this painting was just done at its second layer, but I already managed to put the light and dark area. the picture was taken from imported magazine. why I took my resource from magazine, first I didn’t have guts to paint from a real model yet because I’m afraid the result would be so different from the model, and secondly it easier to paint from a painting or a picture rather than a real live model.

I took this picture from jogja magazine, but this painting wasn’t finished yet but I’d already fallen in love with it.

the kebaya which was wear by the girl should have a transparent silhouette, although I’d never tried to paint like it before, and it’s the first time I try to paint the sky with clouds. so I like this painting cause I love to try some thing new.

when I wanted to learn more about lighting, I choose this painting because it had a good source of light and the direction of the light was came from 45 degrees, just like the light in the morning, and it’s my 4th painting.

this is my first painting, my teacher said your first painting would have the same face like the painter. well, did she look like me? I don’t know about it, but the gloomy face showed my mood when I was painting it, because I was so stressed out!

this painting was my second painting, the difficulty of this painting was the position of her hand,  I had to concentrate at the neck, arms and fingers. I thought I never done this painting but after a lot of trying and practicing then I can enjoy the result.

This is the biggest paint I ever done yet, it is 90cm tall and 120cm wide, it took about 2 month for me to finish this paint.

I felt every exhausted but I was satisfied with the result. the background of the actual painting was the borobudur temple, but I changed it with the balinese temple

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this paint was half finish, you’ll see that rama and shinta don’t wear their necklaces and I haven’t paint the pattern of the sarong yet. this is the hardest paint I ever done yet, perhaps, because the picture of rama and shinta I took from Ramayana ballet show was very, very bad quality, I only used pocket digital camera, and the focus was blur so I had to invented the direction of light for this painting.

well, I had learn my lesson, next time when I want to paint, I have to know that I have a good resources of pictures

the girl on the painting was lying on the ground, I’d tried to put some light above her head so she looked more natural

This Javanese dancer I painted from picture that I took from ramayana ballet show in Jogja, central java

The girl was actually wearing casual cloth, but I preferred to paint it with balinese traditional sarong