At the time I was excited to get the call, but everything in my body said say no
I was really excited about it for sure -so totally different reactions
Shall we?
1, 2, 3
Started using the mask as a symbol of just like craziness of being free of becoming something else I
I started creating these large black light paintings somehow the neon colors allow me to express myself like in uh,
Metaphysical way. It got well-received, and it started kind of calling me black light king
Um, honestly, I'm a little nerve-racked
This is just, completely outside my comfort zone, which is the reason I said yes, but mm
I think I would call myself like a contemporary wildlife painter
I kind of take the animal out of its environment and put it on a background
That's a little more abstract when I was younger
That's all I used to do is I used to draw animals and I was completely fascinated by animals
And I still have like a deep love of you know
Everything on four feet.
Um, I know we're gonna paint something. I know I'm gonna meet another artist and
I have no idea who that person is or what they do. I mean, they could be a tattoo artist for all I know
Hi, how are you?
What's your name? Hey, may, what's your name?
Oh, ni-nice to meet you, I'm black light. Black light, ok
Wow nice to meet you now. I'm very curious about what you do
Yeah, this is my
My studio what I do is like. I'll do regular colors and then afterwards
I'll add neon colors on top of it. It works with the glasses - there's glasses. Yeah, jebel. Oh my gosh, okay
*laughing*
No way!
Oh my gosh
What about you, what kind of work do you do?
Um, I am a contemporary wildlife painter, so I paint animals.
Okay, that's cool. It's still sick. That's cool though because if you paint animals then we can do something with dope.
yeah, um, yeah okay
Because I have some ideas I'm thinking oh you could paint the animal and I could paint the spirit of the animal
I love that I didn't go like super psychedelic with it
Yeah, you know and you can go like kind of like blend into the animal yeah, I'm into the animal yeah
Okay, what if we did something like?
Like coming around the piece by this guy over here
Yeah, so like okay like for example like this will be your bird right here, right?
I'm nervous about creating work that's good without my normal process
There is a possibility that I will totally fail, but I'm here
Hey black light,
You want to look at something, right?
So it's 8 by 11. I didn't really know what to expect say the truth
I was thinking okay is it gonna work or their Styles gonna mesh and of course?
Personality-wise you know however. I was really optimistic
Algright, go for it
Let's see. I need to like I need to good start I
I had a dream last night about Ravens
I've wanted to paint some recently you know he had some birds and some of the work that he showed me
And I just thought well what if we worked on
kind of a raven portrait together.
I think part of how we wanted to collaborate is to both retain our styles
But somehow find a way to have it integrate so that it looked like a piece that was collaborated
But not super separate.
On-Once we got these ideas going it was just they were just like water
it was
we were just
streamlined so I really like that process of being able to on the spot create something and her ideas were really open to mine.
I think he has a really good vision and imagination
you know
Even though our work is totally different we have a similar sensibility.
I don't know a little hard to put into words. I think it's just more of a vibe.
I feel that we uh, managed to braid two styles together and make it work, that's really rewarding in itself
So on your left you have black blinking when your right you have someone over
Hi everybody oh
Yeah, well I don't know about you
But when I got the call actually the call the email and the Instagram message from Amari at the time
I was excited to get the call but
Everything in my body said say no
Because it made me so nervous you so you're you were looking forward to it. You weren't into it. Yeah
I was more nervous about the project itself. You know like yeah a lot like uh
Hard working. But anyhow I it was great working with you. I had a lot of fun, and I learned a lot so
shall we
Ready? one, two, three
*laughing* *cheering from crowd*
So we both kind of tried to focus on our strengths you know so I did a more realistic version
And he did this amazing psychedelic spiritual version. Yeah, we like the Raven because he had like it's like metaphysical
uh we thought about rebirth a lot and um
It like dying and being reborn into a spirit animal, and then you know. Kind of like two different worlds
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Thank you for watching another episode of between worlds from Jubilee
I'm Amar'e
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