The Window Sill

Oil on canvas A4 size

Window sills are so fascinating. I have this long window sill on the balcony, which used to flaunt potted plants for a long time. Then slowly as I got into this madness called painting, the pots started getting replaced by bottles with brushes and turpentine.It started adding on and on. Currently it has about four bottle holders with brushes and palette knives, kerosine bottles, different tubes of paints and rolls of toilet paper (which I use abundantly for wiping paints)! The window sill is not a thing of beauty anymore perhaps to 'normal' people, but am sure painters would eye it with interest. Oh yes! It is a mess, which is a given with art and paintings..I love it!!!!:)

This painting is an imaginative abstraction of a 'normal' window sill, quite unlike mine!:) This photo is really bad by the way and the painting looks a lot different:(

Blithe

Oil on canvas with palette knives

12x 14 inches

I had had a hard day yesterday and by the time it was afternoon, I knew I had to spread colours to dissolve my anger. Barely did I reach home when I knifed into an empty canvas and completed it this morning at the cost of my morning exercises!

I added colours here and similarly added calories to myself!:) 

Seasonal

Spring

Autumn

I made these two paintings for my sister. Of late , I have started using more subtle colours on my palette.Maybe it is a sign of aging ( Not the painting, but the artist :0 ). 

This year I haven't had a single plein air session. That has reduced the number of paintings automatically. I am now planning to start some still life works at home. Do watch this blog!:)

Parsi Balcony

Oil On canvas

12x14 inches

Inspired from a photo on my friend Adi's blog about books:

http://wordsutteredinhaste.blogspot.in/2011/06/trees-of-dadar-parsi-colony.html

It was on a drive to Parsi Colony in Dadar , in Mumbai that I saw 5 gardens. The sheer beauty of the place and the lush greenery bowled me over. But what really took my attention were the lovely Parsi bungalows.I vowed to come back and paint. meanwhile my friend Adi did this article on Parsi Colony with these photographs(as shown on link) and I immediately sought his permission to paint one of the balconies.    

Addenda:: My friend Bipasha Bandopadhyay wrote this small poem after seeing this painting:

• PIROUETTING AUTUMN 

  My heart blushed to the rude blast of air, I was surprised as to how my saddened consciousness was so Unaware, 

  Full of great things the autumn Brings, I wish it was Autumn when we first met, because of the autumn leaves falling on us two brutalised souls would have been a nostalgia i would never Forget.

  I stood spellbound an ...onlooker, While you & Autumn romped Free .......

Ella

Oil on canvas

Taking a break from painting flowers is difficult for me. Still, I did it.This is a long term painting. That means it was started long time back. But a lot of water has flown down the bridge since the day I started it. it was lying on the easel beckoning and tempting me everyday. Today, when it looked almost accusingly at me,  I picked up my equally sulking knives and completed it. I think Ella now looks happy. She has also got pride of place on my blog for the world to see!!! Who likes to sit and stay put on the easel when there's a place on the world's easel?

Mine but not mine

 

Some of my art which now hangs on others' walls:( SOLD)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                        

 

It's a mixed feeling to part with one's art. You know it's your baby but you also know that it's someone else's baby now. But it's a feeling of accomplishment at the end of it!