Self Portrait- Pain

Acrylic on canvas sheet

18 x 25cms.

A quick draw. Should i call it a sketch?

Multitasking

Acrylic on A2 size paper

My teenaged daughter caught in a pose, multitasking between laptop and TV!

I worked a wee bit more on this painting after I clicked the photo but am lazy to click another photo! 

Self Portrait- Pretense

Acrylic on Canvas Sheet-A2 size

No I did not go back to my half finished painting . Instead I did this.When you want to paint faces and don't have a model, what's better than painting yourself in one of your moods? 

Who knows your moods better than yourself. I have so many moods that i can paint myself in. It will actually keep me busy for a month at least! Here..so I paintagain!

'Paintagain'

It's been ages since I last painted!. My painting stuff is wrapped away and put into some bags. I don't know if that can be an excuse, but that is one of the reasons why I hadn't painted.
This evening, I vow to look for the paints, fish out the brushes and work on the long starved oil painting of the woman in the forest!

Sometimes, it so happens that the more you 'don't; do a thing, the more you do not do it, just as the more you do something, the more you want to do it! All my past efforts to paint just because I have to get back into the mode hadn't worked. So now I actually feel the paints beckoning me, and can smell those oils and the turpentine..hey.. I suddenly cant wait to spread the butter like oils!
So let me start the 'paintagain' project.

Connecting the dots- Acrylic on Canvas- 50 x 80 cms

Trees are as much required as connectors as the girl child. Both play a synergistic role in the sum of the parts , which is more than the whole!

This Ganpati festival ( Indian religious festival ) , I have made my contribution to goodness ( Godliness?)  by hopefully spreading this thought through my painting as it hangs in the marquee.  

Some stuff

I was going through my art journey in my mind. 

Two and half years back when I started painting, I'd actually bought a canvas and some paints and brushes out of sheer desperation to take care of my dull evenings at home, when I wanted to go out but couldn't due to family responsibilities. But I somehow envisioned at the back of my mind that I would turn it into a serious thing and saw myself painting restlessly! I actually never realised when my painting activity ballooned into a movement , where I cancelled outings so I could stay at home just to paint or draw!   

I started painting to express anger, boredom, happiness and sorrow. Soon my activities turned into paint-outs which was full of anticipation and and action.

As it grew and number of paintings increased, I came to a stage where I saw only art in everything.

Some things which inspire me to draw/ paint:

1) Lakes, water fronts, sea and all kinds of water bodies.

2) Trees and peculiarities of branches and shadows.

3) Flowers , shrubs with bright flowers

4) Houses, apartments, buildings

5) Skyline with different shades of the sun

6) Slums /!!!!! ( Yes!)

7) Restaurants and people eating/ sitting/ drinking

8) Office people in different postures

9) Expressions..happy, angry, sad

10) Last but not the least..Backs of people

One of the painters who monumentally inspires me is Karin Jurick from Atlanta Georgia. I think she is one of the most thinking painters of modern age art who has a niche in the kind of art she does and who is passionate about painting! 

Well, I just handed over one of my paintings that i was working on for a social function. I will take a break and finish the other half done work. Till then...ill dream about art!

From my sketchbook

Some more pages from my sketchbook. Hiranandani buildings and eastern express highway done from imagination with soft pastels. I actually want to do detailed plein air sketches and have sketched them a million times in my mind..but till then I'll settle for this.