By: Kelton Brooks Harmonic jazz instrumentals ricochet from canvas to canvas. Jade Cole positions a natural, full-spectrum light above an Andre 3000 picture she has been gazing at in her studio for hours. Cole is looking for the right brush since she knows she will paint with her first love. “I use color pastels and oil pastels,” Cole said. “But charcoal? That’s my baby right there. That’s the first thing I go to.” The details of the charcoal-drawn image of the “Roses” and “Ms. Jackson” rapper rivals a freshly printed polaroid-the faint shadow strands on his eyebrows, the creases in his […]
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