Basquiat similarly combined oil, pastel, and felt-tip pen or marker on paper and canvas, layering raw gestural marks with text and imagery to create energetic mixed media compositions. His intuitive approach to combining drawing and painting materials shares the same improvisational layering quality seen in this Kerwick piece.

As a contemporary British artist, Brown frequently works on paper combining oil and pastel to build complex layered surfaces with gestural energy similar to Kerwick's approach. Her works on paper demonstrate the same interplay between drawing and painting materials that defines this piece.

Condo regularly combines oil, pastel, and drawing media on paper to create figurative and expressive compositions that share the same layered mixed media sensibility as this Kerwick work. His contemporary practice of merging multiple mark making tools on paper produces a similarly dense and complex visual surface.