“Green Girl” says “Marhaban Ya Ramadhan”

“Green Girl” (Final Look)

Watercolour and watercolour pencil on paper ; Letter size

Friday, August 12th (sketch and half-finished) and Saturday, August 13th

A commisioned painting for Indonesia Kreatif

The ‘green’ theme of this painting was inspired by the cover of an old GoGirl! Magazine and the fact that I was appointed to be one of Ganesha Hijau’s Agents of Change represents HIMASITH Nymphaea (a student council name of School of Life Science and Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung) that demands me to be a representative of living a ‘green life’ in my campus. Thanks to friends from Ganesha Hijau, especially my new boss, who’s given trust on me.

If you noticed the colours on the watercolour pad beside the watercolour cake, they were colour palletes for “Green Girl”. Just like colour palletes on Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw, they will be very useful if I’m going to make different painting with same theme.

“Green Girl” was made for a cover of Eid Idl Fitr greeting card designed special for Indonesia Kreatif (IDKreatif), a name of Ministry of Trade’s research division specialized in creative economy. I was among the other 4 artists (Faisal Azad of Salazad Papertoys, Rahmat Kurniawan of Rekarupa, Thom Dean the Cartoonist, and Beng Rahadian of Akademi Samali) who was appointed to make an artwork for IDKreatif’s greeting card. So honored to know that I was in the same job with my favourite Indonesian artists. If it wasn’t Mbak Mia who asked me to design a greeting card with a painting as its cover (and also agreed to have me as an intern for 2 months at IDKreatif), I wouldn’t have been this happy. I thank her so much (again) for giving me an opportunity to show my side-talent.

“Green Girl” says, “Marhaban Ya Ramadhan”. Many thanks to Deasty Imara as one who saw the final look of the painting at the very first. You know what your words meant for me so much, Dear :)

“Green Girl” was actually my second human painting after “Thinking of You”. Same with the previous painting, I used the face of an actreess as an inspiration to draw the face of “Green Girl”. Having Kate Bosworth as my reference for “Thinking of You”, I had Emilie de Ravin on the cover of old edition of GoGirl! Magazine for “Green Girl”. Though I didn’t really know her movies (same went for Kate Bosworth), I chose her face because it looked unique to me.

As usual, I did a painting with vibrant colours that Rara thought as my own way of showing the audicity and simplicity. Felt so honored to be given an opinion about my paintings from one of my favourite bloggers. Same like my mother, Rara’s thoughts on life was technically sarcastic, yet so adorably genuine!