"Motives from the suburbs", "Motivi iz okolice"

A series of 30 gouache paintings I did at the end of 2016. on the base of my detour of the surrounding area of Zagreb/Croatia. Each painting features one of the suburbian villages which lay on the border of the city. The whole series is painted in a style inspired by Croatian naive artists and naive and outsider art in general.

The series is published in a book, which you can order here:

https://www.superknjizara.hr/?page=knjiga&id_knjiga=133901

Football training / Ivanja Reka

On politics / Goranec

Old color factory / Zaprešić

German bunker / Zaprešić

Taking a nap / Popovec

Smoke everywhere / Rakitije

In front of the hairdressing salon / Sesvetski Kraljevec

Roads of Turopolje / Rakitovec

Sad Willow / Šašinovec

Three stoners / Turopolje

80kn with pedestal, 60kn without / Utrine

With mom at work / Velika Gorica

Visiting grandmother on All Saints day / Vukovina

Men / Podsused

Susedgrad / Podsused

Play / Petruševec

Coffee with milk /  Odra

Old lady / Markovo polje

The courtyard / Mala Mlaka

Grandmother from Lučko / Lučko

Grandson / Kozari bok

Mother and daughter / Klinča sela

Goat eating a plastic bag / Ježdovec

Girl coming home from school / Ašpergeri

News / Čučerje

Cistern for feces / Demerje

Waiting for the bus / Donji Stupnik

Black guy / Dugave

The fair / Jakuševec

Family business / Hrvatski Leskovac

Press:

http://www.jutarnji.hr/domidizajn/inspiracije/stipan-tadic-najveca-mlada-zvijezda-hrvatskog-slikarstva/5587259/
https://vizkultura.hr/motivi-iz-okolice/
http://www.gloria.hr/fokus/price/stipan-tadic-novi-uspjesi-najboljeg-mladog-hrvatskog-slikara/5574095/
http://www.journal.hr/3-super-izlozbe-za-sljedeci-tjedan/
http://www.rabdanas.com/index.php/najave/item/1860-rllj-otvorenje-izlozbe-ciklusa-radova-motivi-iz-okolice-stipana-tadica-galerija-pik-30-6-2017-u-21h

Article about Motivi iz okolice by Miljenko Jergović

http://www.jergovic.com/subotnja-matineja/prigradski-motivi-stipana-tadica-videni-okom-prolaznika/

"Motivi iz okolice" sketches, process part 2

While refering to Krsto Hegedušić and his drawings from the book "Podravski motivi" I also used the same compositions in some of the pieces. An exhibition will be held from in April in his museum in Petrinja.

"Motivi iz okolice" sketches, process part 1

Here you can see the process of my new series: „Motifs des environs zagrebois", in which I spent 4 months walking through the surrounding area of Zagreb, sketching on location and finishing the sketches in my studio.  The main source of inspiration were the legendary drawings from the book "Podravski motivi" by the croatian artist Krsto Hegedušić. 

So here are the sketches I picked them out randomly but chronologically...

1. step: A3 sketchbook drawings with pen on location

2.step -  Figuring out the style - First I wanted them to be just black and white drawings on old paper, but I figured it would be much more of a challenge to try to do them in color. I didn't want them to look to much like Hegedušić's drawings, also I wanted them to look a bit more "psychedelic"...

3. step : Then I just said what the hell and started to do tons of small format (8x10cm) sketches, from which I would chose about 30 to be made into 25x35 finished illustrations...