Happy Valentine's Day

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This is one of the acrylic works, finished in a hurry just before Chitra Santhe. I thought this suits best for Valentine's Day, so uploading here.

Don't forget to leave work early today so that your colleagues actually think you have Valentine's Day plans :) Happy Valentine's day !

Chira Santhe - The art (af)fair of Bengaluru

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Chitra Santhe is a one-day art festival organised by Chitrakala Parishat, where nearly 2000 artists from all over India come together to showcase their work on the side pavements of Kumara Krupa Road in Bangalore. 

This time it was held on Jan 5th, and am lucky to get a stall this year as well. As the space allocated to the stall was smaller than last year and my friend had put few of his works in my stall, it was difficult to display all the paintings properly.

This is the best occasion to interact with many artists and art lovers, and get to know about them. Its a great platform to learn so many things and get inspired by their work.

This year the art fest witnessed more crowd compared to last year. I think the number of photographers also have increased, thanks to smart phones :)  Although I hate the crowd in general, but Chitra Santhe is the only event where I enjoy the crowd very much :)

I would like to thank all of you, who have visited my stall.

Have a gr8 day. /bye

Happy New Year - 2014

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    Wishing you a fabulous 2014, with full of great achievements and experiences. May the year bring Happiness, Good Health and all the Success. 

    I have learnt a lot in 2013, be it managing tough time or learning many creative stuff. Last year gave me all the opportunities to mature as a person and am sure this year will be more fruitful.

    Coming back to the intention of this blog .. to share my recent abstract paintings"Chasing the Light" with you all ... acrylic on canvas, each of size 12 * 24 inches. Considering the time I spent on these works I am happy with the output. 

    Have a gr8 day. /bye

Mother's Love

ello Friends, welcome to my last post of this year :)  I am here with my new work, an oil painting - Mother's Love", on canvas of size 16 * 14 inches.

I got a reference for this painting in a photography website, liked instantly because of its composition, lighting and timing.

I remembered my mother a lot while working on this, as she always tries all her tricks to make me eat more. She always complains me of becoming skinny even though I keep gaining weight :) Probably all mothers are like that..

See you all in 2014, take care.

Experimental work with Glass :)

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Wish you and your family a very Happy and Prosperous Deepavali. 

Due to some personal reasons, we could not go to our native place this time. I was missing my family very much and to overcome that I kept myself busy and tried my hand at glass work and made these pen holders.

I wanted to put these glass pieces in a wooden frame to make it more elegant, but the carpenter quoted too much for that, so I had to drop the idea. As I have no glass cutter at home, got the help from a near by shop to cut the glass. Unfortunately they were not good at cutting the smaller pieces, next time onwards I have to do this myself and make them more precise.

Have a gr8 day. /bye

First Photography Post from a serious amateur photographer ;)

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    Here are some photographs from my recent visit to Bandipur, thought of sharing with you all. This trip provided the much needed opportunity to experiment with my new lens...
Hmmm loooong way to go :)

Have a gr8 day. /bye

Evergreen Clay Beauties !!

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    How are you ? Hope you enjoyed the long weekend :)

   Here is my recent work - Iris (national flower of France) made out of Thai clay. This flower comes in a variety of colors, but I have selected Blue Iris as it symbolizes faith and hope, most importantly it looks attractive.

Thank you very much Seema for teaching me this beautiful art, I cannot forget the way you have explained each and every thing... definitely you are the Queen of Clay Flowers dear :)

 I have really enjoyed "the making" of this flower, need to try some more varieties.

 Have a gr8 day. /bye