Sobre el Artista

Karina Delicia Simon (born 1990) is a contemporary Indonesian artist; who specializes in photorealistic pencil drawings. She was born and raised in Indonesia, in a family of entrepreneurs. She began drawing and painting in primary school, exploring various media such as oil paint, acrylic, watercolor, oil pastel, and pencil. From early on, she was a fan of art and craft; especially drawing, painting, and origami. She hoped to work in creative industry; whether as a designer or an artist. She has a bachelor degree in Fashion and Retailing; and worked as a fashion designer before becoming a full-time artist. She has no formal art training and develops the pencil technique herself. Her art pieces and their color intensity are created through building layers upon layers of merely strokes of pencil. Karina drawings are often a metaphor and symbolism of a subject matter. Karina is known for her photorealistic drawings of diverse object, mostly origami and abstract paint forms; whereby she creates shapes using acrylic paints, photographs it, then draws it in larger scale using color pencil on paper.