Tobias

Hello, I am a painter and ceramics artist. Lately I have been creating pointillist nature paintings, surrealist landscape paintings, and abstract nudes. For my pointillist works I start with close up photographs taken from nature. These are based on photos of animals, bugs, and plants. My artwork is about how having an appreciation for nature is actually a good thing. It is important to value nature in that without an appreciation for it we lack motivation to properly take care of it. My concept goes against ideas that loving nature is somehow the cause of mistreating it. In the pointillist nature paintings I create I aspire to illustrate the beauty and wonder found in nature. In the surrealist paintings I create I rely on pictures taken of interesting rock formations. My surrealist paintings vary in their themes. My focus in surreal artwork is that of the meanings found in dreams so each surreal painting that i create has a meaning. The abstract nudes that I paint also have beauty. They are cubist in how they are made however I work with line quality and mass gestures instead of cubes.