Orange On Brown

As the sun becomes stronger and the morning breeze turns cooler, you know autumn is right round the corner. Perhaps the reason why I have been steering towards a lot of orange on brown combos these days.

Yes, the subconscious effect can be seen across various media, as you can make out from the picture above.

Have also got an interesting project lined up for home; will share details with you when it is through. The exciting bit - if it works out right, it could mean a completely new medium to play around with! :)

Meanwhile, Blogger has gone and changed its entire look and feel, at least in the background bits. So don't be surprised if one fine day, you see some posts looking wonky.... Hate it when they do this, but can't say we weren't warned. Only too tied up to check out the new features. So now the new deal is upon us, and there is no running away. Phew, another peak to cross....

Ganpati On A Bottle

The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi comes around later this month, and so I thought a Ganpati bottle would be appropriate. The elephant-headed Hindu deity is everybody's favourite, and remembered on all auspicious occasions.

Completed the Ganpati bottle last month, and posting here a combo picture of the same to give you an all-round view.

This bottle captures Ganesha in different poses, and carries different names used to address the lord. His love for sweets is another aspect that this bottle highlights along with his carrier, the 'mooshak'. Hope you like this one!

p.s. - For a clearer picture of the bottle, go check out our Facebook page.

Peach Lilies

Another of the summer lilies.... was finally finished last month.

These peach ones are a real beauty, and stay for many days. So they make for ideal flowers to put in the vase and cheer up your room.

Daffodils

Have just about recovered from a hard drive crash! Went through hell last week as three years worth of data disappeared overnight, including official stuff, personal stuff, and a huge collection of pictures. Over this weekend things are slowly crawling back to normal, so I can breathe again....

In sorting through old pictures, I came across these Daffodils that I had painted in my early glass painting days.


The piece is my tribute to Wordsworth's famous poem by the same name; it remains one of my favourite pieces of poetry till date. The painting hangs in an uncle's home for the past many years now. :)

More Random Sketches

One of the best ways of making the shift from bottle painting to regular painting is to practise some sketching first.

Picked up an old edition of National Geographic magazine and tried out these two.

Sketching reinforces the old adage about lines being the most important part in any work of art. It really is all about lines in the end. So pick up a pencil and start off yourself....

Birdwatching

I have been working so furiously on the bottles since April that very few paintings have gotten done during this period. This is one of the few pieces that managed to make it through.

It was lying around sketched for a long time before I finally picked up the paints and finished it in three days flat.

I thought a visual progression would make for interesting viewing, so here goes....

Do let me know what you think of how the painting evolved. For me the journey is always fascinating! :)

Cosmos Garden

In my student days, I used to visit the hills often. And just after the rains, the hillsides used to be covered in green, with flowers popping out of everywhere. My aunt's garden had a huge expanse of cosmos flowers, with their pretty pink flowers bobbing in the breeze.

It is the beauty of that memory from my youth that I have tried to capture in this bottle. Cosmos flowers crowd the base of this bottle, with overhanging berry-laden creepers filling up the top.

And that magical zone in between abuzz with the drone of the dragonflies!

Surely one of those amazing pieces that helps bring in the outdoors....