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My art assignments, projects, challenges and work in progress can be found on this blog. The finished work moves to Maya, my other blog.
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Odosketch
Not sure whether I saw the reference to the Odosketch website on twitter, fb or one of the blogs I visited a few days back. I surf with at least 15 odd tabs open on my browser and some remain open for days. Back to the subject, Odosketch is an o...
Pattern : Illustration Friday
Pattern. Face after face. Follows a pattern, a formula. Actually it is more like a guideline. First to learn then to forget. I didn’t get that when I was learning it. How was I supposed to forget? The eyes to be centered from the top of t...
Underdogs
Looking forward to indulging myself for a while and going back to experimenting and learning. I now have a fairly large image bank of photos taken by friends and me. When I saw the ref for this it brought to mind the image that you see above and...
Honesty
I’m on week three, day two of the twelve week journaling programme from Julia Cameron’s book, “The Artists Way“. All kinds of thoughts and ideas are bubbling into my head and spilling over into the notebooks filled with my...
A new country
My blog crossed the 1,00,000 hits mark and didn’t even get a mention here from me but I did notice. Life has been hurtling along at an unbelievable pace. It’s been action packed and for most part hugely enjoyable. I’m happy that I m...
In search of a perfect model
There are a few subjects that I never tire of repeating and one of them is of my husband sleeping. It all started when I began looking for a model to practise my newly acquired life drawing and painting skills. I needed one who’d be able to h...
An offering
I was quite busy during the run up to my first solo exhibition and had stopped painting a couple of weeks before. When I came back home, from the opening on a high, all I could think of doing was to start painting again. I got down to it only a few...
Printmaking at Charukala – 1 – Lithography
Time is short and I should be packing but I’ve been sneaking across to the art college to take a few prints. After I was told that there will be a drought as far as printmaking is concerned in Colombo, I couldn’t stop myself. Rokeya Sultana,...
Rest in Peace
Ref. Source : Newsweek Cover – Jul 6 – 13, 2009 Posted in 2009, ujwala ...
Shaky : Illustration Friday
Shaky beginnings. Test prints of my first two woodcuts. I still haven’t been able to wrap my head around the fact that what is positive in drawing is negative in relief prints. I’ll get there someday For the first piece I’...
I’m back & the Dhamrai Rath Yatra
It’s been a long break. I have been around and looking in but things have been moving at a hectic pace. Since the last post, I’ve had a solo exhibition, a holiday, a finished SoFoBoMo project, rounds of farewell parties for friends an...
Impossibility : Illustration Friday
9 heads on one body, an impossibility! _________________________________________________________________ Check out many more interpretations at Posted in 2009, ujwala ...
Projects
(drypoint photos - cleaned plate, inked plate, first proof on the press, first proof) I’m looking at working on a few plates during the two month printmaking course, at UODA, with Shahid Kabir. This piece is a drypoint and is to keep me busy w...
Subtract : Illustration Friday
Everytime I add to a painting I subtract something from what was before. Not being in the stage where i can bring it back keeps me worrying about the next session I’m hoping it will get easier sometime soon. I found that working digitally...
Life Drawing @ Kuhu’s
sketch book, cartridge paper, 18″ X 12″ warm up sketch. we had two one hour power cuts and so there was a problem with lighting but we managed to get some work done. brown paper, 30″ X 48″ i’m just happy to be back at ...
Life drawing after a long break
Attended a Life drawing session yesterday after a long break. While I’ve worked with this model before it was tough to start again, especially when dealing with proportions. We started late and had to leave early and so managed just one 15-...
Intricate : Illustration Friday
I see the results and not the intricate workings of my brain or why it took me from stage one to a different stage two. Mind you, i’m not complaining, I prefer the brighter colours! In case you’re wondering the man in the painting is smok...
Time : Illustration Friday
I cant step back to an earlier stage for this oil painting that I recently completed, on canvas. Had I been making it digitally it would have been easy for me rewind to a few days earlier. Digitally it is possible to get back in time. ____________...
What’s wrong with that?
You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it isnt so. Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And whats wrong with that? Silly Love Songs by Paul McCartney Once, every few ...
Climbing : Illustration Friday
In less than a month I’ll be completing 5 years since I started drawing and painting again, in earnest. I’m glad that I still want to climb this ladder unlike the corporate one that I gave up on so long ago. ____________________________...
Pale : Illustration Friday
I’m on the last book of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers - a teeny bopper romance about vampires. Edward, the hero and a vampire, has been described as pale and beautiful and paler with red rimmed dark eyes when he is thirsty. i havent...
Contained : Illustration Friday
It hasnt taken much to keep the child contained within me happy since i started drawing and painting. _________________________________________________________________ Check out many more interpretations on Posted in illustration &...
Yellow is my favourite colour
Came across this Tarot Card test while surfing Vivien’s blog Paintings Prints and Stuff and couldnt resist taking the test too You are The Sun Happiness, Content, Joy. The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent. Young, hea...
Portraits : Pencil and Pen & Ink
Normally for my pen & inks I use the pen lightly to make a rough drawing before going in further to add the shading and edges. While it is relatively easy to recover from the minor errors, others will have you wanting to start afresh. After r...
Mr Bean at an Art Class
Mr Bean has never been one of my favourite shows and I usually avoid watching it. I preferred Rowan Atkinson in the Black Adder series and even in the Thin Blue Line. All these I have watched because of a husband who is fond of Rowan Atkinson and ...
Opinion : Illustration Friday
In my opinion there’s a bit of George Bush, Alfred E Newman and traces of a beard in this sketch. All not wanted and unintentional. Posted in 2008, Challenges, IF, Illustration Friday, ujwala ...
Shubha Mudgal Concert
Shubha Mudgal burst into the Indi Pop scene in the late 1990’s and was a big, big hit. The albums Ab ke Sawan and Pyar ke Geet are still amongst my faves. I heard her first as an Indi Pop artiste and later learnt that she is a very go...
Pretend : Illustration Friday
Pretend you’re happy when you’re blue It isn’t very hard to do And you’ll find happiness without an end Whenever you pretend Remember anyone can dream And nothing’s bad as it may seem The little things you haven’t ...
Vacant : Illustration Friday
Positions Vacant? Unfortunately, this coming year this is going to be a well thumbed section in the newspapers. The piece is titled “Shades of Grey” - don’t believe everything that you read in the newspapers. As the first though...
Repair : Illustration Friday
Results of a monotype experiment. Problems caused by paper shake and then by some fast drying acrylic paint! : ) I have saved both thinking that I might try and repair them one day. ________________________________________________________________...
