189: Watercolor Floral Painting Video Demonstration: Red Hibiscus Flower Bouquet

Red Hibiscus Flower Bouquet...

A video demonstration of the image posted earlier in this blog...

Watercolour on 225 GSM Handmade Paper, 100% Cotton, Chemical free, Rough

20" x 14"

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163: Watercolour Floral Painting: Pink Roses

Pink Roses

Watercolour on 270 GSM Chitrapat Watercolour Paper, 100% Cotton Fibre, Acid free, Texture- Rough

20" x 14"

... The Ubiquitous Roses

... One can never tire of them.... they are here, there & everywhere... in so many varied forms & colours ... Enough fodder for artists to pick up the brush & have a go 😄 

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162: Watercolour Floral Painting: Gokarna - an Indian Creeper

Gokarna... an Indian Creeper

Butterfly Pea, Aparajita

Watercolour on 225 GSM Handmade Paper, 100% Cotton, Chemical free, Rough

20" x 14"

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161: Watercolour Floral Painting: Madhumalati - an Indian Creeper

Madhumalati... an Indian Creeper

Rangoon Creeper...

Watercolour on 225 GSM Handmade Paper, 100% Cotton, Chemical free, Rough

20" x 14"

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160: Watercolour Floral Painting: Hibiscus Flowers

Hibiscus Flower Bouquet...

Watercolour on 225 GSM Handmade Paper, 100% Cotton, Chemical free, Rough

20" x 14"

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155: Watercolour Floral Painting: Lotus Blooms

Lotus Blooms...

Watercolour on 225 GSM Handmade Paper, 100% Cotton, Chemical free, Rough

20" x 14"

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149: Gouache: Colourful Frangipanis

Frangipanis... They are found in various hues n shades... 

Multicoloured ones here are a real treat to the eyes

Gouache on 100 years old Whatman Paper ( a legacy )

14" x 10"

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147: Watercolour: Periwinkles & Others

The evergrowing Periwinkles & other contrasting flowers in subdued tones this time...

Watercolour on 225 GSM Handmade Paper, 100% Cotton, Chemical free, Rough

14" x 10"

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144: Direct Watercolour: Composition

When forces pull you from doing what you would like to do, it turns out fun to run wild with the palette... is what I discovered.

It turned out to be almost "Heaven"!!! ... & I am loving it!!! :D 

Direct Watercolour on 100 year old legacy Whatman Paper

6" x 8"

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142: Direct Watercolour: Floral Composition

When circumstances force you indoors, painting from imagination is your best bet.

Attempting direct watercolour for the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge . 

Keeping up with the daily promise is going to be difficult though under the trying circumstances. 

But making a beginning itself is half the challenge conquered.

Direct Watercolour on Fluid100, cold press 300gsm Watercolour Paper

6" x 8"

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95: Watercolour Painting: Composition- Trellis & The Creeper

One of my earlier paintings... Just a fantasy... A rainbow-coloured sky, a white-painted trellis & a creeper running around & across...

Watercolours on Handmade Cold Press Paper...

14" x 10"

72: Pen & Ink Sketch: From Culvert to Shed

An unlikely sight in a corner of an otherwise well-planned college premise... 

A path leading to a culvert, culvert leading to a quaint little brick-structure with sloping tin-roof... complete with a tree-shadow fallen over it.. 

An artist's delight nevertheless.

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

69: Watercolour Painting: Art & Music fusion-2/2

Early this month, Dr. Martin Clayton & Dr. Laura Leante, ethnomusicologists from Durham University, UK, conducted a workshop on Khayal and Visual Art as part of their research project to which I had the honour of being invited to participate in at Studio7 in Pune.

We, a group of 6 artists of various backgrounds were asked to create works of art based on audio clips of a Khayal in Raag Raageshri, after a brief description of the raag sung by singer Surashree Joshi, a disciple of noted singer Late Smt. Veena Sahasrabuddhe, a leading Indian vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music whose singing style had its roots in Gwalior gharana.

As per the brief by Surashree, Raag Raageshri is supposedly an evening time raag following the swars sa, ga, ma, dha, ni. And so, in this second painting based on this raag, I have tried to bring out the evening mood with the "just rising" moon, an evening pink & blue sky and in the foreground, the five bush foliages in violet, blue, green, orange & red represent the 5 aforesaid swars from the rainbow spectrum alluding to the seven swars of Indian Classical music.

Watercolour on Handmade Paper

Size: 20" x 14"

68: Acrylic Painting: Art & Music fusion-1/2

Early this month, Dr. Martin Clayton & Dr. Laura Leante, ethnomusicologists from Durham University, UK, conducted a workshop on Khayal and Visual Art as part of their research project to which I had the honour of being invited to participate in at Studio7 in Pune.

We, a group of 6 artists of various backgrounds were asked to create works of art based on audio clips of a Khayal in Raag Raageshri, after a brief description of the raag sung by singer Surashree Joshi, a disciple of noted singer Late Smt. Veena Sahasrabuddhe, a leading Indian vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music whose singing style had its roots in Gwalior gharana.

As per the brief by Surashree & the subsequent audio clip, the vibrations I felt while working on this painting were of sheer richness & magnificence of Indian Classical music by itself plus the fact that it used to be aptly performed in the darbars, mahals & havelis of yore. And so, what flowed through my brushes in this one of two paintings was the rich architectural features of these very darbars, mahals & havelis in the form of rich arches & columns etc. Actual rich gold & silver pigments were used to depict this. The steps in the foreground also represent the ups & downs of the swars or notes on the musical octaves that flow throughout the raag. All in all, the feel of the khayal was nothing but simply"Rich".

Acrylics on Oil Paper

Size: A1

64: Video Demo: Gulmohor | Watercolour Landscape Painting-1 | Tutorial Lessons Video | beginners | ...

63: Multimedia Painting: Composition in Black & Yellow

A Gouache Composition of a few Architectural features & natural features...

10" x 14" Handmade Paper

62: Charcoal Sketch: Savitribai Phule Pune University campus...

Charcoal Sketch...

Plein Air

11 1/4" x 8 1/2" 

120GSM Acid Free Medium Surface Heavy Weight Paper

61: Gouache Sketch: Pune University Campus-Lalit Kala Kendra-Centre for Performing Arts

Gouache Sketch on Tinted Paper...

Plein Air...

I enjoy dabbling in all possible mediums of sketching & painting... gouache being one of them... after working in the magic of the translucent watercolours, working in gouache gives you relief... its thick impasto layering can be undaunting as it gives ample scope for rework... gouache works especially well on tinted papers... switching mediums takes away the monotony too!

60: Pen & Wash Sketch: Savitribai Phule Pune University,India - Main building rearside

The Rear of the University building...

Pen & Watercolour Wash...

Plein Air...

11 1/2 " x 8 1/4" 120 GSM Acid-Free Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

58: Pen & Wash Sketch: Shivaji Market, Pune

Shivaji Market, Pune... sketching with the Urban Sketchers Pune Group...

Pen & Wash... 

Plein Air...

8 1/4" x 11 1/2" 

Acid Free 120 GMS Medium Surface Hot-Press paper...

Continuing with my experimentation with rendering of clear glass over tinted glass...

As you do one sketch, another concept comes to mind... will try that in the next one.