Abstraction!

I've just discovered the abstract, and I love it! While blog hopping one morning I landed on one that discussed the process of creating abstracts. And that was it.... had to try it out myself.

And while I worked on it, I realized what sheer fun I was having. No pressures of how the painting turns out, whether it resembles the model, and so on. Just splash paint wherever you feel and enjoy the unpredictable. For even you don't know what you'll end up with! And therein lies the beauty of this process - it is totally intuitive and liberating.

If you take due care to not mix the colours while they are wet, you end up with something that looks bright and happy, whichever way you turn it.

Now I'm itching to make more of these, and hang some up in the kids' room. Imagine the cheer they would bring into any room for that matter.

Votive/Tealight Holder

Gifted myself a new votive holder recently. Just a detour from my usual love affair with the bottles! This one works as a decor piece by day... and transforms into a tea-light holder by night.

I placed it near a window during the day, and loved how the sunlight played off the flower petals.

At night I put a candle in it.... and Voila! The delightful ambience that it created was something else....

The kids loved the warm glow it spread around the room while the hubby appreciated the transformation of the everyday and mundane to something dreamy and romantic. :)

With the festive season just around the corner, this would make just the right piece to perk up special occasions.

A limited edition of Creative Rumblings votive holders for Diwali seems like a good idea to me!! What do you say, dear readers?

The Melody Makers

Painting is a strange process; I find myself falling into phases every few days. Like sometime back I was taken over by still life representations, and now suddenly I find myself going figurative. This is one of my such attempts at painting human figures.

Curiously, this painting was triggerred off by two different pictures I saw in the papers. I mentally fused the two, cutting out extra elements to come up with this composition of the trio on stage.

Though this particular piece is one of my smaller paintings (7"x11" approx.), I currently am drawn to a larger size (15"x11" approx.) for my latest works.

Also, I'm painting more from personal experience now rather than relying on some pictorial impulse.

Feels better and freer this way!

Monsoon Skies

After a deluge of bottle-related posts, here is one that goes back to my paintings on paper. This one was inspired by the picturesque monsoon skies awash with colour, especially in the evenings.

What I painted here is the sight I get to see from my terrace in the evenings. Painting after a long gap was a bit challenging though. And especially capturing those colours melting into each other all over the sky.

Beer-y Flowery

Turning coloured beer bottles into flowery bottle vases...

With a dash of bling.

A fun outing with my brushes and colours.

Hope you enjoyed the outcome!

Cosmos Cluster

Longish absence from the blog.... blame it all on the kids' school. I've had my hands full with the school time activities of the kids, along with their exams. So for a fortnight or more, all my creative activities are in no-go mode.

The approaching festive long weekend only makes it worse. Can't see any work getting done before next week.

But for you I have a cluster of cosmos flowers blooming on a bottle.

Pretty pink heads with sparkly centres! Hope they brighten up your days. :)

Bottle Art Now At Creativegarh

The start of a new month, and the festive season round the corner; this calls for something new from my end too! So here is the good news...

Creative Rumblings Bottle Art is now available at the Creativegarh store. You can check out their Facebook page here.

Visit their cute little shop to get hold of some gorgeousness in time for the festive season!

Store address: 37A Shahpurjat, New Delhi 110049, New Delhi, India

Happy bottle shopping! :)