP). As our interests have grown within this subject matter of Black and Brown Success, Progress and Aptitude, we’re continuing also with producing Paint & Canvas pieces. These pieces will help to influence and impact other works and activities within the Design and Photography (including Videography) categories.

Consistent with our 2025 Theme of “Change. Art. Social Justice.”, “Black Brilliance” exists intended to be an Abstract Art series used in assisting in other product development activities. The goal is to feature positive imagery of Black and Brown Individuals, Communities, Cultures and peripheral aspects and images as positive messaging and reinforcement in contrast to the very present and relevant issues standing upon those communities today.

Adhering to our custom concepts of deep, rich and dark colors that tap into the spirit of Black and Brown People, we’re striving to use them as base elements to be reinforced and accented by bright metallic visual elements used to inform. Incorporating earth-tones, plant and flora elements and blues that inform the oceans and skies, we’re emphasizing Nature as a key component to culture, ethnicity and even progress. From an image of a Flat Black Human Silhouette on a Copper Background, we’re developing images that actively embody the modern aesthetics of Black and Brown People with a classic intentions.

Additional to our efforts, we’re aligning our private membership platform THE CIRCLE to further expand upon our private project, THE NūHUMAN FOUNDATION. We’re looking to connect and build with Visual Artists, Designers, Photographers, Videographers and Storytellers to create a new community to help take things above and beyond. Our goal is find, support, showcase and elevate artistic works that refine and redefine the African American, Black and Brown, and Ethnic identities and spirit into and for the future.

CONNECTED: CONTINUING ON WITH "BLACK BRILLIANCE"!

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THE ARTS QUARTER RECAP!

May 11, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

From Sketch, Illustration, Canvas Paint to Digital. We spent our Arts Quarter doing GREAT work and so…

Striving to adhere to the 2025 Theme of “Change. Art. Social Change.” we’re furthering our creative pursuits to develop Products, Services and Media that represent the Black and Brown Communities.

CONNECTED: THE ARTS QUARTER RECAP!

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2025 & THE 2025 DESIGN QUARTER!

April 08, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

CHANGE. ART. SOCIAL JUSTICE.

ART & SOCIAL JUSTICE

In planning new projects for 2025, we’re anticipating the many opportunities that will exists. We want to showcase the complexity of issues that continue to plague the Black and Brown communities as a way to further highlight the strengths and pros. Within Art—with the Arts Quarter done—we wanted in general to have developed and featured works and individuals that truly push the envelope to redefining People of Color in profound and positive ways. As we are now into our Design Quarter, we want to do the same with a focus on how cultural identity plays a part in things from commercial communication to environmental aesthetic language. With Photography and Videography well on their way we aim to capture these moments, we’ll also be using those forms to help reinforce the journey.

APRIL: ART INTO DESIGN. DESIGN . . . FOR CHANGE. CHANGE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. - PHYSICAL ART INTO DIGITAL DESIGN.

Primary Activities

Transitioning from Abstract Works to works for intentional Communication and Utility. Refining on Artistic Ideas.
Conversion from one medium to create on another.

Secondary Activities

Appreciating Other Artists and Designers.
Further Development of THE CIRCLE Membership. Creating the Roundtable.
Dedicated Podcast and YouTube Channel.
Administrative Supplemental Design & Photography Work.

Other Activities

Exhibition Visit & Viewing: Hirshhorn Museum
Website (Editorial)
- [1] Progressive Black & Brown Visual Artists of Yesterday
- [2] Progressive Black and Brown Visual Artists of Today
- [3] Progressive Black and Brown Visual Artists of Tomorrow.
Management: One dedicated In-Person Meeting with all Leadership Members.

MAY: DESIGN AS ART AND UTILITY. FROM A LARGE CANVAS TO A SMALL FRAME YET FOR TREMENDOUS IMPORTANCE.

Primary Activities

Applying more focus on Design as a major component of Community, Communication and Lifestyle.
Mixing Canvases, Modes and Mediums: Physical to Digital and perhaps back again!

Secondary Activities

Appreciating Other Artists.
Further Development of THE CIRCLE Membership Creating the Roundtable.
Dedicated Podcast and YouTube Channel.
Administrative Supplemental Design & Photography Work.

Other Activities

Exhibition Visit & Viewing: New York Metropolitan Museum.

JUNE: DESIGN AFFECTING THE PHYSICAL WORLD. DESIGN INTO PHOTOGRAPHY!

Primary Activities

Scaling up on Projects to include Photographic versions of established themes.
From the Canva, Digital and the Photographic. Integrating the worlds.
How Art and Design truly affect Photography and Videography for Community Building and Storytelling.

Secondary Activities

Appreciating Other Artists.
Further Development of THE CIRCLE Membership Creating the Roundtable.
Dedicated Podcast and YouTube Channel.
Administrative Supplemental Design & Photography Work.

