Mural Painting of Ganesha

 This is a kerala mural painting of Lord Ganesha playfully kicking the water with his feet . This acrylkic painting has been my full length mural and gave me immense pleasure to see the result of many days of painting,it gave me also the confidence to go into mural painting for the future.

This painting travelled all the way from India to New York last December and last week I got the picture from the proud owner Neelam . She says "it looks perfect and gives divine energy energy through out the house "

Birds in mural painting

Practising my mural training on easy hand drawn pictures is a must in order that I can improve.Here is one such practise session.

Mural Paintings

Hi all after a very long time.
Its been few crazy years busy with my official responsibilities. But now I am back again to let you know I am on the track to painting again.
I am learning to paint Murals in the past one year. Accidentally went for a days workshop and was  instantly in love with this art. It was a short two days beginners course and I ended up going for regular classes with the artist Vishnu Vikraman . Mr Vishnus art is exceptional and he has indepth knowledge of mural painting . He translate mythological stories into paintings .Here is some of the paintings I have done under his guidance.These paintings are mainly on canvas with acrylic paints.
Do let me know how you like these.#keralamuralpainting.com

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Water color experiments

Hi Friends,
After a long period of fear of having lost my skills to paint with watercolours I can announce that I have  started to paint again. Here are a few of them.

waterlily

Beach view in LA

village scene

Thriveni sangamam Allahabad

Felting a Landscape

Felting  is a new interesting craft work for me.  Although many felting work is used to make simple toys I have now tried to do a painting with the felting technique. Quite a learning process, with so many pokes on my fingers from the barbed needle used for felting😢.However the final outcome was worth it,I have learned and made a good picture.😊

Mural in acrylic

Hi there I made an attempt to do a mural.Just experimenting how to do a mural.My friend did this picture from the internet.
With few tips I had from artists friends I made a small piece of the same picture.I was pleased with the effort .In fact it was a very enjoyable experience showing each step to my friend and developing the shading.I am really inspired to do more.If you liked my painting do let me know.Thank you visiting my blog.

Buddha painting in acrylic

I decided to take up a 30 day challenge to paint everyday and not to procrastinate anymore about painting.So here I am second day of my challenge.
This is a painting of Buddha in acrylic.It's done on top of plywood.It's not an original ,I was inspired by a mural on wood .Hope to hear from all of you.Do let me know so that I am motivated to complete my challenge.

Acrylic painting abstract

Happy new year everyone.I welcomed the new year with this lovely abstract 'you came along with me' .My 2015 journey was eventful many of you were with me looking forward to reach 2016.

In this abstract painting the sunset landscape forms the backdrop of the journey towards 2016.

Water Color Painting of Nesting Storks

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This is a painting which I started some time back in fact I had posted it in my blog too.http://nandadeviy.blogspot.in/2013/04/birds-in-watercolor-work-in-progress.html.Long time ago !
The storks are painted in watercolors and I used ink drawings for the tree and rest of the picture. I am really satisfied with the end result hope you too enjoy this painting .Do let me know your feedback.

Acrylic painting of the boat

A small painting in acrylic .This is the same picture that I had done in water colors.
This painting was just a small practise with my aunt who wanted to learn acrylic painting.

Do also check out the water color painting on the same subject done earlier.Here is the link

http://nandadeviy.blogspot.in/2013/03/painting-exhibition-sales.html

The picture credit goes to  book water in watercolour by Joe Francis Dowden.

Water color painting practise

Last Sunday I spent some time to create this picture. It's a small card made of cheaper quality paper.

Tubular beads crochet

Hello crochet crazy friends tubular crochet with beads is really fascinating.It's not so tough as it looks ,crochet in rounds incorporating the beads is the basic technique.Here are some photos to show you what's been done.

Ellora caves,India

Hello friends
  Last week I went to explore the Cave sculptures and paintings  in Ajantha and Ellora caves in Aurangabad.Here are some photographs taken of Ellora caves. It was an wow factor experience indeed. Ellora was beautiful you could go on looking at each pillar and post and not complete the experience even in a month.What I could see was for few hours that is all.I took these photographs but after a while you forget to click since you need to absorb the beauty into your memory.Its a tiring journey to the interiors of Aurangabad and lots of walking and climbing.So if you ever do it take your time and enjoy. Check out this link for more detailshttp://www.aurangabadlive.com/ellora-caves.aspx

Intricate decorations on pillars

Lord Shiva suppressing Ravana who is shaking the kailash mountain where lord Shiva sits

Goddess on lotus

see the folded leaves of lotus

temple inside the ellora caves

Epic stories in stone

Animals carved as if holding the chariot shaped temple

Shiva killing demon

Mahaveer in the caves representing Jainism

Painting a butterfly in watercolors

My water color painting after a long time.Hope to practise and do better next time.I had chosen an easy subject ,yet not doing regularly did cost me!!

Various crochet

Here are some of the crochet items I have done recently.