Family Project: 7 Years in Kuwait

We just started our family project: a watercolor journal for our 7 years in Kuwait. The whole family member will put their drawings & paintings, included our son's.



You can check our progress in Instagram with #7yearsinQ8 hashtag.

Starting The Cafe Painter Hashtag On Instagram

While we're in Jakarta, we don't have a proper & comfort studio to do some art & craft activities at home. So we think painting is one of the activities that doable outside with our children. Then we
start looking some nice & cool place, like coffee shop or cafe with big table, big window, good lighting. And we find some good place in Jakarta, like VIN+ in Pondok Indah Mall, LOT 9 in Bintaro sector 9,  Yesterday Lounge in Pangeran Antasari, Trafique in Hang Tuah, Anomali Coffee in Menteng and Pipiltin Cocoa in Panglima Polim.

A photo posted by Dita Wistarini (@ditut) on Dec 28, 2014 at 7:30pm PST

And we start to make the #cafepainter hashtag on Instagram and ask other people to join. Go get your portable painting tools, start painting in your favorite cafe and take the picture of the painting with the hashtag.

Dita's Watercolor Corner

3 Little Girls - 3602 × 2519 pixels 300dpi: $10  Buy Now

Bicycle Girl - 2949 × 2159 pixels 300dpi: $10  Buy Now

Cupcake Shop - 2231 × 3318 pixels 300dpi: $10  Buy Now

Owl Club - 2289 × 3480 pixels: $10  Buy Now

Secret Garden 2670 × 3602 pixels: $10  Buy Now

These are from Dita's watercolor corner. Now available for digital purchasing. Enjoy!

note: Requires PayPal account. For BCA transfer, please email to ditut(at)me(dot)com.

Polaroid SX-70 Model 3

The cheap model from Polaroid SX-70 line. Black plastic with porvair (not leather). The watercolor painting (size 2595 × 3128 pixels 300dpi) is available for digital purchasing $20, Buy Now.

More about SX-70 Model 3 here.

note: requires PayPal account. For BCA account please email us pinot(at)mac(dot)com.

Vintage Polaroid SX-70 OneStep

Another iconic retro-tech from the past: Polaroid SX-70 OneStep. Released in 1976 and became the most popular Polaroid product until mid 80s.

Available for download 21.6 x 23.57 cm (300 dpi): US$ 20 Buy Now

In Rupiah (via BCA) Rp 150000.

The process:

Email us if you want to purchase the arts. Requires Paypal or BCA.

Back To Watercolor

Weekend art with kids. After days with Wacom Inkling & MessagePad, it's good to be back with watercolor, the ultimate stress therapy.

Final artwork by Pinot (18 cm x 22 cm 150 dpi) is available for download: US$10


Email us if you want to purchase the arts. Requires Paypal or BCA.

Motion Graphic with Watercolor Mood

Remember when I posted about Photo-Watercolorizing project a month ago? So here it is. All of the elements were done with manual traditional & digital painting (with Wacom). Thanks to my wife, Dita, for her amazing food-photography :D

Watercolor From College

Watercolor paintings back in the college days in Bandung. Though they are all in tiny size, it's still printable on postcard size. Collect them, put in white simple frames then you can decorate your wall with it.

400 x 425 pixel 72 dpi

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600 x 780 pixel 72 dpi

500 x 482 pixel 72 dpi

600 x 344 pixel 72 dpi

450 x 513 pixel 72 dpi

500 x 657 pixel 72 dpi

500 x 366 pixel 72 dpi

600 x 773 pixel 72 dpi

Get all the digital scanned files for US$5 Buy Now

Digital & Analog Painting

My 6 years old daughter painting with Windsor & Newton paints on aquarelle paper.
While I'm painting on iPad with Nomadbrush, on Auryn Ink app, SketchBook Pro app & ArtRage app.
Another dimension of painting!

Review: The Nomadbrush here.

Camera: Canon 5D Mark II with 50mm ƒ1.4.
Software: FinalCut Pro with Magic Bullet Looks effects.

