PROTESTING IN MORE FORMS THAN ONE!

August 20, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Since the beginning of this new US administration, we’ve seen more and more encroachment upon civil liberties and constitutional rights more so than ever before and THEY ARE INDEED an attack on Black and Brown People. Blatant racism, the dismantling of progress for Black and Brown People and Communities mixed with authoritarianism and fascist agendas to serve white nationalism. Control, access and more wealth for the 1 percent while seeing diminishment and destruction of others that are not within the category. Unfortunately there is no other perspective to see this from with all that stands before us. Led by criminals, liars, cheats and pedophiles, what it is to be Black and Brown is a cause for strategic hatred and oppression.

“P2025” - Digital rendition of Neo-expressionist and graffiti-influenced painting as inspired by Jean Michel Basquiat.

As an operation representing, owned and led by—and so there to serve—Black and Brown Individuals, Entities, Organizations, Cultures and Communities with a specific focus on African Americans and the African American Urban Communities, we see our responsibility to doing something. With our access to resources we’re striving and trying to hold ourselves accountable because inaction truly serves to enable their actions. To stay silent or inactive is to give and pave a way for those who to intend to harm us to do just that.

As a man, Liam Ian see’s no way to stay on the sidelines while being a Father and Head of Household. While these roles are of the most important of all, fear must not prevent him from doing nothing. As a business, LIAM IAN™ must act accordingly. Our Art, our Design work, our Photography must adhere to the mission of doing and being more for those like us needing representation, protection and empowerment.

As we prepare to do whatever it is that we’re going to do, Click here to see Our Tips on How To Stay Safe with Protesting in Public or Private.

CONNECTED: FROM BEGINNING TO END!

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ALL THAT IS AND ENCOMPASSES BLACK BRILLIANCE.

August 19, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THESE ARE THE PUBLIC NAMES THAT HAVE MADE BLACK & BLACKNESS SO BRILLIANT, ENCOURAGING AND INSPIRING OTHERS.

Maya Angelou - Ai Generation (Leonardo Ai)

This list was inspired by the Instagram account @AAResilience (Profiles of Resilience).