Other Activities

Arts Quarter End Showcase Event!

As we march on, this year continues to remain anchored and dedicated to revealing and representing People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture in as many positive, supportive and reinforcing ways as possible. With use of Chat GPT and Ai Art Generators such as Midjourney and Leonardo Ai within our Red Book Drafting and Planning Processes to visualize and manifest our various ideas and concepts, we’re striving to push against the limitations and barriers of Art, Entrepreneurship and everyday life to create. This is the goal. This is what we aspire to do. Integration of technology to help us perform and produce is a part of the “Change” we’re talking about.

📕 RED BOOK FILES

We will be continuing to develop projects thru the Red Book Drafting and Development process. Where Ideas and concepts are drafted for later review for development, the Red Book process helps us to discuss and visualize opportunities for IP production and even service implementation. These files are of course proprietary and so project development then remains the specific authority and responsibility of LIAM IAN™.

ART, DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY, IP & PRODUCT

The goal is secure and enact as many projects as possible that are meaningful and consistent. Establishing a through line, we want to make sure all our projects have and communicate a consistent and coherent message. As we draft, discuss and develop these projects, we’re staying conscious and aware of the associated artistic impact to and within our local communities. As the theme for 2025 is “Change. Art. Social Justice.” all that we aim to develop and produce remain anchored within the same waters.

2025 & THE 2025 DESIGN QUARTER!

*Content within this post are subject to change as this also serves as a planning and reference tool for LIAM IAN™ management and administration.

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THE CREATIVE PROCESS DURING THE ARTS QUARTER

March 10, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

PAINT & CANVAS

Everyone has a particular way of facilitating their creative process to initiate and complete creative works. Us—well as we’re all individuals still—our process includes ideas, concepts and communication. We strive to introduce and develop projects collaboratively usually selecting specific individuals to head up those specific projects. Once we’ve delegated and handed off a project, we just let things be until things come to a natural conclusion.

As we operate with Yearly Themes, Creative Quarters and Weekly Agendas, the effort is to make all activities cohesive, consistent and relative. Proposing ideas and developing them within the RED BOOK process is fundamental. As everything we seek to produce and act within caters to Communities of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, some projects go thru a unique selection and development regimen while others are just picked up on with expediency.

Because we work privately and independent of other groups and organizations, we’ve become used to being within our own lane and to a degree that’s where and what we prefer. We now though—in this year of profound change social-economically—see the necessity to start gaining broader perspectives and engage different discussions about what Art is and it’s overall impact today and into the future.

From idea and concept to something tangible, we now not only rely on perspectives such as spirituality and intentional message direction to inform and guide us but we’re striving to include the experiences and perspectives of others.

Thinking on how to get things done of leads to stagnation and even hesitation. We strive to move boldly and decisively with an unrelenting ambition to just create. Utilizing our Custom Color Palettes and Codes, we’re making tremendous efforts to stay true to our core beliefs and messages of “Intelligence. Ethnicity. Innovation.” Sometimes hard to do, we make it happen.

Within this Arts Quarter, we’ve engaged ideas to not only develop works but to also delve deep into the identity of Liam Ian and LIAM IAN LLC™. From sketch to illustration to painting, we’ve managed to adhere to our messages and signature aesthetics to be further engaged by our audiences, clients and potential customers.

CONSIDERING THE BLACK AND BROWN

With a belief in Black and Brown Culture, we signify most of our works and creations around the elements that bore and established greatness within those people and their origins beginning African Americans and the associated Black and Brown Communities of the United States of America. We understand and see not only the ongoing potential of our people but the nuances that have defined our successes and our failures and this is included within our works everyday. There is a wealth and deprivation that exist and work within that culture coninuously. This informs our intention to create works steeped within abstraction rather than the blatant obvious. Messages and images and representations of individuals as to further employ the ongoing priority of the individual as the individual and collective identities have been diminished and distorted have become the major conscious or subconscious theme and style for many. We however like to draw upon elements that reside before, parallel and after the physical understanding. Abstraction is spiritual for us therefore it plays the most major role in design and composition.

Whether sketch or illustration or paint or digital, we assign purpose and meaning thru the process of writing, conversation and collaboration. Planning and resource allocation are also essential but we make it our task to fully understand what it is we’re trying to do thru what we’re trying to say.

We use colors like Bronzes, Silvers, Golds, Tans, Browns and Blacks (this year) within our compositions symbolizing and representing the depth of true value and worth of People of Color worldwide. As “Change. Art. Social Justice” stand at the forefront as our theme this year, we’re guided by our lead project being “Black Brilliance”; a TLP (Through-Line Project) established to review and share the importance of Black and Brown People to developing the past, present and future of society and the world.

