me and my etsy : The Chosen Four Pack!

You can have them all as blank cards for

10 USD including shipping OR as art prints

set for 20 USD including shipping. What an

offer, right?

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26594978

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29737267

me and collages : a bit many new pieces:)

Apart from joining an awesome bazaar in an art collective

the whole long weekend, I managed to finished all these.
Three series, two for another Halloween cards and the
others for art prints. What do you think, dearie?

They available today at the shoppe. Woot!
Oh, there is one more new piece that I should share
as soon as my scanner can do its job properly.

work and wednesday

I finished these two among piles of works, endless brainstorming

sessions and of course one after another glass of iced coffee

cream. The more stressed out I am the more things I do

and make in between. How about you? What do you do

when you are in that moment?

me and giveaway: a specially for you!

For the launch of my oval collage tags I have made

a special set of tags for you, all my inspirational readers

and friends outhere. Just leave me a description of your

perfect kind of tags and email on the comments below.

I will draw the winner next Tuesday. Good luck and

thank you so much for join in! Yay!

me and collages: take a peek on a new series

Remember my Nina series? This one called the Mimi series.

It will be about five pieces as the start. But I really like what

I've seen so far so we'll see how they all will turn out:)

There are some original pieces on my Nina series available

also two of its postcard set at www.vantiani.etsy.com.

Oh and my apology for the lighting, Jakarta has been having

a really really heavy rain for the last couple of days. Brrr!

me and collages: a customized series of ACEO

So the idea is a series of ACEO with this boy as the main

character. One series consist of 3 ACEO. YOU pick the word

on each ACEO that consist of three letters only. The font is

exactly like this one. Actually, I'm thinking of Valentine's

when I made this. Interesting, right?

So go to http://www.vantiani.etsy.com/ to order yours today:)

me and giveaway: the winner!

Thanks to Miss Raw and congratulations to Digital Misfit http://www.myhidingplaceincyberspace.blogspot.com/

to win this giveaway! Oh I doing this!

Let's have another one this week, shall we?;)

me and collages: fabrics

This one piece of collage that here is far away from being

finished although I have start making it since last year.

What makes it different to me is I combine fabrics and paper

on each piece of it. There will be only four pieces available for

sale later on but what I'm saying on this post is that there will

be another column coming up next week on fabrics;)

Yes, I feel really excited for making more projects with this

blog since the feedbacks that I receive and the inspirations that

I got from making them is just so so good! Thank you so so

much everyone!

Oh and don't forget Monday I will announce the winner of

my original collage giveaway...so go now and put your comments.

me and collages: a lesson

I'm a pretty impatience collage artist. I realise this lately

when I push myself to finish a series without realising

that actually the idea is not really there yet. Only because

I feel like there is this urge to stay being productive so

I just keep cutting and gluing without actually know what 

I am doing. How about you? What kind of collage artist 

are you, dear?

me and collages: an exhibition abroad next month!

I'm really excited to be offered the opportunity to exhibit

a series of my original collages at this one event called

Femme Fest'09 (http://www.thecoathangers.wordpress.com/)

organized by some girlfriends of mine from Malaysia and

Singapore. The event will be on the 28th of February in

Kuala Lumpur.

There will also be gigs, workshops, Food Not Bombs and

other interesting activities mostly on DIY, anarchism, hardcore

punk and women in general. Yes, I wish I could go but we will

see. Right now I'm just really glad that I already finished six

out of ten pieces of my series.

Thanks and a huge good luck to everyone at Femme Fest'09
for this event. You rock, girls!:)

Collage Comrade Column: DoomGloomBoom

Zack, thank you so much for taking this opportunity to be featured on my blog. I am a pretty new collage artist therefore I always love to bump into another one especially with such an inspiring techniques, materials and concept. So, let’s start with the interview now shall we?

1. Please tell me a bit about yourself and how you are first finding collage as one of your creative expressions?

"I have been doing art for as long as I can remember (doesn’t everyone say that?) and I always enjoyed painting the most. But I always got bored of having a blank canvas to start from and so I started to paint on old worn out book pages. I eventually got bored of doing this method and so now I am destroying various pages and papers and then assembling them into something that I am happy with emotionally and intellectually, but more so emotionally."

2. Tell me about your creative process in making a collage? Is there any specific ritual or just wait for the inspirations to come or any other way?

"I tend to usually start by gathering different surfaces and papers. I will then rip them, cut them, fold them until I have the sizes I want them to be in. Then I lay the papers all out and start to arrange them into something that feels right. It’s kind of primitive but I think the process is fun. After everything is matted down and dried I usually find myself taking a break (sometimes a day to even a week) and I start to think of ideas of what to paint on top of the surface. This is where I think my ritual ends and inspiration begins. It could be anything that catches my attention or something that I have stored away in my head that I will decide to paint one day, it’s always different. But like I said I might have an idea in a day or I could sit for a week until something provokes me to paint. "

3. What kind of materials that you have been using or even try out after all these time? How many of them is actually works and are there any failures?

"I like dress pattern a lot. It’s translucent so you can build a lot of stuff under it and the color of it is nice and natural looking. I also use a lot of foreign articles or books, I like the fact that some of those papers have traveled and lasted so much and they now have a permanent home stuck in a collage. Other than those I have used sheet music and some thin fabrics. I have found that metals, even paper thin metals, are very hard to use because they can bend and change under different temperatures so sticking them to something is troublesome."

4. Apart from making collages, are there any other craftworks that you make?

"I can’t think of any at the moment. I have assembled books with my paintings on each page, but I haven’t done that in years."