SHARON THOMPSON - DR. CARTER G. WOODSON - EARL G. GRAVES SR. - HENRY O. FLIPPER - BUFFALO SOLDIERS - CATHY WILLIAMS - OLAUDAH EQUIANO - PERCY JULLIAN - SERENA WILLIAMS - IBN BATTUTA - ROBERT SMALLS - JESSE OWENS - ZORA NEALE HURSTON - DORIE MILLER - MARY BOWSER - ANITA BAKER - TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN - LANGSTON HUGHES - YAA ASANTEWAA - DUKE ELLINGTON - MAE JEMISON - AVERY BROOKS - MANSA MUSA - NINA SIMONE - DOROTHY DANDRIDGE - JOE LOUIS - GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER - CINQUE - HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS - THURGOOD MARSHALL - JIMI HENDRIX - ERYKAH BADU - MAYA ANGELOU - BENJAMIN BANNEKER - WILLIAM JACKSON - JOHN LEWIS - FATS WALLER - CRISPUS ATTUCKS - CHUCK BERRY - PHILLIS WHEATLEY - CAB CALLOWAY - GABRIEL PROSSER - MILES DAVIS - HATTIE MCDANIEL - DESMOND TUTU - TAHARQA - ALEXANDRE DUMAS - BESSIE COLEMAN - VERNICE ARMOUR - AUGUSTA SAVAGE - BILLIE HOLIDAY - SIDNEY POITIER - COLIN POWELL - U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA - U.S. FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA - LENA HORNE - NELSON MANDELA - CHARLES ALSTON - PETER SALEM - QUEEN AMINATU - PRINCE - GEORGE FOREMAN - CORETTA SCOTT KING - MENELIK I - MARIAN ANDERSON - SAVION GLOVER - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - AMIRI BARAKA - ALVIN AILEY - JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT - COUNTEE CULLEN - HANNIBAL BARCA - QUINCY JONES - THELONIOUS MONK - ABU BAKR II - NAT TURNER - ELLA FITZGERALD - SNOOP DOGG - PAUL ROBESON - JOHN COLTRANE - AARON DOUGLAS - JULIAN BOND - PEARL BAILEY - MICHAEL JACKSON - PAPS SINGLETON - JOHN SINGLETON - TEWODROS II - ASA PHILIP RANDOLPH - SUNDIATA KEITA - W.E.B. DU BOIS - HARRIET JACOBS - DAVID WALKER - HENRY OSSAWA TANNER - EMMIT TILL - HIRAM RHODES REVELS - MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE - ALICE WALKER - LEO AFRICANUS - NEFERTITI - NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA ANN JAMES - NAT LOVE - MAULANA KARENGA - CORNEL WEST - ARTHUR ASHE - ZARA YAQOB - LOUIS ARMSTRONG - MOLEFI ASANTE - BUSTA RHYMES - ELIZABETH CATLETT - AUGUST WILSON - FRANCIS HARPER - IDA B. WELLS - WHITNEY YOUNG - MOS DEF - SHIRLEY CHISOLM - RALPH ELLISON - EDMONIA LEWIS - OBA EWUARE - JEAN BAPTISTE DU SABLE - TALIB KWELI - JACK JOHNSON - GREGORY HINES - HAILE SELASSIE - JAMES VAN DER ZEE - LIONEL HAMPTON - PRINCE HALL - ALTHEA GIBSON - HURBERT JULIAN - RUBY DEE - JAMES BROWN - BARBARA JORDAN - GWENDOLYN BROOKS - MUHAMMAD ALI - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - ASKIA MUHAMMAD - BILL PICKETT - CHADWICK BOSEMAN - ROMARE BEARDEN - SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN - ARTURO SCHOMBURG - SPIKE LEE - MARVIN GAYE - PHARRELL WILLIAMS - MATTHEW HENSON - CARL LEWIS - CLEOPATRA VII - MARTIN DELANY - HENRY LOUIS GATES - CHARLES DREW - JEAN TOOMER - OSCAR MICHEAUX - MARTIN LAWRENCE - TONI MORRISON - LORRAINE HANSBERRY - COMMON - NIKKI GIOVANNI - KWAME NKRUMAH - HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET - JAMEL SHABAZZ - QUEEN NZINGA - KATHERINE JOHNSON - NEIL DEGRASS TYSON - LEVAR BURTON - BLACK PANTHERS - GRANVILLE T. WOODS - HALE WOODRUFF - ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. - WYNTON MARSALIS - BRADFORD MARSALIS - TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE - EDDIE MURPHY - HATSHEPSUT - KATHERINE DUNHAM - PAUL MOONEY - BENJAMIN E. MAYS - ROY WILKINS - MARY CHURCH TERRELL - JA RODGERS - SIMONE BILES - JAMES MCCUNE-SMITH - KWAME TURE - HENRY MCNEAL TURNER - DAVE CHAPPELLE - MIRIAM MAKEBA - OW GURLEY - SAMUEL L. JACKSON - MICHAEL JORDAN - SPENCER WILLIAMS - DOROTHY WEST - RICHARD WRIGHT - ANGELA BASSET - ERIKA ALEXANDER - OSEI TUTU - ANGELA DAVIS - JAMES WELDON JOHNSON - WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER - BLANCHE BRUCE - GUION BLUFORD - KENNETH CHENAULT - LEBRON JAMES - WALTER WHITE - SHAKA ZULU - KENDRICK LAMAR - PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR - HARRIET TUBMAN - RONALD MCNAIR - HERBIE HANCOCK - BAYARD RUSTIN - HUBERT HARRISON - CLAUDE MCKAY - RAY CHARLES - FANNIE LOU HAMER - U.S. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS - NELLA LARSEN - JAMES BALDWIN - AMENHOTEP III - CHINUA ACHEBE - JESSE JACKSON - SATCHEL PAIGE - CHARLES MINGUS - ANNA JULIA COOPER - MARCUS GARVEY - DENMARK VESEY - JACKIE ROBINSON - MIKE TYSON - DAVID FAGEN - CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON - RAMSES THE GREAT - P.B.S. PINCHBACK - GARRETT MORGAN - HANK AARON - BOOKER T. WASHINGTON - LENNY KRAVITZ - FREDERICK DOUGLASS - AHMAD BABA AL-TIMBUKT - U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MAXINE WATERS - RICHARD ALLEN - ASSATA SHAKUR - ARTHUR LEE - WILLIAM “BILL” HENRY COSBY JR. - BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN - MOS DEF - ANDREW YOUNG - SELMA BURKE