Because we’re preparing to depart this Arts Quarter into Design and Digital work, we’re striving to answer the call of society and our communities to help reinforce that which is so desperately needed in the midst of change we’re seeing and experiencing; revelation, appreciation, celebration and confidence. Our creative process may seem complex—if not confusing at the least—but this is what makes us who we are. We are . . . LIAM IAN™.

CONNECTED: THE CREATIVE PROCESS DURING THE ARTS QUARTER

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LIAM IAN™ COLOR CODES

March 03, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

FROM ART TO DESIGN TO PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY.

Operating within THE ARTS QUARTER we’re developing Artistic projects that allow us to continue our exploration for not only Art and our capacity for it but also the depths of what makes us Artists within our own rights. Unique to our brand identity, we’re sharing the color palettes and schemes that further define who we are and what we use to communicate what we’re all about. Our messages are steeped in bold rich colors in conjunction with those that imply wealth, worth, principle and value for all that we strive to operate with. Colors that signify the place and importance of People of Color resonating with those Black and Brown Communities that share collectively shared experiences.

Thru the works we create we want to ensure the potency and truth of our artistry and creative communication. Whether internal propriety works or those commissioned, at the end of the day we’re committed to staying true.

CONNECTED: LIAM IAN™ COLOR CODES

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A DISCUSSION OF ART.

March 03, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WHERE WE ARE. WHAT WE ARE.

In thinking on a passion for Art, I’m thinking on a passion—the passion—for expression. Expression is heavily dependent on identity just as much as creativity. What we identify ourselves as is just as important as what we identify ourselves with. There is not and cannot be any other distinction.

In this moment where things have winded down a bit, I’ve come to understand that identity is just as fluid as time itself. It can change with the wind where one moment is not and will never be like the ones before. With this knowledge—this very quiet knowledge—is then the wisdom to adapt and change ourselves. This is the true capacity of our power; to remove ourselves from our relative situations as to not become a product of them but to master them by mastering ourselves. Discipline and patience and temperance are akin to the kind of Fortitude one must need…but that fortitude is not standing as a rock or a pillar against the wind, it is to become unburdened and as light as a feather to move with the wind.

Water stays water whether its Frozen, liquid, or even hot up to the point where it might evaporate into the air only to become a part of everything else or condense enough to reappear as water again.

We stay motivated to created because of that surrounds us. We are products of the past leading up to the present full of hopes and dreams of what should come tomorrow. Coming out of and a lasting aspect of the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s, we’re forever appreciative and acknowledge the importance of what informed and influenced us. Civil Rights, Hip Hop, Neo-Soul and R&B, Positive Black and Brown Images within media that reinforced principles and values to making things better for us all, we believe we got the best out of humanity. Because of that, we have the potential to being the best of humanity.

It’s not just about positive media of and about Black and Brown people, it also includes those of many races and classes and cultures around the world that stood to fight for Equality and Equity—Justice and Fairness. The Art that would inform the potential for a greater and innovative future came from many directions. Artists like Jean-Michael Basquiat, Nikki Giovanni, Cornel West, Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle and James Baldwin have helped to shape a view and paradigm of the world encouraging all people to find purpose and meaning within their humanities. Families and friends. Inclusive work environments and those social scenes that welcomed and valued different perspectives on style, music, history and life. We live our lives within a richness that could never be denied. Diminished and distorted perhaps but never denied.

While commercialization has leveraged the use of ideas and concepts that do not always add to the progressive and innovative development of communities, we understand the importance of a place and space for people to grow and excel freely. We want to be or at least encourage places and spaces like that.

*I personally experienced the hood. I was, am still and will forever be a product of the dysfunction. I was born within the hood; the urban or urban-suburban economically and socially disadvantaged and challenged areas of Washington, DC. Southeast DC. I grew up programmed with thoughts of misogyny and a perverse priority on materials justifying my worth and therefore identity. I grew up with anger and sadness often left under appreciated and valued. I grew up abandoned and abused and left to fend for myself after being dismissed as just another Black Man—Black Boy—that would never matter or develop into anything or anyone of true significance or value. Fatherless, having moved around almost twelve times before turning 21. I gained the perspective that I didn’t matter. My ideas didn’t matter. The Blessing is that I eventually learned and experienced different. My life matters. My ideas matter. My efforts and intentions. I matter. I matter therefore others matter. You matter.

While never attending such high-end institutions such as Duke Ellington School of the Arts, I managed to attend The Art Institute of Washington. I made efforts to do something with the talent of art and design while working and even hustling my own side “business”. Cultivating the skill and craft for drawing, painting and graphic design resulted in experiencing Photography. Mixed with modest entrepreneurship, I gained a respect for all that I had been afforded even those difficulties and obstacles experienced within my childhood. Drawing my focus on Art and its impact upon my life and development, I came to prioritize the perspective of purpose and meaning within our actions and how what we do and create within this world adds to the potential and possibilities for tomorrow.

