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Why Nature is Already Abstract
This blog post humorously chronicles the creation of “Autumn Flares,” an abstract landscape that mirrors the fiery energy of fall. Emphasizing color, texture, and the importance of not copying nature too literally, it highlights how abstract art can transcend the physical world and evoke profound emotional responses.
The Raw Energy of Black and White Animation
Have you ever noticed how sometimes less is actually more? That's how I feel about my black and white animations. I started creating these surfer animations because I got tired of color palettes giving me existential crises—like, is this blue-green or green-blue? Who knows? Not me! So, I went all in on black and white. When that surfer girl catches a wave in my animation, and you can feel the momentum as her body shifts, I live for those moments. It's like I've bottled pure movement and emotion with just some black ink. There's a raw energy in simple lines that fancy colors and textures just can't touch.
When Painting a Landscape See the Land Differently
From the Earth strips away color to reveal the raw patterns of farmland. Black and white allow the lines, contrast, and textures to shine, capturing the rhythm of row crops, the weight of the sky, and the structure of the land in its purest form. The absence of color makes the landscape's structure more powerful, with farm fields stretching to the horizon, their lines pulling the eye forward. The sky, scraped and textured, mirrors the roughness of the land, presenting farmland through form rather than hue. Painting this piece felt like working the land itself, with a palette knife scraping and layering the paint.