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sketches...

Christopher Basile's Blog — 30 September, 2015
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Here are a couple of quick self-portrait sketches Kartika made, one with glasses on and one without.  I believe that one of these sketches will be used as a cover or frontispiece for a Kartika biography that is planned for publication sometime in Holland (the author did the interviews with Kartika over a couple of weeks earlier this month).

And though it is not really a 'sketch' I think it is illuminating to see the 'Goats' painting in its earliest moments of creation, in contrast with the finished painting.

Finally, just for fun, I will also share a playful sketch I made at Kartika's house after-breakfast one morning. She commented: "You can draw. But why use a pencil? Why not use a pen?"

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with Kartika at Borobudur...

POSTED: 24 Sep 2015 - 12:18

Kartika at Borobudur KArtika

As a result of our 6-day visit to Borobudur Kartika completed 3 paintings, all portraying the 9th c Buddhist monument among lotus flowers, which is how she imagines it.

self portrait and miscellaneous cutaways...

POSTED: 11 Sep 2015 - 01:26

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The title says it all. I will just add regarding the "self portrait" -  Maybe it was because Kartika is getting a bit full of me pointing a camera at her all the time, but she announced that I should paint too, and I thought why not?

on the road with Kartika...

POSTED: 5 Sep 2015 - 23:51

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We are on a painting expedition moving between Borobudur and a hotel-restaurant called Puri Menoreh in Magelang. Borobudur because Kartika has never painted it before and she has long wanted to.

the documentary process...

POSTED: 2 Sep 2015 - 23:00

in front of the tugu in the centre of Yogya

Here is photo of me made by Mas Momi (Kartika's son-in-law, married to Lulu - a most capable and agreeable fellow) in front of the tugu in the centre of Yogya, with Hanuman, and an owl (a burung hantu = "ghostbird'') on my shoulder.

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