As my Spirituality is and has been a core of all that I strive do and accomplish, I strive to maintain a spiritual significance to all that’s created personally and professionally. Whether alone or in conjunction and collaboration with others, the significance of the Black, African and African American Spirit, Identity and Experience remains the strongest foundation of my creative ambitions and intentions. Bold and rich yet subtle and sophisticated, all that I and we create within Art, Design, Photography, Videography and Business must resonate with the mantra that has been defined and refined by my ongoing spiritual significance; “Intelligence. Ethnicity. Innovation.”

I am and strive to always be encouraged by my flaws, failures, errors and mistakes, dysfunctions and disadvantages as much and as well as my talents, gifts, skills, opportunities, successes, and advantages. Thru everything we operate within, we aspire, encourage and inspire for positive Change.

CONNECTED: A DISCUSSION OF ART

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ARTISTIC FUSION!

March 02, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Week 10: Artistic Fusion—Blending Media & Styles (Mar 1 - Mar 7)

• Focus: Mixed media, digital + traditional fusion, combining past works into new compositions.

• Challenge: Merge two past works (e.g., an ink drawing with a digital painting overlay).

• Marketing Angle: Share the layered process and encourage others to remix their own work.

As we march on into March, our effort is to further our activities within and beyond Paint and Canvas Artwork. This week—the first full week of March and the last month of our ARTS QUARTER—we’ll be starting the process of incorporating different media types to make one piece. Where last week we covered how our environments can shape modes and moods, now we’ll be looking at fusion to bring order and beauty to the confusion cementing in reality the ideas and even illusions.

Whether sketched, illustrated or painted, sometimes the most profound aspect of a scene isn’t just the environment but also the very cool mixing of media and media structures that inform and influence us everyday. As we add more of the different aspects of life their relative very different dimensions, we create new masterpieces representing more than we sometimes we could ever imagine.

LOOKING FOR NEW RELATIONSHIPS!

As we continue to develop newer and newer projects, we’re also looking to collaborate and partner with those that excel within those same fields.

If you are a Visual Artist (Sketch Artist, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor, etc.) who is EXCITED to share their work, we’d love to network and collaborate with you!

We’re looking for other creators within the local North Bethesda, MD (and surrounding Washington, DC areas) for Artists, Designers, Photographers and other Creatives to build and commune with. As LIAM IAN™ symbolizes growth and change for one man of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, we want to features those who symbolize and embody that as well.

Contact us TODAY for more information!

ABSTRACT PAINTING

While there are many forms and styles to painting and creating visual art thru paint to canvas, the one that has always impacted me the most is that of Abstract Painting. Where it leaves one to wonder and interpret, Abstract Painting is for me a form that encourages one to see beyond the surface. It entices and teases the imagination. It allows one to break free from the normal understanding and conventions of things needing to be defined and readily understood as to conform to structure and order. Abstract Painting and Art allows a way for new trains of thoughts and ideas. I’ve chosen this form for our projects as not only to assist in the time constraints but also to lead room and freedom to use those visual concepts and ideas for “Through-Line” Projects. —Liam Ian

LIAM IAN - Ai (@Liam.Ian.LLC_Ai)

While we’re active within our Creative Quarter, we’re still using our resources to develop additional types of Art. Ai Art is category we like to play around in generally in also developing products and assets to implement services. We’re creating prompts to develop Creative Quarter and Category assets; this week will be about Painting and Dynamic Colors. Infusing our Custom Color Palette with messages for this Black History Month and other relative activities, we’re striving to bring more and more to add to what we do and offer.

CONNECTED: PORTRAIT MASTERY & EXPRESSION - WEEK 08

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ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING

March 01, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Week 9: Environmental Storytelling (Feb 23 - Feb 29)

• Focus: Backgrounds, landscapes, and environment integration in artwork.

• Challenge: Create an atmospheric scene that tells a story without characters.

• Marketing Angle: Post “before and after” progress of a background alone vs. with a character added.

Our effort is to further our activities in Paint and Canvas Paint Artwork. This week we’ll be on how our environments can shape modes and moods. Whether sketched, illustrated or painted, sometimes the most profound aspect of a scene is in the environment. The setting. The surroundings. The backgrounds that are also the foreground shaping us and the subjects to really conform to becoming a part of the canvas and tapestry.

