Sunday, March 26, 2017

TEPI SAWAH - Acrylic on canvas, 10x20 inches, 2017


A typical Indonesian panorama of sawah (rice field). This particular scene was inspired from the view from my favorite brunch cafe beside the sawah in Bali.

Friday, March 3, 2017

CIPANAS PALACE 1 - a preliminary study, acrylic on canvas, 16x20 inches, 2017


This palace is one of six Indonesian presidential palaces and is located in the mountain side area called Cipanas - about 80 kilometers south east of Jakarta. It is modest in comparison to its Bogor or Jakarta counterparts, but it is in a cooler mountain climate. Very few official state functions were held here thus making it relatively unknown to most.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

BALINESE DANCER - acrylic on canvas, 14x18 inches, 2017


Balinese dance is famous for its amazing beauty. It has distinctive moves, dazzling costume colors, intricate finger moves, unforgettable facial expressions and many more truly stunning details. Details that is the hallmark of a highly sophisticated culture. In this painting I tried to capture only a mere fraction of those details.