A journey and experience with brush and ink on rice paper..  attempting Chinese painting ..breaking barriers within myself...

My friend and I were discussing that she would love to own one picture that said peace...Buddha crossed our minds but we did not mention it to each other... but discussed how she would like it in her place of work and that she could carry it where ever she went ..12x16 (A3 ish) is what we agreed upon.. for some reason i sent her a note and asked her if she would like a Buddha with a blue hue... she went ... mmmm i immediately knew that was not it..THIS was it...Krishna for me associates with passion.. but in this pic he is lost to his tune and is at peace .

FIREFLIES- if you really catch a firefly and look at it, it is not such a pleasant sight.. in Kodai we lived next to a small stream.. yes like in fairy tales and romantic stories...loved the sound of that running brook.  We had many a bonfires in the night next to it.. sigh.. and those fireflies would hang around that water in the night ..  what a sight it was..

A warm day

A warm day...........

WARRIOR

WARRIOR... valor is another thing that i think any woman would wah wah ga ga over...started making the pic but ran out of paper on the right side... still thot it conveys all i want to say ....

This geometric pic is on the wall of our bathroom.. while i was dusting and cleaning up the children's worktable i found umpteen no of bits of crayons and i m this geek who seldom will throw away something..it also catches up in my kitchen.. i always make the leftovers look so good by turning them into something else...( thats what my family says and dreads too maybe)... so took them to the bathroom and created this pic ...love the marigold the most...

Another pic that has been carelessly kept , this has been lying around me for decades..its traveled with me from Hubli  to wherever i took it and dumped it...I made this pic when i was just 11 yrs old.... i wanted to learn oil paining on canvas...so i decided to go to someone who will teach me.

The teacher looked at me and said you should start with painting some flowers then take on object painting.  I looked up at her and did not like her one bit.  I told her i can paint anything i only want to learn a few things i dont know about oil painting.. i sounded like one arrogant child...so she looked at me and asked where do you want to start.. i showed her this pic made by a french artist -Renoir..and said i want to paint that lady and the dog...she gave a look that i must be off my rocker or somthin...i looked up and said i know how to sketch by using a grid... i will sketch it, you just need to guide me to paint can you help me please.??.. she hesitated for a long time and said she will charge me more for doing this.. i said ok .. and we set off... in two weeks - every day for 1 1/2 hours..we worked on it..we finished it , she taught me many things while i sketched, and painted my pic.. we became friends too... we chatted and i also helped her with other children when they came while i was there .. mostly i was enjoying myself.. and here she is holding her dog and looking up at it since then....