ABSTRACT PAINTING

While there are many forms and styles to painting and creating visual art thru paint to canvas, the one that has always impacted me the most is that of Abstract Painting. Where it leaves one to wonder and interpret, Abstract Painting is for me a form that encourages one to see beyond the surface. It entices and teases the imagination. It allows one to break free from the normal understanding and conventions of things needing to be defined and readily understood as to conform to structure and order. Abstract Painting and Art allows a way for new trains of thoughts and ideas. I’ve chosen this form for our projects as not only to assist in the time constraints but also to lead room and freedom to use those visual concepts and ideas for “Through-Line” Projects. —Liam Ian

LIAM IAN - Ai (@Liam.Ian.LLC_Ai)

While we’re active within our Creative Quarter, we’re still using our resources to develop additional types of Art. Ai Art is category we like to play around in generally in also developing products and assets to implement services. We’re creating prompts to develop Creative Quarter and Category assets; this week will be about Painting and Dynamic Colors. Infusing our Custom Color Palette with messages for this Black History Month and other relative activities, we’re striving to bring more and more to add to what we do and offer.

CONNECTED: PORTRAIT MASTERY & EXPRESSION - WEEK 08

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REVISITING IDEAS: DXPESHYT!

February 22, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THERE’S A LOT THAT HAS AND CONTINUES TO INFORM AND INSPIRE WHO AND WHAT WE ARE.

WHERE JUST BEING REAL.

As a business operation, we’re striving to streamline and adhere to the ethics and ideas of doing good business. As a business based within the arts, we want greater to adhere to the TRUTH of who we are. For the Black and Brown—African American and Latino Communities, we want to stay true and be our authentic selves because this is the communities we truly want to serve and represent.

As we propose, develop and explore ideas and concepts for Art, Design and Photography projects, this is what influences if not inspire those ideas.

LIAM IAN™ / LIAM IAN LLC™

*We do not own the above imagery. WE support and post them for educational purposed to inform. We are encouraged, informed and inspired by them for the communities and cultures we serve. Please contact us for Source and Ownership information and for removal requests where applicable.

**As an Artist and Creative born of this modern world, my vision, mission and intentions are continuously informed by those things that have made me. Let’s face it, not all of those things are necessarily for the kids. I grew up raw. I grew up disadvantaged. I grew up and out of the hood. A love for Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rap. A love for the functional dysfunctional. Black Women. Fast Cars. Nice Clothes. As I’ve always aspired to do and become better and better…I’ve never forgotten where I’m from. I’ve never forgotten who I am and what I’m all about. While I’ve grown to have become a person and version of me, I’m still me at the core. —Liam Ian

CONNECTED: REVISITING IDEAS: DXPESHYT!

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"BLACK BRILLIANCE"

February 21, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

A Through-Line Project (TLP). This is a long-term project developed to be enacted in all creative and operational categories.

We use Ai Art Generators to help us fully understand and flesh-out our ideas, concepts and visions. While those ideas and concepts can be easily brought into fruition, we feel there’s greater depth, purpose and meaning within creative projects that span more than one category…especially when Ai inclusion is avoided and omitted. Our Through-Line Projects (TLP) assist in developing further custom IP and associated projects throughout the year.

For this project as a TLP, we’ll be featuring the different creative processes and phases as this project moves throughout our creative quarters and categories.

CONNECTED: "BLACK BRILLIANCE"

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LIAM IAN-Ai™

February 20, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WHAT’S BEST IN USING Ai IN YOUR ARTISTIC PROJECTS? FOR US IT’S ABOUT MORE THAN AN END RESULT.

As we move forward in providing select creative services to our clients and audiences, we’re active in engaging and incorporating Ai into our operations. Everything from the cultivation and review of ideas to the assistance of end-result possibilities and byproduct opportunities, we’re engaging it all.

While we continue to strive for a unique and individual brand identity, we’re furthering our focus on our local communities and those dedicated or legacy customers and clients that have enjoyed the services and products we provide.

As we create, we’ve come to a determination about Ai that helps to streamline operations while also adding to the creative process. Operating within four different *Quarters, we must be able to keep focus while transitioning into various creative mindsets to further cultivate projects, services, products and other associated opportunities. We believe the following about how, where and when to use Ai:

Idea & Concept Development: Many ideas come to us. We go thru a process of pitching and discussing new ideas and concepts that fall into either Art, Design or Photography but there are moments where none of us can fully articulate or gain the scope of a project. The financial and resource cost including the overall societal demand and general impact of such projects. Ai has been used to develop conversations to flesh out the details of an idea and how to get to the desired goal with reduced cost or stress.
Idea & Concept Visualization: Again—within a crucial part of the creative process—rather than using Ai and Ai Art as an end-result or product, we’re striving to allow what can be produced by Ai to inform and influence the artistic direction. We want to keep up with where this technology excels and what this technology can do but we strive to retain our creative prowess and skill in order to perform and perform to and beyond expectation. This truly is where Ai is most effective to us.
Generation of Assets: Especially in the realm of Design, we’re fully engaged in using different ingredients and elements to develop works effectively and communicate messages as efficiently as possible. In doing large client projects that require more than one product or type of work, we use Ai to further align the creative vision across elements and assets and even mediums.
Industry Research and Market Analysis: While this is not that much of a daunting task for us, it can become a timely one in order to plan, align and re-align a project or even the business appropriately and accordingly. Ai has proven its worth in further understanding paradigms and trends of various audiences, communities, markets and potential clients.

