Festivals of Kerala -watercolor painting

Hello everyone,

I have been away from my blog as well as painting for a long time . Many other things took away all my spare time ,my job responsibilities,new project on vegetable growing in polyhouse  etc etc.I wanted to paint but could never bring myself to do it until now. 

This watercolor painting of  temple festival in kerala was done in  many days.My aim was to give prominence to the colorful umbrellas,peacock feather fans and the white fans that they display on top of the elephants. On the otherside there is another set of elephants displaying the diety and again colorful umbrellas.The people holding the umbrellas that you see in the front are sitting on top of the elephants and all around the colors are to show the people who come in masses to see this festival. This temple festival is called poorams.I had done almost a similar  painting on the same subject.You can check it here.

http://nandadeviy.blogspot.in/2013/01/festival-in-gods-own-country-watercolor.html

Let me know your comments and do enjoy my paintings.

Water color painting crafts

Hi friends glad to be back.Its easy to leave and go but so tough to comeback !! Well after getting back from my flu for the year I had no further excuses. I have not yet started painting. For the time being check out what I made from  pieces of my paintings . The first one I thought of using as a coaster but its small. the second one I am planning to use as a locket. Learned this fantastic technique of making jewellery with watercolor painting from the internet .These pieces are having almost 7 layers of paper  glue and varnish.

Autumn leaves

Some of us have never seen natures colour changes with different seasons. We are fortunate to have greenery all the year round but we do miss out  natures dramatic changes which are awesome . For many people  their landscapes become a kaleidoscope  with each season. For the first time I took in a visual delight of yellows,reds and browns when I visited Bremen in Germany some years back .Truly Beautiful!

So here is a water color experiment  of autumn leaves to remember those days.