Indonesian Arts & Cultures

Indonesian Artist : Hari Froyo

2011-11-23T10:32:00.003+07:00

Name : Hariyanto
Surename : Wu in Mandarin (Goh in Teochew dialect)

Calling Name : Hari Froyo
Born : 21 January 1987
Blood : B

Interests : Painting & Drawing, Singing, Fishing, Reading, Experimenting
Official Affiliation : IACC (Indonesia Arts & Cultures Community)
Social Network : Hari Froyo on Facebook
Hometown : Tanjungpinang City, Bintan Island, Riau Archipelago Province, Indonesia

Current Location : Tanjung Balai Karimun, Karimun Island, Riau Archipelago Province, Indonesia

Artworks :

At my living room

"Moonlight Valley" - Oil Colour on Canvas 2011

"Autumn" - Oil Colour on Canvas 2011

"Windmild" - Oil Colour on Canvas 2011

"The Four Reds" - Oil Colour on Canvas 2011

"Virtue of Being" - Oil Colour on Canvas 2011

Portrait of Christine (Jakarta) - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Hamster & Hamster - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Jocie - Pencils on A3 Paper 2011

JJ Lin - Pencils on A3 Paper 2011

Nurdin Basirun (Karimun Regent) - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Monica & Jesson (Tanjung Balai Karimun) - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Eme's (Malaysia) - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Qiang & His Girlfriend - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Lisa Lim (Tanjungpinang) - Pencils on A3 Paper

Hubertus & His Wife (Batam) - Oil Colour on Paper 2011

Please visit my facebook to see more galleries of my artworks

Dry Brush Techniques : Oil Colours On Paper (Part-2)

2011-11-19T13:13:00.006+07:00

After introducing about dry brush technique on the previous post, let's take a peak for how to do it :)

What we need :

Watercolour paper
Oil Colours (i'm using Marie's student grades, a very cheap paints)
Palette for mixing paints
Synthetic brusses, from point-type to make details & lines, till wide/big size for background
Photos for refferent
Pencils for pre-sketches
Kneaded eraser for highlights

This is what i'm using all the times. Cheap stuffs but usefull :D

I always starts from pre-sketch with H or HB pencil. Don't give too much pressure on the paper when we're sketching, or you'lll leave grooves on the paper.

After we're sure with the sketch, time to mix the colours. I'm starts from the eyes with point-typed brush. Remember, as we're doing it with dry brush, so don't give to much paint as we go. Do it slowly. Take the paints just a little bit with the tip of the brushes. Then rub the brushes on palette to wiped away the excessive paints. Paint it on the lines we made with pencil before.

Actually it's not much differents from other common techniques, just the paints are litte bit.

Paint a thin layer first, as we can add more if we're going to make it darker

I always do the 'lines' first before filling the larger spaces

Always start from outer/corner sides, then filled into wide areas

Save background for the last

Done and framed

This is portrait of Christine from Jakarta. Remember to changes our brusshes on the goes. Small brush for corners & narrow areas, and vice versa, bigger for wider spaces. For making highlights, use kneader eraser.

This dry brush techniques is a bit challenging for a newbie. So don't ever give up to practice more. Feel free to ask me on the comments corner if you got any questions :)

Dry Brush Techniques : Oil Colours On Paper (Part-1)

2011-11-19T12:40:00.010+07:00

I like to learn different forms of techniques to represented in many ways. I think, as an artist, we shouldn't trapped in just 1 or 2 ways. By mastering differents of techniques, we can express more, as some feelings inside, ideas, or whatever it is, may be displayed with more intense on some media, while in others it seen as 'nothing special'. That's why i'm keep on learning more.

One of the technique is dry-brush. We can do it eather with watercolours or oil colours. The key of this, as it's named, do it with dry (or almost dry) condition. If it's watercolours, keeps our paints away from water. But if oil paints, we can mix it with just a little-bit of medium, but keep it in 'almost dry' condition. Too much medium will ruin our artworks as it painted on paper surface. Some artist do it without mixing any medium. Try to practicing with different methots.

Let's see some of artworks below. Portraits below are painted with dry brush technique with oil-colours on paper.

'A Child' - Oil Colours On Paper
Hari Froyo - 2011

'Monica & Jesson' - Oil Colours On Paper
Hari Froyo - 2011

'Roborovski Hamster - Oil Colours On Paper (A3)
Hari Froyo - 2011

'Nurdin Basirun (Karimun's Regent) - Oil Colours On Paper
Hari Froyo - 2011

The second artworks (black & white) is using just only black colour to represented 'charcoal effect'. Some artist maybe think that pencils & charcoals are too dusty as it sometimes leave smudges on our artworks. This dry-brush techniques also solve this problem.

I knew this dry-brush technique from my friend, Fillardy Adzani (thanks so much, bro), when he shared a link about a dry-brush painter from Russia, Igor Kazarin. You can visit his site at Igor Kazarin's site to view his artworks.

For tips & tricks about dry brush, please visit the upcoming post at Dry Brush Techniques : Oil Colours On Paper (Part-2).

Cultures & Arts of Indonesia : Know More About Indonesia

2011-11-18T10:49:00.013+07:00

Dear visitors, welcome to our site.
This site provides a lot of articles about Indonesian visual artists, artworks, and a lot of background-cultures in Indonesia, the country which consist of 33 provinces and more than 300 tribes that living peacefully, with their own uniqueness of cultures and arts.

Basic informations about Indonesia can be found at wikipedia, and basic articles about cultures can be seen at wikipedia about Indonesian Cultures.

As an young artist and also the member of IACC (Indonesian Arts & Cultures Community), i'll keep this blog updated by making some interviews about Indonesian artists, artworks, exhibitions, and of course, unique custom-ceremonies or rituals that can only be found in Indonesia.

As for beginning, i'm going to share some of my artworks on the next post.

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