5. Now, let’s talk about selling the craftworks. Does it take a long time for you to decide that you can sell your collages or even actually live out of it?

"Right now I still haven’t made it to where I am able to live off of just my art, but I hope that day is soon. I always knew I would want to sell my art but it wasn’t until my girlfriend discovered Etsy that I found a nice and easy way to do it. "

6. I notice that several collage artists are also into making and selling kits and organize workshops. I love doing workshops and hoping to have more next
year. How about you?

"I enjoy the workshops and kits that people put out too. Although I haven’t really thought about doing it myself because mine would probably be having people destroying things and making a mess. I guess it would be amusing to watch."

7. Have you done any exhibitions? Would you like to tell us what was it like?

"I haven’t done a solo exhibition yet, I have been apart of a handful of group ones though. I am hoping sometime this coming year I will have enough work to have a solo show. My favorite part about exhibitions is the fact that you have all of these people from around the community, sometimes world, together enjoying artwork. And it is such a neat partnership between artist and the community."

8. I’ve notice also that there are so many medium where we can put our collages in apart just make them into wall-hanging or ACEO. How about you? What kind of medium that you’ve used or plan to use for your collages?

"I have been noticing that even videos, cartoons, and commercials are doing things that have the illusion or effect of a collage. It is interesting to see but I am happy with just making wall-hanging collages. It keeps me satisfied enough, but who knows what I will do when I am bored of it."

9. What do you like most about making collages? Is there anything that you don’t like about it?

"I like that it can have so many layers upon layers of material. I think doing this makes it look deeper and have more character to it. It also makes the creative process a more enriching one, because you get to hunt for source material and you can also be surprised with what you find. And the ritual of assembling and destroying is always fun, I think it’s kind of like a electronica or hip-hop musician, they are always sampling and editing things until it satisfies them emotionally or for whatever reason. Right now I can’t think of a reason to not like the process."

10. Any last words? And please share us your email, shop, gallery or anything that you would like to share with us.

"I enjoyed this interview very much and hope I made some sense. You can get a hold of me at mailto:zack.pinson@gmail.com And my growing shop is on http://www.etsy.com/ under the username “DoomGloomBoom”. Selling art isn’t the most important thing, but having a source to exercise your creative muscle is. I don’t make a lot of money on my art but I enjoy it being out there for people to see and remember it. "

me and collages: a new blog project!

Starting this month I will have a monthly column on my blog

called Collage Comrade Column where I will interview and

feature artists that works inspires me or as simple as

giving me a fresh idea on the word 'collage' itself.

So far I've received several wonderful feedbacks from collage

artists that I find either from etsy or any other blog post.

I certainly wish they will inspire you too in your crafty work

this new year. What an exciting project this one for me! Yay!

Make sure you come by often this year!:)

me and collages: a giveaway!

She is part of my collage series called Origami Balloons. Her size
is 8,5 cm x 13 cm lovingly made of an old music book pages,
origami papers and an art clip collection of mine. Perfect to be
frame and decorate a pink lover room. Don't you think?

I will draw the winner next Monday, on the 12th of January.
This is my second giveaway and I'm really excited!
Just leave a message below and I will draw from there.
Good luck, Love!

Me and collages: A new series for kids!

It's interesting to realize that when I made this series

I keep having kids in my mind. Kids room, kids party,

and other kids related activities. I am so glad to always

have a pile origami papers around my chaotic studio

because I find out that each origami papers set that

they sell here has totally different set of colors!

Some of these will be available at my etsy and

some others will be made into postcards! Yay!

And actually there are other new series that I made

during last long holiday. I will share them with you

later this week since I have another interesting

collage project on my blog this year starting this month.

Wait and see dearie!:)

me and collages: a valentine series!

Yes, I'm already on the mood of Valentine! Lol. Well at least,

my shop does. I have a chat with one of another etsian and

she speaks about making some stuff for Valentine and it strikes

me how near it is actually. I mean, if you buy one of these like

next week, it will arrive at the third week of January. Ready to

be send and receive by your honey bunny on the second week

of February, right? No?

Anyway, go check them out because I even have a double sided

collage for you! Hot and ready at www.vantiani.etsy.com!

me and my life: questions

1. do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near?:)

2. do people believe that some people are more important

than others? everyone IS important.

3. do we as human tend to claim everything is ours on this earth?

4. do we have to fall in and out of love so many times in our life?

5. do we create something called war and weapon?

6. does it is so difficult for some people to accept differences?

7. does it really matter what material you have in your life now?

8. do some people believe that they can own another people?

9. do people are so afraid of the future?

10. do i feel like i have to take a vacation now?

maybe because of I make this post. lol.

* picture is courtesy of www.geminiislikemonkey.blogspot.com

me and collages: a new series!

I have been looking for used and vintage maps for sometime.

But not until last Sunday I accidently found some on a tiny

used book shop where my punk boy used to shop too. That's

where his map collections come from actually.

There are three pieces so far, made of a used postcard as the

backup as my other collages. I haven't decide either to put these

three first on my etsy or wait for more pieces being made. But

how I love these three! Yay!

What do you think?

me and my etsy: updates!

It's really interesting how excited I was about updating

my shop until I realized that I will have way too many new

stuff in one time update if I actually go with the first plan.

So today, I decide to add some new collages first. And for

next week I'm going to put totally a new product that I am

so excited about already!

These time they all smaller than any of my previous batch

of collages in my shop and I certainly learn a lot about making

stuff that will take a really cheap cost on the delivery from Jakarta

after sometime now.

So, please do take a peek to my new stuff at the shop today.