Cherry Blossom

This post comes after a long long time. Meanwhile a lot has changed in my life. From a daughter, friend, software engineer, lecturer, wife to this new role of life- the role of mother really a lot has changed. Since mine was a high risk pregnancy I had quit my job the very first month. The doc  advised me complete bed rest, was not allowed to climb min steps or go out of the house even for min check-up. Life had been a little hard those days, but thanks to the constant support of my parents and husband, their unprecedented love life gave me the most beautiful flower of my garden .. my baby.
Motherhood may be a 24x7 job, with no vacations, no holidays, but the best package of the world. His first cry made me forget my pain, his smile makes my day, his day to day tantrums make my bonus, his cute gestures are my perks. its really difficult to take out time for my hobbies but I dont mind.
I had been longing to paint something and finally the other day when he was sleeping in the evening I took courage to bring out my water colors and a sheet of paper. Yes I did not have my acrylic colors and canvas and all my brushes. But I really wanted to paint something. This painting is with just 3 colors (red black and white) and 2 brushes. I hope to get the cherry blossoms much better the next time. Also the photo taken by my phone could not capture the true colors of the painting. better there's always the next time till then this one is for you my son.

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FallAtRockies

Completed this today.. I am satisfied with the mountains, but not very satisfied with the trees.. may be I will retouch them

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The yellow bird

painted this today.. I was planning to paint a goldfinch, but the bird turned out to a bit fatter.. wht say friends??

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Goan Sunset

This one is definitely for you Goa... a very beautiful state which was all the more beautiful in the rains. Although we were not lucky enough to see a Goan sunset (the sky was always cloudy) , but we did see the lush green Goa in the rains.. it was simply superb.

As for the painting, I am not very happy with it.. the waves specially the ones breaking on the shore do not look too convincing.. Sush you have a long way to go.. 

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Peacock wall hanging

Just completed this wall hanging.. I have painted this one on bamboo with acrylic colors. I don't know if I have done justice adding so many colors, but I like it this way. What do you all say friends.. ??

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Cheery blossom vase

This vase I had painted when I was a school student. It was a simple floral bengali style alpona(rangoli) design in white on a mud color background. Recently I was totally bored of the age old pattern. So this time when I visited home , tried re-painting the vase.

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The Solitary Hut

Its after a long long time I am back at my space. Believe me I really missed blogging. Since I am still busy with quite a many stuffs and changes I may disappear now and then.
A big Thanks to all blog buddies who regularly visited my space and gave their previous comments. Sorry for not replying to all of you. Sorry to all my blogger friends for not commenting to all your beautiful posts.
Meanwhile in my busy schedule I could not stop myself from painting. This painting is primarily my version of   a Nicholas Hankins painting. The original is of course heavenly. Hope I could do a bit of justice to it.

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Together we

Completed this painting a few days back. Swans are beautiful creatures. Loved painting them.

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Snowy foothills

I had painted this one a few days back but wanted to add a few details here and there. Finally i completed this today. A chilly snowy winter evening at the foothills

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Spring at foothills

My version of a Bob Ross painting. I wish I could watch all his TV series, amazing artist and an equally amazing personality. He made painting such a fun with his patent phrases like "Happy little cloud" or "Lets give a friend to this tree".

Regarding the painting, I am not very satisfied. May be it was because of Acrylics which dry to quick, I am not able to blend colors as I want. May be I should try with oils now.

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Morning glory and blue bird

Painted this today. A bluebird among-st morning glories.
I was not able to justice to the leaves, but quite satisfied with the bird and flowers.

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Breezy seaside

This is my first effort at painting a seascape. I always feared painting waves. Somehow I had the feeling that painting waves would be a disaster. But after trying different landscapes I couldn't avoid painting a sea. Having said that, today I have just painted a very distance sea. Next time I am going to paint seascape, it would be crashing waves in details. But before that I need to study the anatomy of crashing waves. Lets see what Google and YouTube can provide me.

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The mountains

Its almost a year since I have restarted painting.  Now I realize how immature my paintings were a year back , lacking all the technical details. I am trying to learn all these technicalities and I still have a long long way to go. In between I switched from watercolors to acrylic. Its fun to work with acrylics, although it dries off way too fast, its forgiving as well. If you make mistakes you can easily rectify by re-painting over it.
This is a painting on 11 x 14 canvas, with acrylic. The second one is with the flash on.
Pitfalls :
I still cant get the clouds correct.. :( .
The green color is a little too over  powering. 

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A tranquil Sunrise

Although I did learn sketching, I never really learnt painting. At my drawing classes, saw girls and boys learning oil painting. At home during free time , I usually tried my hand with the poster colors. 

Now I yearn to learn painting. There are so many technicalities of which I had no idea before. I have been watching a few videos of Wilson Bickford at youtube. He is a professional artist and teacher. Wish I could learn from him personally. His paintings are amazing and inspire me with different ideas. This painting is inspired from one of his paintings. 

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Romantically moonlit

The full moon always captivates me. I believe that "Chaandi" चांदनी (Full moon in hindi) magically transforms even the ordinary things to pure beauty. Since childhood I had cherished this dream of visiting and seeing the TAJ on a full moon night. What magic the full moon does to the grandeur of TAJ, I cant imagine.

There is this park in Gwalior Phool Bag(hope its still there). So one such चांदनी रात of a lazy balmy summer, my parents and I had gone to this PhoolBag to enjoy the cool summary night breeze. And while taking walk along the lanes of the park, I saw the beautiful full moon with a solitary leaf bare tree in its foreground. The scene made quite impact. Summer it was , with no homework and studies, so the moment we came back that night after our evening stroll, I took out my poster colors and drawing book and painted the scene engraved in my memory. I really don't know why I had painted it in monochrome. 

While doing this painting those memories came rushing into my mind.

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Sunrise

A splendid sunrise by the river..

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Fall Colors In Acrylic

Roaring waterfall by the mountains

Fire everywhere

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Blooms n Blooms

I love flowers.. and love to paint them.

Iris Flower.. 

Hibiscus

Being new to Acrylic paints (before I always painted with water colors), I have to go a long way before I am comfortable with Acrylics. Tried a few flowers with Acrylic but not satisfied.

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The solitary abode

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Sunset by the shore

Sunset by the shore

This is my first Acrylic painting. Little different from water colors, I thoroughly enjoyed painting with the acrylic paints.

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