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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Painting on Ceramic Tile

Last July when Kelir (Indonesian Circle Illustrators) was having a Children's Illustrations Exhibition in Ganara Art Gallery, some friends and I had an opportunity to try "Painting on Ceramic" by Idyllic


It was totally new thing from all I'd learned. The ceramic tile can't "hold" the paint (like paper) for the tile has no pores at all. It was a glazed tile. So it seemed that the paint just slipped away. The colour will look stronger and darker after the firing, so we have to be careful in choosing the right colour. And if we paint a darker colour underneath a lighter one, after the firing the darker colour will revealed (except that was what we want).
Here what I paint before the firing process:

After the firing process:




Friday, September 09, 2016

Water Colour Illustration for an Anthropomorphic Children's Book


I love love Anthropomorphic stories for children. I don't know why. Maybe because I myself love nature so much. Here are some of my anthropomorphic illustrations in watercolour:
































































































































Thursday, September 08, 2016

Three Little Gnomes and One-bite Mystery Online Book Launch

Last August 17th, Rhonda Paglia, the author of  "Three Little Gnomes and One-bite Mystery" made an on line book launch by her FB page. And here's another song trailer, Nibbles McGibbles Marching Song, sung by her and guitar by her son, Tony Paglia.