Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color through staining; Thompson's humorous oil painting, The Golden Ass, features a more
traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage elements in his 2016 brown abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean
Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge abstraction and figuration in a collaged
face made up of many different harlequin features.