Summer Geraniums

I am back from my voyage of the deep daily grind and have resurfaced to share one of my old but cheerful water colors called Summer Geraniums. I gave it this name when I discovered that the geraniums got deeper in color as the summer progressed,  and these ones were my favorite color

All reasonable comments are welcome!

Inspired from the Past for the Future

These four paintings are a set I painted to express what I would like to see in the future of our planet- filled with animals, birds and color. The colors and shapes are inspired from different tribal art that I have seen in different parts of the world. Although they are a wish for the future they are inspired from the past !

Alive again !

I am alive again in my pursuit of art and have managed to create a water color after a few months of not even being able to touch a paintbrush. It feels good to breathe again figuratively of course !

Acrylics that remind of India

So the lazy painter is back to update with some old work that feels new!

Spring is here and I have been daydreaming about my past vacations in India and could not resist posting these two very old acrylics that I had painted almost 5 years ago after a visit to Rajasthan

They depict a woman in a rural setting and also highlight the colors worn in that region. Being a desert area the people tend to prefer deep bright colors in clothing to add a bit of color to their lives in an otherwise barren landscape

It is this region that is also famous for its vegetable dyes and block printing and tie dyeing fabrics in bright colors. The tie-dyeing process has a specific name called 'Bandhini"

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Change has come... And how !

I am so inspired by the presidential inauguration and the great mood that I decided to write on the blog and share some of the great spirit of freedom and freshness that I felt

Since a change has finally come... I decided to share some of my pencil sketches that show landscapes that try to display a sense of openness and freedom, a feeling of natural grandeur and fresh air.

I use some of these sketches as projects for my art students and get great enthusiasm from them.

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The joy of light at the end of the tunnel

So after a great election and a great celebration of light at the end of the tunnel I thought I should break my silence on the blog

Here is one of my paintings that celebrates the festival of lights and shows a traditional women from India lighting lamps to celebrate 'Diwali ' the Hindu festival of lights that signifies the beginning of a new era and the end of a dark period

This is an older painting and is an acrylic painting on canvas framed in a wooden frame

As usual all reasonable comments are welcome!

Waiting : A Set of two in Acrylic

So summer is here at last and the benevolent sunshine is bestowing its heat liberally over everything. So ends a period of "Waiting" for high temperatures and barbecueing and water sports and so on, that was my attempt at introducing my next set of acrylics called "Waiting"

These are also from my collection of old paintings and I have actually used Craft acrylic paints, not even good quality acrylics on these two paintings. Still they don't seem so bad considering that they were created so inexpensively. Enjoy, I would welcome any well intentioned feedback and comments