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.