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - AKHENATEN - SOJOURNER TRUTH - ARCHIBALD MOTLEY - BENJAMIN O. DAVIS SR. - KEHINDE WILEY - CETSHWAYO KAMPANDE - AMINATTA FORNA - AUDRE LORDE - DEBBIE ALLEN - AMOS WILSON - ALMA THOMAS - BELL HOOKS - AVA DUVERNAY - BARABARA CHASE-RIBOUD - ARNA BONTEMPS - JIM BROWN - GORDON PARKS - PEARL BAILEY - KIAH DUGGINS - BEHANZIN HOSSU BOWELLE - MEDGER EVERS - MALCOM X - LEWIS LATIMER - NARMER MENES - ALICIA KEYS - IMHOTEP - ELLA BAKER - KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR - DOROTHY HEIGHT - RALPH BUNCHE - RICHARD PRYOR - THUTMOSE - FRANTZ FANNON - DIANA ROSS - NORMAN LEWIS - DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS - MARIAN ANDERSON - PHYLICIA RASHAAD - ALEXANDRE DUMAS - OUTKAST - GWENDOLYN BROOKS - AARON DOUGLAS - DENZEL WASHINGTON - HALLE BERRY - RUBY DEE - JAMES VAN DER ZEE - JEAN BAPTISTE DU SABLE - PAUL CUFFEE - OSSIE DAVIS - JAY-Z - MARY ELIZA MAHONEY - NICHELLE NICHOLS - WILLIAM STILL - DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - INDIA.ARIE SIMPSON - ABDOULAYE SADJI - ROBERT DUNCANSON - SUNNI ALI - ARCHIE SHEPP - ABSALOM JONES - IDA B. WELLS - BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS - JA RODGERS - VIRGIL ABLOH - ABU BAKR II - LOIS MAILOU JONES - AMIRI BARAKA - NAT LOVE - ADDISON SCURLOCK - KOBE BRYANT - JILL SCOTT - BILLIE HOLIDAY - ALICE WALKER - BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS - MARY CHURCH TERRELL - CHARLES WHITE - CHADWICK BOSEMAN - JUBILEE DAY - MUHAMMAD ALI - MATTHEW HENSON - CHESTER HIMJES - ALBERT AYLER - BETYE SAAR - DUTTY BOUKMAN - NAT TURNER - ALTHEA GIBSON - JAMES ARMISTEAD LAFAYETTE - PETER SALEM - SERENA WILLIAMS - TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE - BEN OKRI - CRISPUS ATTUCKS - STEVIE WONDER - COCO GAUFF - JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES - BUCHI EMECHETA - JOHN FOX - FATS JENKINS - EULACE PEACOCK - SOL BUTLER - DEHART HUBBARD - HENRY O FLIPPER - SAM LANGFORD - MARSHALL “MAJOR” TAYLOR - JOHN SINGLETON - JACK JOHNSON - FRED V. CHERRY - DIANE LINDSAY - WILLIAM “BILLY” LEE - TUSKEGEE AIRMEN - WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL - OSCAR MICHAEUX - BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR. - JOHN LAWSON - BILL GOINES - SAMORY TOURE - MENELIK II - BLACK PANTHERS - YOSEF BEN-JOCHANNAH - JAMES MONROE TROTTER - CHARLES REMOND DOUGLAS - DORIE MILLER - WILLIAM H. CARNEY - ZORA NEALE HURSTON - HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. - MARCIA ANDERSON - CHARLOTTE HAWKINS BROWN - NEEDHAM ROBERTS - CLARENCE SASSER - LT. COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG - ABDELKA DER ELL DJEZAIRI - LESTER WALTON - SEPTIMA POINSETTE CLARK - T.G. STEWARD - MICHELE S. JONES - WILLIAM THOMPSON - FANNY JACKSON COPPIN - EMMETT J. SCOTT - VERNON BAKER - ELIZABETH EVELYN WRIGHT - MOLEFI KETE ASANTE - BENJAMIN E. MAYS - JAMES H. HARRIS - SAMUEL GRAVELY JR. - DENNIS BELL - WHITNEY HOUSTON - BERNIE MAC - MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER - QUEEN LATIFA - JOY ANGELA DEGRUY - CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS

