Happy new year

May each and every day of yours be renewed with lots of happiness and love. Happy New Year.

Radha Krisna Odissi dance

Medium : Watercolor on paper

Medium : Acrylic on canvas

Two paintings, one subject in two different mediums, two different effects .  First one I did it using watercolor and done at home. The other one in acrylic, done in artville live painting festival in bangalore. 

Photo reference : Photo by my friend Satyabrata Mohapatra.

Shiuli / Shefali Flower

Shiuli Flower

Acrylic on paper

Night Jasmine is known as  Shuili or sefali in India. These little white flowers blossomed in the night. It has beautiful fragrance. 

Cycling in rainy day

Cycling in rainy day 

Watercolor in paper

Practicing wet in wet glazing technique to get the foggy atmosphere. It's a technique where multiple layers of paint applied by wetting the paper only after the previous layer completely dried. So that there is no hard edges. 

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Lotus

Lotus 

Acrylic on canvas

A3 size

Swinging on banyan tree

You are never too old for swing

Watercolor on paper

This one is from my childhood game series. Though this is not any game but I think most of the village kids have enjoyed swinging in banyan tree.  Did it from a photo reference taken by my sister during our visit to my village. This is the one in which we also swing during our school days, I love and miss those days ...

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Two paintings on Boat

Here is two paintings on boats, evening scene. I have used limited palette only primary colours  and tried to do in loose style. Hope I was able to capture the evening mood. 

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Gutte/kata, rural childhood game series

Gutte/kata, Rural childhood game series, 

I am enjoying doing this series but this one is not came out as I expected. But still wanted to share with u all.. Before starting the painting I played with my sister to know how we are playing the game. After a long I played this game and it was really refreshing the childhood memories. And I m happy that I started doing this series. 

Gilli danda

                  

Gilli danda,

Rural childhood game painting series

Satoliya : Wish I'd never grown up

Satoliya : Wish I'd never grown up.
Rural childhood games painting series.

In this series my objective is to create simple paintings with limited colour palette.
Hope this series will bring back your sweet childhood memories.

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A tribute to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A tribute to a great human, a great teacher , a great scientist and peoples president of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. RIP

"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping,
 it is something that does not let you sleep."
~Kalam

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Flower Painting Series

Marigold

Daisy flowers

Spring flowers

Roses

Forget me not

I was doing a series of flower paintings last week. Doing a series of paintings help me a lot to know the mistakes and how to rectify it. Whatever mistake I did in a painting I tried to correct in the next one. Hope to do more series. :-)

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Elegant

Elegant,

Watercolor on paper,

Photo reference from internet

After a long time I am posting here. From long time I have not done anything good which I could share. I was looking into all the photos which I down loaded from Internet for learning purpose. I saw this photo and I could not resist to paint this beautiful horse. I really enjoyed while doing it and I liked how it came out. 

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Vivacity

Vivacity
Acrylic on paper

 Before my acrylic paints get dried completely lets do some painting :-)

Light n shadow

  

Light n shadow

Watercolor on paper

Painting trees in water is always tough for me. Practicing landscape painting in water color. Trying to get the light n shadow effect on this. Hope u like it. 

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Tenderness

Tenderness
Watercolor on paper

Waiting for tomorrow

Waiting for tomorrow

Watercolor on paper

In this I was trying to get the evening mood. 

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Munnar

Munnar

Watercolor on paper

Munnar is a beautiful place in Kerala, full of nature. This is done from a  photo taken during the visit to Munnar.

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Akanksha Art Group show

 me with my paintings

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Inauguration

 

visitors at the show

 

 self portrait competition among artists

 with my husband.

 

 with my sister

It was wonderful art event. Thanks to the Shyamala Ramanda for organising this event and giving me opportunity to participate. 67 woman artist participated. It was my first art exhibition, a great experience. Made lots of lovely friends.

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Woman in red

Woman in red

Watercolor on paper

Indian woman in traditional Saree. Loved to play with red color. 

Akanksha Group Art Exhibition

I am glad to invite to all my dear friends to Akanksha Group Art Exhibition. I will be presenting my art works along with other Women Artists. Please be there and make it a memorable event.
Venue: Chitrakala Parishat
Dates: 15th April to 19th April 2015, 10.30am to 7pm.
Inauguration: Apr 15 @ 4pm.

The silent girl

The silent girl

 Watercolor on paper

 15x11 inches

Happy new year 2015

Happy new year to all !!!

My last painting on last day of 2014 and first painting on first day of new year 2015 in a single sheet :). Hope this new year shall be full of just as fun as art adventures..

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