Media: Mix media on canvas
Size: 36" X 27"
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Ganesha
Medium: Mix Media on Canvas
Ganesha...the elephant god as some people simply understand....Lord Ganesha is considered the lord of success and is worshiped as the god of education, wisdom, knowledge and wealth.
The curvy trunk which symbolizes "OM"...big round belly...the symbol of "Maya" (the material world) and the big elephant head...represents wisdom.
I love drawing Ganesha and the colors here...golden yellow with scarlet indian red along with olive green....with pastel brown and white in the background. Happy with how the final outcome turned out !
Mystic Sadhu
Medium: Oil pastels on Sandboard
Size : 11" X 9"
This painting is oil pastels on Sandboard ( as I call it ). Sandboard is nothing but Sandpaper pasted on a thin wooden ply or compressed board. And this provides excellent texture for pastels. If you love working with oil pastels then this is a must try.
Coming on to the Sadhu...I just love this composition and anyone who is from India or understands India will find this painting very engaging. And what makes it interesting is the idea of the Sadhu holding a Beedi ( handcrafted cigarette) along with his usual kamandal ( Water vessel ) and Lathi (Wooden Stick). The credit for this idea...I mean sadhu holding the cigar goes to my art instructor " Sirish Sir" from whom I learned oil pastels and drawing.
Size : 11" X 9"
This painting is oil pastels on Sandboard ( as I call it ). Sandboard is nothing but Sandpaper pasted on a thin wooden ply or compressed board. And this provides excellent texture for pastels. If you love working with oil pastels then this is a must try.
Coming on to the Sadhu...I just love this composition and anyone who is from India or understands India will find this painting very engaging. And what makes it interesting is the idea of the Sadhu holding a Beedi ( handcrafted cigarette) along with his usual kamandal ( Water vessel ) and Lathi (Wooden Stick). The credit for this idea...I mean sadhu holding the cigar goes to my art instructor " Sirish Sir" from whom I learned oil pastels and drawing.
Hope
Medium: Mix Media on Paper
This painting is on an Ivory Sheet ( thick glossy paper). The colors are Olive Green, Golden Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Pale Blue and Peach. The challenging part of doing this painting is that one has to work very fast. The tool here was fingers instead of brushes along thin wooden pointed stick (like ice-cream stick) and 4 inch thin aluminium sheet available at Hardware Stores.
First I sketched the bamboos with leaves very loosely directly from the nozzled burnt-sienna bottle. And then used my fingers to color the green and golden yellow to color the bamboos and leaves. Before these colors dried completely I scatched the sides and edges with the wooden stick to give some texture. Once the colors dried I came back and poured a lot of colors like golden yellow, peach and olive green and spreaded it with the aluminium sheet evenly all over scrathing the areas above the leaves in the shape of long spreaded cones to depict reflection of light. After the painting dried I cut it into two pieces and framed it into two beautiful panels.
I was very happy with the outcome which was a combination of realism and abstract. And named it "Hope" for what Bamboos have to offer to the world. It is one plant which has so many uses and it grows really fast. The perfect hope of going green in this age of industrialization and globalization to save the planet.
This painting is on an Ivory Sheet ( thick glossy paper). The colors are Olive Green, Golden Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Pale Blue and Peach. The challenging part of doing this painting is that one has to work very fast. The tool here was fingers instead of brushes along thin wooden pointed stick (like ice-cream stick) and 4 inch thin aluminium sheet available at Hardware Stores.
First I sketched the bamboos with leaves very loosely directly from the nozzled burnt-sienna bottle. And then used my fingers to color the green and golden yellow to color the bamboos and leaves. Before these colors dried completely I scatched the sides and edges with the wooden stick to give some texture. Once the colors dried I came back and poured a lot of colors like golden yellow, peach and olive green and spreaded it with the aluminium sheet evenly all over scrathing the areas above the leaves in the shape of long spreaded cones to depict reflection of light. After the painting dried I cut it into two pieces and framed it into two beautiful panels.
I was very happy with the outcome which was a combination of realism and abstract. And named it "Hope" for what Bamboos have to offer to the world. It is one plant which has so many uses and it grows really fast. The perfect hope of going green in this age of industrialization and globalization to save the planet.
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