As a part of our BLACK BRILLIANCE project, we’re striving to develop artworks, content and media to further showcase and celebrate those individuals that have helped to make African Americans, Africans, Hispanics, Black and Brown People and Communities of Color, Ethnicity and Culture powerful and significant. The above list will be used as our guide for what we plan to develop.

As contributing to our NūHUMAN PROJECT, we believe that the effort of Art to encourage and influence growth and innovation, we believe that a healthy review and reflection upon the past is important. As we compel each other to move towards newer forms of identity thru growth and innovation, they must come from while resonating within an appreciation and celebration of those who came before and paved a way.

CONNECTED: ALL THAT IS AND ENCOMPASSES BLACK BRILLIANCE.

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WORKING OUT A NEW SCHEDULE.

August 18, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Despite it all—whatever is going on—my goal—OUR goal—is to continue on. We will continue on!

In recent weeks we’ve seen a constant sense of stagnation and a lack of planned progress and projects. For many reasons, we’ve had to pause on things to give attention to other matters but now we’re working out a new schedule to increase our activities. We want to better engage our communities given the current situations of things. What we understand is that the purpose of chaos is to bring about order and so—while we haven’t produced much lately for the lack of attention and applied energies—we’re developing a new schedule of activities to keep us focused. Discipline and order. That’s what we’re putting forward right now.

SUNDAY - WEEKLY PLANNING & ADMIN

Weekly Task and Time Planning and Management
Website Update & Content Development
Social Media Management

MONDAY - NEXT WEEK PREP & PRE-PLANNING & ADMIN

Next Week Task and Time Pre-planning and Mangaement
Continued Website Update & Content Development
Continued Social Media Management

TUESDAY - SERVICE FULFILLMENT

Service or Project Activity

WEDNESDAY - SERVICE FULFILLMENT

Service or Project Activity

THURSDAY - ART DEVELOPMENT

Service or Project Activity

FRIDAY - ART DEVELOPMENT

Service or Project Activity

SATURDAY - ART DEVELOPMENT

Special Projects Activities

Our revisions to scheduling and planning are rooted in our commitment to producing works. Whether sellable or not, our goal is to continue to contribute to our communities and the larger art worlds for People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture. Artworks will continue to be published and managed in accordance to this established schedule and organizational plan. Additionally, this schedule will supplement the Weekly and Quarterly Themes plans as well. This schedule is always eligible and susceptible to update and revision. This current structure does stand as current.

The mission isn’t to stay relevant. The mission is to continue to Live. Living is to Create!

What it means to create is to expand upon your presence, the presence of your soul, your existence, your presence, your journey, your story.

Play with Life because Life should have Meaning. Additing meaning, purpose and definition is to Grow!

THE FEED: COMMUNITY

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FROM BEGINNING TO END!

August 15, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

It’s all a process and some things just take time.

Often times there’s the inclusion of conversations within the planning and development processes of some projects and works while others are the sole domain of me, Liam Ian. The idea is to stay true to the identity of Liam Ian as much as possible keeping with a specific and targeted focus of creativity across the creative categories; Art, Design and Photography. Sometimes journal writing and a review of the current societal status and the associated situations down to very personal thoughts and ideas on what to communicate, there is thoughtfulness applied within the process that cannot be replaced.