Challenge Myself: Painting When The Kids Around

Back in the college, watercolor painting was a sacred activity. It was a therapy, meditation, requires concentration & specific mood.

But now, is it possible for me to do it with 1 baby, 1 toddler & 1 kid around? Today, I challenge myself.

Option 1: Distracting the distraction

Much easier if I play movies & let the children watch it while I'm painting. But that's not the point. I don't want to create a virtual sphere with me inside & my family outside. And yet, children tend to get curious to the adult's activities, especially art & craft activities. I don't want to ignore their curiousity.

Option 2: Joining the distraction

I challenge myself by opening the door of my virtual sphere & let the children come inside & join me painting. We're painting in the living room, on a dinner table. We're sharing the paints & colors. The main distraction is coming from our 1,5 years old Neo. He really wants to join the fun with his sisters & dads. Sorry Neo, only milk & cookies for you this time. When you're a bit older, you can join the club!

It's fun actually. Though I need to give it a litte more time to get used to it. Of course, it depends on the project. The simple the better.
And this is different from what I did in the college, because being family man itself is a new art.

Painting Our Family - an experiment with Sherlock Holmes end title style

When the first time I saw Sherlock Holmes end title, I was like "This is the one what I've been looking for!"
Well, I was looking for a style that combine live-action footage, painting & motion graphic & that end title inspires me.

So I decide to make a 'rip-off' style from it. I have no problem with the drawing itself, but the problem is in the ink-smearing motion effect.

Fortunately I found this website with tutorial & material about the same style, Jake & Dan. So I grab the paper texture file, the smearing ink blot etc from them.

Next step, I pick some of video footages from our Canon EOS 500D. Then in Corel Painter X, I draw the outline & put some hatches in different layers. I keep the original image from the video footage for color effect, later in After Effects.







Then in AfterEffects, using the smearing-ink material from -- as Luma Matte for each layer of my drawings & apply BCC Watercolor in the original image.





In the final composition, all the layers are in 3D mode because I want to add depth (3D environment) & put a camera with slow track movement.









I pick a beautiful music from http://opsound.org The Blossoming Lilies by The Orchestral Movement of 1932 as the soul of the motion.

So here it is. Enjoy

Painting My Family [Final Version] on Vimeo.

Hardware: Canon 500D, MacPro, MacMini, Wacom Bamboo
Software: AfterEffects, Painter XI

Aquarelle Day

Painting! Painting! Arwen & Leia joining me for watercolor painting. Messy but colorfully fun!

Aquarelle from Pinot on Vimeo.

Shot with Canon EOS 500D & 50mm ƒ1.4 lens with 4x macro filter. The video was shot with manual aperture (ƒ1.4) in FLAT Picture Style & color corrected in Final Cut Express with Magic Bullet Looks.

Playing with iPhone AutoDesk SketchBook Mobile

I don't like painting on iPhone with any painting apps. Feel awkward scrubbing my finger on its tiny screen. But then, I try this AutoDesk SketchBook (iTunes link) and it suits with my finger. Of course it takes time to get used to painting on iPhone with this app. But it's just.. well.. feel right. Here are some works from my iPhone.







More about iPhone AutoDesk SketchBook
Free AutoDesk SketchBook Mobile iTunes link
$2.99 AutoDesk SketchBook Mobile iTunes link

IF Adapt

Cathy the cactus busy painting herself
Trying to adapt with her friends

Artist : Pinot
Software : CorelPainter X
Hardware : Wacom Intuos, MacPro

IF Cracked

Elly the elephant is such a wimp
Even she's the elephant king's daughter

She is just too afraid to swim
Sooner or later,
The crack will help her

Artist : Pinot
Software : CorelPainter X
Hardware : Wacom Intuos, MacPro

Lantern Painting

Bought this white lantern and get bored! So we did fun project in the weekend :).



Artist : Arwen & Leia

Colorful Couch

Bought the couch from IKEA....pretty boring with the plain white color!

So we had a crazy idea to make the couch looks bright and colorful. We let Arwen and Leia took part and free painting the couch as their liking.



Here it is........our new couch!



Artist : Pinot, Dita, Arwen and Leia
Tools : Textile Paint