All in all, we’re a small business looking for every reasonable advantage to progress and excel. Operating in different creative and operational categories requires much of us to not only enact services, act within our communities and develop products but to also ease the pressure to operate effectively. With data needing to reviewed, ideas needing to be researched and vetted, and client/customer relationships requiring effective management protocols, Ai has become quite an exceptional tool and aspect of everyday life.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Ai Art Generators are in use for some projects with archiving of prompts and settings to achieve desired results. In serving clients thru Ai Art Generators, we ensure our clients understand the origin of prompts and those platforms or engines used. With several out there, we have a preference for Midjourney and Leonardo.Ai. We go thru a process of compare and contrast to review not only quality of imagery but an adherence to the general vision and scope of the project at hand.

CONNECTED: LIAM IAN-Ai™

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PORTRAIT MASTERY & EXPRESSION

February 19, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Week 08: Portrait Mastery & Expression (Feb 16 - Feb 22)

Focus: Facial anatomy, stylized vs. realistic portraiture, expressive brushwork.
Challenge: Paint or illustrate the same face with three different emotions (joy, anger, sadness).
Marketing Angle: Post progress shots and invite engagement with: “Which version tells the strongest story?”

Our effort is to further our activities in Paint and Canvas Paint Artwork. This week we’ll be looking at the significance and depth of Facial Features as the human face is one of the most influential and impact organic forms within art. Not disregarding the place of Color and how color affects the mood, this propels us into a phase where how we interpret the world thru color further encourages use thru, within and about people. As this well transitions between our categories of Art, Design and Photography, we’re using the discussions of Paint, Color and the variations and differences of the human face to better illustrate how we’re often affected within our everyday lives and how that communication can influence perspectives and paradigms as well as moods, dispositions and attitudes.

ABSTRACT PAINTING

While there are many forms and styles to painting and creating visual art thru paint to canvas, the one that has always impacted me the most is that of Abstract Painting. Where it leaves one to wonder and interpret, Abstract Painting is for me a form that encourages one to see beyond the surface. It entices and teases the imagination. It allows one to break free from the normal understanding and conventions of things needing to be defined and readily understood as to conform to structure and order. Abstract Painting and Art allows a way for new trains of thoughts and ideas. I’ve chosen this form for our projects as not only to assist in the time constraints but also to lead room and freedom to use those visual concepts and ideas for “Through-Line” Projects. —Liam Ian

LIAM IAN - Ai (@Liam.Ian.LLC_Ai)

While we’re active within our Creative Quarter, we’re still using our resources to develop additional types of Art. Ai Art is category we like to play around in generally in also developing products and assets to implement services. We’re creating prompts to develop Creative Quarter and Category assets; this week will be about Painting and Dynamic Colors. Infusing our Custom Color Palette with messages for this Black History Month and other relative activities, we’re striving to bring more and more to add to what we do and offer.

CONNECTED: PORTRAIT MASTERY & EXPRESSION - WEEK 08

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COLOR MASTERY & MOOD CREATION

February 10, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Week 07: Color Mastery & Mood Creation (Feb 9 - Feb 15)

Focus: Advanced color theory, emotion through color, and dynamic palettes.
Challenge: Take an old black-and-white sketch and color it using a non-traditional palette (e.g., a cold, eerie blue scene instead of a warm one).
Marketing Angle: Post side-by-side color variations of an artwork and ask followers which one feels more emotional.

Our effort is to further our activities in Paint and Canvas Paint Artwork. This week we’ll be looking at the significance of Color and how color affects the mood. As this well transitions between our categories of Art, Design and Photography, we’re using the discussions of Paint and Color to better illustrate how they affect communication and influence moods, dispositions and attitudes.

ABSTRACT PAINTING

While there are many forms and styles to painting and creating visual art thru paint to canvas, the one that has always impacted me the most is that of Abstract Painting. Where it leaves one to wonder and interpret, Abstract Painting is for me a form that encourages one to see beyond the surface. It entices and teases the imagination. It allows one to break free from the normal understanding and conventions of things needing to be defined and readily understood as to conform to structure and order. Abstract Painting and Art allows a way for new trains of thoughts and ideas. I’ve chosen this form for our projects as not only to assist in the time constraints but also to lead room and freedom to use those visual concepts and ideas for “Through-Line” Projects. —Liam Ian

LIAM IAN - Ai (@Liam.Ian.LLC_Ai)

While we’re active within our Creative Quarter, we’re still using our resources to develop additional types of Art. Ai Art is category we like to play around in generally in also developing products and assets to implement services. We’re creating prompts to develop Creative Quarter and Category assets; this week will be about Painting and Dynamic Colors. Infusing our Custom Color Palette with messages for this Black History Month and other relative activities, we’re striving to bring more and more to add to what we do and offer.

