Diwali Greetings

Diwali greetings to all my dear readers!

I'll be painting and decorating diyas with my kids, making a rangoli and torans, preparing a feast for the family, and gorging on sweets.

And in this age of crass commercialisation, trying to keep things simple and traditional.

Hope we all celebrate the festival of lights.... not one of noise and pollution.

Hope you all too have a fabulous Diwali!

Festive Offer - Diwali Sale!!!

October, the month of festivities in India. Dusshera has just gone by, which means Diwali is round the corner!

Deck up your homes this Deepawali with Creative Rumblings tealight holders.

Limited edition hand painted tea-light holders specially available for the festive season. The tealight holders come in two designs - Peacock Feather and Paisley & Flora.

Paisley & Flora / Peacock Feather

Paisley & Flora

Peacock Feather

Price: Rs. 50 apiece (without tealight) ; Size: 3" x 2"(approx.)

Can be couriered to anywhere in India. Shipping chargeable extra, based on actuals. To order, send me a mail at creativerumblings@gmail.com

Spread the word around and send me a mail quickly.... before someone else grabs the goodies.Hope you all enjoy the festive season, and happy shopping! :)

Durga Puja & Dusshera Greetings

The festive season is upon us, the season of feasting and fasting. While the east Indians, decked in their finery, get into celebratory mode and tuck into visual and gastronomic feasts, the north Indians turn pious and fast through the Navratras to express their devotion to the Mother Goddess.


The Goddess has arrived.... the vanquisher of all evil. Let us celebrate her coming, and hope for a better tomorrow with her blessings.

Wish all my readers a happy Durga Puja, Dusshera and Vijaya Dashami.

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.