Night Owl effect and Art

There’s something different about the world after midnight—quieter, slower, more honest. Night Owl is about that space where distractions fade and instinct takes over. It’s the hum of a lamp, the smell of paint, and the feeling that time doesn’t exist the same way it does during the day. When everyone else is asleep, the mind gets louder in the best way.

Painting late at night becomes less about perfection and more about truth. It’s where ideas feel raw, unfiltered—where mistakes turn into direction instead of frustration. Night Owl captures that solitude and focus, the kind that only shows up when the world goes still. It’s not just about staying up—it’s about finding clarity in the dark.

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Artist: David Bornancin

Media: Acrylic Paintings

Style: Abstracts and Landscapes

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Transcript

Part One Nightowl

Part Two Hightowl

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I always talk about my night owl time, the my late nights. I'm up, I'm a night owl, I'm up, you know, 12 uh midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m. 3 a.m. and a lot of my creative ideas and a lot of my creative thoughts and and processes come together late at night. And the reason why I'm I'm looking at the screen is because the one thing that I enjoyed all my life is I used to travel all over the world. And I used to travel six and seven days a week for work. And I worked for some of the best software companies in the world, and I truly had a passion for what I did in the world of technology and software and AI and everything else, and security systems, and banking systems, and so forth. But what I'm really talking about here is my world of art and the art world and uh the artwork and the paintings and the designs and the creations that come together. And I could tell you when I used to fly real late at night, it'd be 11 p.m. and I'd be flying from one place to the other, six-hour flights, ten-hour flights, uh, twenty-hour flights, uh uh three-hour flights, whatever the case may be, and I'd be landing in an airport, and the pure silence of flying that late at night, and all the lights are off in the plane, and it's just an amazing experience because the creative mind, even if you're you know, sketching and drawing, and you you have your pad uh of paper and you're just drawing things out, and it's an amazing way to create, you know, this deep darkness and and silence and the ability to create magnificent art and flying with the best pilots in the world and flying every type of plane I've ever been on. The only thing I've never actually been on is fighter jets. And one day in my life, uh hopefully I'll get an opportunity to fly with a fighter pilot on an F-22 or an F-18 or an F-16 or an F 15 or an F 35, which would be amazing. I don't think they'd ever let you fly in an F 35. But flying at night and that silence and that creative process, and it all comes together and it's unreal. It's truly amazing.