"Painting Portrait In Primaries:" primary colors, red, blue and yellow; the color combinations created are infinite. Primary colors placed together influence each other, trigger a mix in the eyes of the viewer to produce secondary colors, hues, weight, movement and expressions.

The painting highlights some of the struggles Fredrick Douglas endured working as a slave. The background shows people working in a cotton field. Not unlike those that Frederick Douglas worked in and people he might have worked among. The colored dots represent the elements of the earth, rising up from the environment from which this man came.

Colors add emotions, and captures the essence of the man.