Wings at Work

Medium: Mixed Media on Wooden Board
Size: 12"X12"
This is a Monarch butterfly with a yellow flower. This is mixed media work where oil pastels, acrylics and multipurpose colors have been used in combination to achieve the final result.

I used only the clear color on the top of oil pastels to fix as oil pastels tend to smudge and I do not like using those sprays to fix oil pastels sometimes. This color gives a glossy finish and long life to the painting. The Calcutta Street Scene and Florida Sunshine were done using these colors. These colors are not available commercially. My art instructor in Delhi makes these himself.

So wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year :)...Have lots of fun !

Calcutta Street Scene

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 10" X 8"

This is a miniature piece of art. Here I have used warm colors like browns and blacks and yellows...And this one was liked so much that I ended up making 2 extra copies. I generally do not repeat my work but this one turned out to be an exception.

Interesting thing here is...that the inspiration behind this painting was a photograph in the newspaper. Also I looked at some street photo from calcutta and I really liked it. The photograph was black and white and months later I made this painting. And I just love it.

It does not happen always that you try create something new and you finally like it and fall in love with it. But this is one main reason why I love painting !

Red Tulips

Media: Mixed Media on Acrylic Sheet
Size: 30" X 10"

Abstract Horse

Media: Mix media on canvas
Size: 36" X 27"

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 !

Scene of Chandni Chownk

Medium: Mix media on Canvas

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.