As I’ve taken time to have written more and explore my creativity thru poetry, I’ve found a sense of self that I lost long ago. At time and place where I dreamt of all I would do because of all I would have. Young and passionate and in despair and need. Angry yet wanting to stay honest and true. Aspiring to become something beyond complicated and difficult but sophisticated and nuanced. I found myself looking back upon myself because I’ve had to reckon the newer ideas of my mortality and the possible returning limits on being not only “Black” but also Human.

The urgency I feel now is more about moving beyond the issues that have served to confine me and to reach my very personal ideas of my Higher Self—my Sovereign Self. As I’ve given attention to the maters of who I have been to become who I need to be, I’ve come to a place of greater understanding of what I believe my purpose is and what my existence is for; a journey of discovery. I am an aspect of the Living Universe looking back upon itself to learn itself even more. Creativity is the conduit for which I am to live.

CONNECTED: FROM BEGINNING TO END!

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THE CIRCLE

August 05, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP

While being an Artist and Entrepreneur I have—WE have—the responsibility to help and assist others to not only thrive but to also survive. As business (and capitalism) is the primary language and foundation of the modern world, it’s important that individuals—ALL individuals—are capable to take advantage of opportunities as well as create opportunities for others. In this time where inequality, fascism and racism are reaching newer kinds of levels clamoring to prevail within the world, as artists and entrepreneurs we believe in the capacity of all individuals to create better worlds.

JOIN US IN SHARING RESOURCES TO KEEP OTHERS CREATIVE AND EMPOWERED!

CONNECTED: THE CIRCLE

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YES! FINALLY CATCHING UP!

August 03, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE FOCUS IS THERE AND WE’RE EXCITED!

As we get back to to a place of creating to encourage and inspire, we’re motivated by matters of the day to ramp up our activities. As usual we’re creating to impact others and so what we’re creating is to help educate of and combat the advent and progress of systems that would diminish if not destroy the intellectual and artistic prominence of People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture as significant contributors to impacting the future and the world.

BLACK BRILLIANCE

While this project does take some time and effort to align the right ideas, concepts, principles, values, vision and intention, we cannot forget about the urgency to just create in and for it. The process of doing something with purpose and meaning can sometimes become a debilitating process. Sometimes in trying to research and define and apply deeper aspects to the work, sometimes you just must get to it and get it done.

Black Brilliance is not just a showcase of imagery to symbolize Black and Brown People, nor just their existence and progress throughout and beyond oppression and suppression, detriment, distraction, distortion and destruction, it is a project to remember, appreciate and celebrate while encouraging and inspiring within illustrating and narrating for the future.

CONNECTED: YES! FINALLY CATCHING UP!

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USING ART TO RESTRUCTURE & RE-ORGANIZE!

July 17, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THRU OUR PROJECTS, WE’RE CONNECTING TO HELP DEVELOP CONTENT THAT WILL EDUCATE AND INFORM.

We’re using Ai to help inform and imagine new physical art pieces. Based upon our slogan and mantra of “Intelligence. Ethnicity. Innovation.”, this year’s theme of “Change. Art. Social Justice.” and the primary TLP “BLACK BRILLIANCE”, we’re continuing to develop projects that are rooted in the ideas of Black and Brown Unity, Peace and Sovereignty.

Informed ideas thru realizing concepts with more than Pinterest and other social media platforms. With the inclusion and integration of Ai established imagery in project development there comes a greater level of consciousness and awareness in developing ideas with greater purpose and meaning.

CONNECTED: USING ART TO RESTRUCTURE & RE-ORGANIZE!

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tags / ART, DESIGN, Ai ART, Ai Integration, Ai Art Integration, Digital Art, Conceptual Art, Concepts & Ideas

MAKING MONEY

July 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WHAT I DO TO MAKE MY MONEY.

This is not just about Art. It’s not just about Design. It ain’t just about Photography. It most certainly isn’t just about Entrepreneurship. This is about the ability to build, establish, cultivate and maintain wealth. The game I’m playing is most certainly about making money to make and achieve other things. Goals and milestones. The goal is to be an affective and impactful influencer within my communities and the larger societies.