CONNECTED: COLOR MASTERY & MOOD CREATION - WEEK 07

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WRITING & JOURNALING

February 08, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

The fact is that we encourage and believe in the power of Writing and Journaling. While some kinds of creativity can be spontaneous and easily captured in a moment, there are those times and moments where creativity can become stagnant and even paralyzing. As we strive to introduce FOCUS themes to keep and engage creativity, we’ve proposed and therefore are introducing a personal Self-Help, Encouragement and Inspiration system. We want to help people maintain and enhance themselves within the things that are going on today.

As the purpose behind what we do is to display the Creativity consistent with Intelligence, Ethnicity and Innovation parallel to a focus on People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, the messages surround Ethnicity. Our goal is to further the drive, agenda and intention to use the Arts to Inform, Influence and Impact the Future and potential of prosperity for People of Color around the world. This of course begins with efforts to impact African Americans and the associated and relative supportive surrounding communities. Whether thru developing content and media or custom IP and products or implementing *Services to those who share our interest and passion, we’re committed to standing out by doing things with thoughtfulness, care and patience. Analysis and research. Planning and documentation, we strive to ensure depth as to add and encourage value and significance.

NO FEAR. STAY UNAPOLOGETICALLY TRUE TO BEING YOU!

Truth be told…I’m a complex man—a sophisticated man. I’m a man of creativity. I’m informed and influenced by many things as we all are. Not sure by what measure when compared to others but many things have led to the beautiful great and grand complexity of creativity that have become me. Whether by magazines, automotive, wall art social media, conversations or play time with my daughter, I’m informed to stay creative. In staying true, there are many other places you’ll find me doing appropriate and perhaps inappropriate things at a moments notice. In not muting or diminishing all that I am, one place I love to be is TUMBLR! Yes! You can find me there! Here’s to staying Creative!

CONNECTED: WRITING & JOURNALING

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH STILL IS . . . BECAUSE IT JUST IS!

February 01, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

BLACK HISTORY IS HISTORY. BLACK HISTORY IS EVERYDAY!

It can’t be replaced and can never—will never—be denied. Happy February! It doesn’t need to be Black History Month. Black History is ALL the time!

Even though we don’t need a month because Black History is ALL the time! Black History is happening ALL THE TIME!!!

Perhaps we need to move past what was though. Thanks to the clumsy and callous, evil and underhanded behaviors of some, perhaps it’s time for US to expand upon what was to make it even greater! Change—Change for the better—sometimes happens out of chaos and destruction. Perhaps to rebuild and rebuild better!

BECAUSE BLACK HISTORY IS ALL THE TIME…

…we’re making efforts to fill the voids by creating and sharing and appreciating Black Art. While it’s our belief and agenda to bring Black Art and Creativity to the forefront, it’s always a special case when we do these things during the Arts Quarter. As so much is under fire and being dismantled for the interests and intentions of others, we’re committed to not only investing in Black Art but sharing them with others. We want to further build and strengthen those Communities of Color that see oppression and repression especially as a response to all that needs to be addressed. We believe that thru chaos and destruction come greater and better things. Innovation has its roots in being resilient in the midst of trial and change.

Within the Arts Quarter we’ll be doing all that we can to not only create but to discover and shed light on those positioned to make an impression to enhance, innovate and strengthen the various communities that have added to the GREATNESS that has become the United States and those nations around the world.

HATE IS NOTHING. HATE IS NOTHING BUT FUEL FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD!

We encourage others to create. CREATE! Create and innovate. There’s opportunity in adversity. There’s power in change. There’s truth in persistence and resilience. There’s a Future in Hope and the act of doing for all that is truly good and right. Creating that which supports and reinforces is in the essence of Promise. We encourage Artists and Creatives to break beyond the barriers of engineered dysfunction, creative blocks and the distraction of issues to inform, educate, encourage, inspire and celebrate others. Peel back the curtains of lies and deception to further the cause of truth—forceful unrelenting truth. This is the time. This is most certainly the time!

Let nothing hold you back! Let nothing hold you back from adding to the tapestry of this world…because this world is ours! This world that is full of plentiful and ample wonder and treasure. Big enough for us all—this world is our home. It belongs to us all and not just one segment or group that wish to plunder and conquer. This world is ours and thru our creative genius and ability, we must take on the mantle of doing greater and greater things. We must be compelled to change because change is happening whether we like it or not. Let us change to implement change and not have “change” be set upon nor against us. Be beyond ‘Happy Black History Month” because Black History is still being written. The stories are still being experienced to be told.

