His first drawing was of his Grandmother’s 58 Chevy, bulletin boards in elementary,
school, then a cousin, etc.
Dilworth L. Thomas, born in Smoky Ordinary, (east of Lawrenceville), Virginia on
January 22, 1955, lived in NY, Washington DC, Hyattsville, MD, and now Woodbridge,
VA..
Attended Sturgeon Elementary School, Dolphin, VA; James Solomon Russell High
School, and Brunswick Senior High School, Lawrenceville, VA,; Strayer University,
Washington DC, and NOVA., Woodbridge, VA.
Drawing class in the 10 th grade, graphic at WMATA; DC, Cosmetologist; DC and VA.,
NOVA art Department..
Discovered the ability to capture moments in time, feelings, thoughts, beauty and biblical
verses and portraits by drawing..
Worked with medium of graphite pencil, crayon, charcoal, ink…from contour line into
chiaroscuro....with a splash of color to accentuate..
Focus; How would someone else see the work or like to see it but understand what they
do see is art..
When I look back and at that time I may have been thinking that I was having a bad day,
I look and see that it was a great day because it took that day to get to this day and I see
that I am Blessed and my best is yet to come!!!…Because love and true always wins and
are the most beautiful!
Biblicals at; Ebenezer BC, Woodbridge, Va: Piney Grove BC, Lawrenceville, Va.,
Bethany BC, Valentine, Va. and West Liberty UMC, Marriottsville, Md..
Drawings in many states and at friends…
Influences; Bibbs, Goodnight, Morrison, Picasso, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and various
artist, ...admires graffiti..