As an illustrator and writer, Aysun Altindag always tries new styles and challenges herself to create constantly. One of the challenges
was drawing painters’ famous portraits in her own style with watercolours for 100 days/ 100 portraits, and she prepared posters
from them
As an illustrator and writer, Aysun Altindag always tries new styles and challenges herself to create constantly. One of the challenges was drawing painters’ famous portraits in her own style with watercolours for 100 days/ 100 portraits, and she prepared posters from them.
In another period she created 30 different scenes in 30 days about a little girl having adventures.
One of the other 30 days challenge was writing and drawing mini stories, at the end some of these mini stories became a childrens’ book series.
Recently she experiments with the collage technique and she thinks that it’s a great way to create İstanbul scenes.
Besides all of that she is an urban sketcher. It is the idea of drawing on location and of catching the wide urban landscape with lines and colour. It is not just the painting done at the end but the time you spend on the location what is important. The reaction of people passing by, the conversation you are having with others, the sound that surrounds you, and the smells, are also part of the process of understanding your environment. Therefore, it’s a perfect tool to understand a city and show it to others from your point of view.
During her residency in Tetovo she made urban sketches and taught children how to do it via workshops. She asked them to do sketches to show someone who has never been in that place before.
