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I illustrate my life in abstract ways
and repeating colors.

Okay - SO! Back again with a new blog - it’s been a while. Life has been quite eventful, but that is not what I want to chat about right now. I just finished a new piece - which is part of a series. The series is called Monocolor - and basically - they’re illustrations about themes going on in my personal life - illustrated in a very abstract way - constantly using the exact same color palette. This first piece I just finished is about love. How it’s something I keep buried deep down inside me - but once released - it flows and goes everywhere.

I hope you enjoy it - and please - visit my Behance page - or appreciate the project here.

For all those interested - the original linework was done in Illustrator - and I finished it in Photoshop.

Peace!

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Hide your
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And once again - I am back! I just relaunched my website after a long long long dreadful time. Yes - I admit - it was built with Indexhibit, and no - I am not ashamed about it! I believe that the whole hype of overly graphic fancy looking motion stuff has gone and died somewhere between then and now. I came to realise that I do not care much for it - I just want to show my work. If this is done in a very efficient clean simple way - why not? Some other great people using Indexhibit are; Stefan Lucut, Boompje and Punchdouble.

Anyway. While I was working on my website - I put a picture of myself up there on the front page. I previewed my site to a friend of mine - and he asked me why I felt the need to put a picture of myself up there. I never really stopped to realise that with almost every version of my website I did this. And while discussing it with him I discovered that I usually find it interesting to see the person behind the work and there for - perhaps people would have the same as me - wanting to see who is making all the stuff.

He simply replied that not having a picture - brought a whole mystery to it for him.
And besides - it’s all about the work.

Right?

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I love
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Pfoe. Okay so i doubt that anyone out there still reads a blog, but I decided it was time for a restyle and an update.
So let me update!

I have applied for an internship at Boompje, and I will keep you posted on the updates. I would love to run my internship there, it would be such a great learning experience. Perhaps get a bit more into 3D visuals and motion graphics? Hm. We shall see!

Other then that, I moved from Utrecht to Rotterdam, into my own studio. It’s not a huge house, but perfect for one person. Own kitchen, shower and toilet, and no roommates. Great stuff. The whole house was renovated before I moved in, so freshly painted, new floors, and the best thing about it is that I have hot water whenever! No more boilers! Woohoo. It took me some time to settle in, but I am getting around to it.

I have been running behin in school, the motivation for it has gone and died somewhere along the process. It’s a very hard time right now, I feel like I am not being stimulated to any real development in my work, and we are solely trained to do whatever a client wants, instead of ALSO being trained to develop our personal qualities. I find this highly dissapointing. Never the less, I promised my parents I would graduate, so I must continue on this path. In October I am going to apply for the Willem De Kooning Academy, I hope I get accepted.

And other than that, I have been updating frequently on Behance.net. I should be having my website up and running by now, but I am out of inspiration. I have been running around like a chicken with no head trying to get everything done, and not getting to do what I WANT to do, so there for my site is currently still not there. But I have been actively updating on Behance.net and you can check out my profile here.

Well that is all for now I suppose.
Have a great day!
Tarona