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

Glass Painting - Peacock

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Hello everyone, here is my latest work and I am happy to announce that I am madly in love with Glass Art :)  As glass painting is beautiful, clear and simple art, it's becoming very popular nowadays.

I have used normal glass colors on a plain glass of the size 2*1 ft and took just 4 days to finish the work and 'am very happy with the outcome :)

We have seen similar work in a shopping mall, which was priced at Rs 2000. To be honest, that (the price !!) is the inspiration.

This is the beauty of glass painting, looks different based on the background and the lighting ....

One of my close friends had told me that the greatest of all the pleasures is to hold in your hands and see for yourself what you have created. Very true!

Have a gr8 day. /bye

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

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    Here is my way of wishing you all a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi, through a mural. In fact, this is my first Mixed Media Mural !

It is a combination of Cermaic, Clay, Siporex, Glass and Copper on a plywood base and painted using oil color. As plywood is used as the base for this work, this can be only used for interior purpose.

I have used Siporex, light weight cement block, for Ganesha. As this is my first experience with carving the stone, I felt it's tough although I could manage that using a knife.

Glass pieces and pebbles are used here for the texture on the glass, with epoxy coating.

After a long time, I got the complete satisfaction from this work. Good appreciation in FB is icing on the cake :)

Happy Festive Season :) /bye

Hand Embroidery on Silk Sarees

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 Here I have uploaded some of the embroidery works on Silk sarees, which I did for my Aunt.


  Simple Kutch work

  I have used chained buttonhole stitch for the pallu

Here are few tips--
# The thread path is very important- the thread always goes up and down alternatively, this keeps the embroidery intact.looks attractive also. If there is a small mistake also you can easily identify...
# Take time to draw the design as perfect and neat as possible, otherwise it is difficult to move around and simultaneously rectify the original design.
# Practice a lot before trying on a saaree.. understanding the thread path is the better way.

The finished basic square looks like this-

    Kamal Kadai embroidery using Cone thread, which gives 3D effect for the work


    

You can put glass and kundan in embroidery to make it more beautiful..My Aunt doesn't like the shiny things so I kept it simple,,




I think I have posted quite a lot of posts under the label Handicrafts in last few months, its high time to work on some paintings :)

Have a gr8 day. /bye