Last Sunday I spent some time to create this picture. It's a small card made of cheaper quality paper.
I am professionally a plant tissue culturist.My first love was botany and while learning about plants I was introduced to drawing.Now plants and flowers are part of my life.Forgetting the academics I try to enjoy beauty of nature through paintings.When I travel nature and places appear before me like a kaleidoscope.Its too vast for my eyes to behold and I want to capture them in my mind .There are so many colours and shapes and I try to present a few here through my paintings .
Tuesday 10 November 2015
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Thursday 3 September 2015
Ellora caves,India
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 |
Sunday 16 August 2015
Friday 17 April 2015
Monday 30 March 2015
Water color painting. Butterfly
Hi everyone. Thankyou for visiting and following my blog. I found a calendar on butterflies and they were so colorful and designed that I got a jolt to start painting again. This painting I have done on rIce paper from China. I am planning to decoupage this on a pot. So back to work on it. Do let me know how you like it.
Tuesday 3 February 2015
Travelling to Bhuj
We also had a brief look into the technicalities of block printing. Amazing that the block printed saree goes through so many process of dyeing and printing with different blocks of carved wood.
Here are some photos