*In honor of what they’re trying to erase, we share our thoughts for the Power and Spirit of Kiah Duggins, Incoming Howard Professor, Harvard Law School Graduate and Civil Rights Lawyer who was killed in the recent Potomac River plane crash. Prayers and Blessings to her family and friends and all those lives for whom she’s touched, improved and fought for—we honor you Kiah Duggins. May her memory and all that she accomplished fiercely encourage, inspire and empower us all.

CONNECTED: BLACK HISTORY MONTH STILL IS . . . BECAUSE IT JUST IS!

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LIAM IAN'S THE CREATIVE COLORING BOOK

January 31, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Backed up on work and assignments with this project on hold for a few factors, we’re making the decision to self publish this book. Until we get to that point though, we’re publishing portions of the book here.

[LIAM IAN'S THE CREATIVE COLORING BOOK SAMPLE]

Like our custom “THE MOTIVATION BOOK”, this CREATIVE COLORING BOOK was inspired by many sources. As we’ve moved into what feels like a whole different phase of existence as People of Color in this modern day, we find there’s a need to prioritize remembering the messages of the past that have served to inform us about who we are and who ought to become. We believe in having a responsibility within society to making the future a better place and that starts with recognizing the responsibility we have to ourselves an how we treat and consider others today.

CREATIVITY MATTERS!

Out of our Coaching & Consulting platform, we’re to inspire creativity in as many places as possible. This coloring book also assists us in conveying to you and others that creativity matters! Creativity—as much People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture—matters.

CONNECTED: LIAM IAN'S THE CREATIVE COLORING BOOK

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THE MOTIVATION BOOK

January 30, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Backed up on work and assignments with this project on hold for a few factors, we’re making the decision to self publish this book. Until we get to that point though, we’re publishing portions of the book here.

[THE MOTIVATION BOOK SAMPLE]

THE MOTIVATION BOOK was inspired by many sources. As we’ve moved into what feels like a whole different phase of existence as People of Color in this modern day, we find there’s a need to prioritize remembering the messages of the past that have served to inform us about who we are and who ought to become. We believe in having a responsibility within society to making the future a better place and that starts with recognizing the responsibility we have to ourselves an how we treat and consider others today.

YOU MATTER!

A part of our Coaching & Consulting platform, this book also assists us in conveying to you and others that YOU MATTER!

In a world where the rules are changing . . . fast, disruption seems the playbook of those with agendas, intentions and resources, and personal identity suggest where we fall and exist within societies, we understand the feeling of being invisible. We understand the feeling of being lost, undervalued, stuck with no opportunities and the feeling of being detached from purpose and meaning. Some feel wiped out . . . before they’ve even started.

Things change and so we believe in recognizing change. We believe in answering the call of change to impact change rather than to be just subject to change. For us, the answer to change firstly is to remind ourselves of those icons of the past that’ve assisted in the proactive and progressive stance to embrace and even facilitate change for the sake of change.

CONNECTED: THE MOTIVATION BOOK

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MINDFUL GOAL-SETTING

January 21, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Plain and simple, as a supplemental product to “THE MOTIVATION BOOK”, we’ve developed our own proprietary system that Encourages and Inspires Artists to Entrepreneurs to even Family Leaders to hold fast to their lives by planning and gaining Vision enough to create their Mission.

Out of our practice within Coaching and Consulting, we’ve developed this system inspired by others that have been long-time leading names within Self-Help, Encouragement and Productivity. Our system is common-sense and so we believe it has the potential to become common-place. It is our hope and drive for this system to become common-place for Creatives of Color, Ethnicity and Culture further acknowledging our commitment to “Intelligence, Ethnicity and Innovation.”

This product is set to debut in February 2025! Stay tuned!

*As a byproduct of my passion of creative writing; poetry and fiction, I’ve also come to understand the place of journaling, assessing and planning. The process of writing often gives clarity thru slowing things down to review and gain an understanding in order to articulate thoughts effectively. Yes, it’s dependent on many factors of the individual but for me, to write does a lot of good for me. A crucial part of the RED BOOK process of developing creative ideas, writing is a fundamental part of investigating and cultivating potential ideas.

I encourage—therefore we encourage—the process of writing. We encourage it not only for critical thinking but to cultivate better and better ideas. We encourage our clients and customers and partners and audiences to engage the process of writing. Write whether on paper or on your mobile device. Gather your thoughts and go thru the process of organizing them into articulation. Do this to go back to them later. Do this to expand upon them. Do this—do it—just because it’s a healthy thing to do. Write…to Create!

CONNECTED: MINDFUL GOAL-SETTING

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