Tag: #Acrylicpainting
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Tanka Tuesday 26.3.24, Art Diaries : The girl in the yellow dress
This week for the tanka tuesday challenge hosted by Colleen Chesebro, I’m writing a series of tanka. The weather is cool in Dhaka. It’s been raining and we’ve had thunderstorms, lightning and short bursts of rain. I used the kigo word ‘Birds enter clouds’. ‘Tranquil Dawn’ and ‘Holi’ which is the festival of colors celebrated…
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Art and Poetry: Sunflowers & Tanka Tuesday 120324
This time I tried painting sunflowers despite the fact that I find flowers the most challenging to paint. I think it’s being able to show the soft texture of the petals, the fluidity and the many shades of colors that makes it a tough subject for me. As I struggled with the painting and it…
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Art diaries: Mugs of joy
Like I said in my earlier post, I’ve run out of cotton canvas sheets for painting. I have asked someone who’s traveling from India to get them for me. However, as I didn’t want the lack of sheets to put a spoke in my painting wheel that’s just got moving, I decided to use paper. In…
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Art Diaries : In the country & Tanka Tuesday: No. 23, 2/27/24
Like I said in my earlier post, I’ve been working on my art. Last week, I did a value study in grey of a photograph of the countryside and then I did the same one in color. It’s only when I finished this painting did I realize that I have no more canvas cloth. I…
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Stream of Consciousness Saturday 18.11.23
I woke up to this glorious sight this morning and the one thought that crossed my mind was , ‘Thank God for sunrises.’ Here’s a stream of consciouness poem that this sight gave birth to Today’s sky line There’s a line in the skyMade of fluffy cloudsLike Lakshman’s rekhaOver the golden globe. It hovers, tightly…