incmiart: Kitikong Tilokwattanotai

Kitikong Tilokwattanotai

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Supper blue!!!!

Artist Kitikong Tilokwattanotai

Art collection at Jojo Kobe Fine Art Gallery 2019

September 2013

Tilokwattanotai is a renowned and popular artist. He owns and operates Chiang Mai Art on Paper (C.A.P) Studio, a printmaking workshop that has grown from humble beginnings into a burgeoning business and creative hub. He is an accomplished printmaker and driven entrepreneur who actively encourages and promotes emerging artists and printmaking in general. His practice is diverse in scope but held together by an enduring fascination with mark making and the endless possibilities of the print medium.

There is a difference between printmaking and digital prints that can be noticed easily. Looking at the pattern of printmaking closely with a magnifier, you will see that the colors are smooth and mix together well. Digital print, on the contrary, we will see the ink dots clearly and its pattern is not as smooth as printmaking. In my view, handmade printmaking has exceptional characteristics and is fascinating for aspiring artists as well as enthusiastic art collectors. It is thought that the primitive way of printing could even absorb the hearts and minds of people.

In this case, I want to clarify the meaning of printmaking and digital printing since many people are confused between these two terms. For each printmaking work, the artist will limit the exact quantities of copies he could create and make sure that his works are not produced more than that. All copies of printmaking are made by hand only and their quality is also controllable due to the limited number. Moreover, the process of printmaking is arduous and repetitive but it is also rewarding. Nonetheless, digital printing is a high resolution image file from a computer that can be printed anytime and in any given number if you have a good printer and sufficient color ink.

The price of printmaking at C.A.P is affordable and people can buy them and decorate their home.

In 2003, when I was in New South Wales, I did a design called Etching as a graduate project. It was about Thai alphabets which are very complex. This is a story of lines to create shades of space and cut out some part of the alphabets to combine with various parts of the work. But I did not stick with only one style of art. We can apply them in many kinds of art including home and commercial decoration or printing and many other types of media. In 2005, I exhibited and created a project called "Visions of lines". Until 2007, my works were mainly oil on canvas, etching and lithography. In 2010, my printmaking is called abstract burned print which resemble beige colors. In 2011 the Etching was still popular with its bright colors. This year you can see around my studio that my work uses contrast of color as a main concept. The creativeness and coworkers bring happiness and attract the imagination of young generations that can be the medium to be used in many suitable occasions and to bring our life back to joyfulness with lines and colors.