If nothing else, I strive to stand on my Personal Truth and Agenda. I strive to stand firm on my spiritual core and beliefs incorporated with an informed outlook of this modern world to create.

ART, DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY ARE ONE THING…COACHING, CONSULTING AND INVESTING ARE ANOTHER.

As well as finding new streams of income based upon what assets we currently have, we also provide Private Coaching and Consulting. The point is to not only leverage your knowledge with what we have in hard assets but soft ones as well. One-on-one personal relationships are key. We’ve been in business for over 3 years now with over 10 years of entrepreneurial activity under our belts, we’re continuing to position in as many spheres as possible and that includes helping others to navigate the modern day and sidestep issues and obstacles we’ve already encountered.

A Strategic Mindset Shift

Being an Artist can sometimes be a daunting thing to be. Especially within this modern day where hyper-creativity is the demand, the transition from Artist to Entrepreneur can be overwhelming. In order to making that transition even possible there must be a shift in ones mindset—a dynamic paradigm shift. Here’s a sample of our 7 Tips we live by for Artists to Make Money as Entrepreneurs:

1. Think Like a Business, Not Just a Brand

Shift your mindset from *"how do I get noticed?"* to *"how do I create value?"*

Artists often get stuck in the loop of visibility over viability. Start treating your art like a business: identify your market, price your work sustainably, and understand that consistent revenue comes from structure—not just exposure.

2. Offer Services, Not Just Products

Don’t just sell art—solve problems.

Graphic design, portrait commissions, album covers, book illustrations, set design, event installations—there’s always a service that fits your skillset. Package your offerings and market them directly to communities and clients who *need* what you can do.

3. Build an Email or Text-Based Client List

Social media followers are flaky. A list is power.

Use workshops, exhibitions, vendor tables, or community events to collect emails and numbers. Then follow up with offers, availability, or exclusive opportunities. Keep your list warm with behind-the-scenes peeks, studio updates, or early access to new releases.

*Subscribe to our private Coaching and Consulting platform, THE CIRCLE, to continue reading.

THE CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP

CONNECTED: MAKING MONEY

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CONTINUING TO DEVELOP MY THEORIES & PHILOSOPHIES!

July 15, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Directly from Liam Ian.

As I’ve taken time to ponder over the Artwork we’re striving to create, I’ve also had to mull over what its all supposed to mean in this modern world with all the current and modern issues of the day. Racism and an oppression of Brown people in America. The dismantling of democracy within a place that had its beginning in the enslavement and degradation of others. The rise of technologies running parallel with the apparent rise of fascism and authoritarianism. The reversion of African American progression within American society with an almost equal distortion of progressive principles and values. I’ve been pondering over these things.

Today I stand ready to continue the journey and endeavor of creating—creating with purpose and meaning. the mission isn’t just to create but to create with conscience and intention. A reflection of who we are as Black and Brown People and a blatant concern and interest for who should become into and for the future.

INTELLIGENCE. ETHNICITY. INNOVATION.

It’s all fundamental to who we are and what we should and must even become. It’s too not important and essential to acknowledge the past—that which has profoundly made us who we are—but the hope and potential of how we shall shape the future. While—as the primary Artist and Entrepreneur—it’s my job to set the tone, vision, mission and direction for the enterprise, I’m striving also to stay honest and true to who I am and those experiences that have made and shaped me with a pure intention for addressing the future.

As social media has become a cornerstone of identity and culture nowadays, I believe People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture must not sign our souls away for the hope of becoming more. We must move beyond the confines of the definitions and expectations of this world to get back to more natural paradigms and perspectives.We’ve lost our connections to spirituality and nature in favor of commercialization and capitalism. As I envision a world for People of Color that is stepped in spirituality and community, I also see the presence of nature and technology to compel us towards greater and greater goals and objectives.

In creating lately, here are the ideas, concepts, theories and philosophies I’ve been playing around with;

Something Like Afrofuturism

Reimagining the future through Black and Brown cultural lenses by blending ethnicity, science fiction, spirituality, history with African diasporic knowledge, wisdom, aesthetic, and empowerment. I believe that the facts of the designed and applied torment and struggle of the African American—including those within the them—help to illuminate and justify the speciality of who and what we are therefore to serve as the call to rise rather than submitting to an ever strategic diminishment and fall. - This includes and builds upon the use of symbolism, fashion-inspired, and tech-infused imagery that highlights African American (Black and Brown) identity and resilience with an intention for what was the past to inform the future. Stylized portraits and speculative design that projects the power, possibility and potential promise of impactful Black and Brown Futures.

Sankofa Principle (from Akan Philosophy)

“Go back and get it” — Looking to the past to inform the future (*…while using the ideas of the future to appreciate and celebrate the past). We must encourage retrieving the forgotten or suppressed while embarking on the journey into the undiscovered country that is the future. African, Latino and even Asian motifs, patterns and historical references in modern urban art and design. The use of photography to draw parallels or illuminate contrasts between past struggles and current realities. - Ancestral memory, cyclical time, cultural continuity and historical wisdom.

Music & Hip-Hop Aesthetic

Anchored in urban expression, the hip-hop aesthetic is rebellious, rhythmic, and raw often shaped by struggle, resistance and community storytelling. - The incorporation of graffiti styles, remix culture, streetwear, dance and lyrical themes mixed with an anticipation of what’s to come in the future. Visual sampling—like layering photos or design elements—as metaphor and message.

Critical Race Theory in Visual Culture

Race and systemic power influence representation. Identity and access or the lack thereof to the resources and means to resisting stereotypes and the offering or presentation of new narratives. - The effort is to create work that continues to challenge racial tropes and stereotypes while centering on Black and Brown humanity, nuance and complexity. To highlight systems of inequality and associated traumas without reducing subjects to trauma by being culturally to universally encouraging and empowering. - Representation, resistance, systematic critique, truth-telling, and expansive dialogue on the potential to affect the future.

Continuing With An Abstract Application

At a foundational level, I’m continuing to work with an abstract mindset therefore creative direction. What I’ve observed about this modern day is an over-indulgence on the physical form for and of People of Color in artwork and media. Because I believe there’s something substantial about “the abstract”—relying on the viewer to establish, create and extract their own ideas and concepts—there’s more room to encourage, inform and inspire deeper levels of thought and critical analysis. The incorporation of ideas and themes within creating abstract art compels me and any artist to think more creatively and intellectually with greater meaning and appreciation for the viewer to be their own potential creator.

CONTINUING WITH OUR PROJECTS!

We won’t be hinder by these matters of the day—we will continue on with the projects we’ve laid out . . . and more if needed and the opportunities suggest. As we further develop, we will push forward in developing works, products and services to encourage, inspire and empower. We’re not done because we’ve just begun! I am and we are LIAM IAN™.

Check our Projects List HERE!

CONNECTED: CONTINUING TO DEVELOP MY THEORIES & PHILOSOPHIES!

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tags / Art, Art Theory, Artistic Theory, Creativity, Theory, Philosophy, Artistic Philosophy, Projects, 2025, 2025 Projects

RESTART!

July 14, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Life happens. Life happens…but you don’t give up. You don’t stop. You don’t quit!

After a certain hiatus, we’re striving to make a strong come back.

Having already moved out of the Design Quarter into the Photography, we’re making efforts to make up for lost time. The crunch isn’t to gain work but the stay active in creating. As our custom products and IP are dependent on staying creative, we don’t want to skip over things within our plans. We just want to make up for what was missed.

As usual, our focus is on developing product and services that cater to our communities—those of People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture.

Since we now have the time to focus our efforts again, we’re getting on it! Back to . . . “BLACK BRILLIANCE!”

Not only are we striving to bring and offer the BEST of who we are within Black and Brown Culture, we’re looking to share those that embody the same. Intelligence, Ethnicity and Innovation, we believe in encouraging the best and most positive of what it is to be modern, urban, African American, Hispanic American and everything else that shaped promise and progressiveness within the world.

CONNECTED: RESTART!

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tags / New Beginnings

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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