Tag: #Art

• My 2023: Part1-Books, Art and Travel

  

  It’s that time of the year when you look back and take stock of the year gone and make plans for the coming year. Did I say plans? Oops! I’m not making any plans. Because, 2023 taught me not to make plans because plans are what you make if you want God to have a…

  Smitha V

  December 28, 2023

  Art, Book Review, Experiences, Travel

  #2023, #Art, #books, #family, #gratitude, #hope, #life, #painting, #past, #reading, #reviews, #thankfulthursday, #travel, #travelogue, #truth, #yearinreview, Book Review, writing

• 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…

  Smitha V

  November 18, 2023

  Art, Experiences, Poetry

  #Acrylicpainting, #Art, #blogaday, #blogger, #clown, #dhakadiaries, #gratitude, #life, #nature, #prompt, #SoCs, #streamofconsciousnesssaturday, #sunrise, #truth

• Published : 2 poems in Lothlorien Journal

  

  I’m thrilled to share two of my poems published in th Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Both poems are centered around art. The first one is from the point of view of a novice artist and the second, is an ekphrastic poem based on the painting Bathers at Asnières’ by Georges Pierre Seurat. Here are a few lines from…

  Smitha V

  October 12, 2023

  Art, Poetry

  #Acrylicpainting, #Art, #artoftheday, #bathers, #blankcanvas, #colours, #ekphrasticpoem, #fearofcraft, #georgeseurat, #hues, #lothlorienjournal, #noviceartist, #poetry, #published, #tones

• Art: The Simple Life, Tanka Tuesday, Festival of leaves challenge

  

  My painting, ‘The Simple Life’ is a fishing village somewhere in Europe. My last few paintings have been done without pencil sketching i.e. I’ve applied the paint directly on the blank canvas and gone about painting the picture from a photograph. I especially enjoyed painting the boats. It’s something since I’ve wanted to paint since…

  Smitha V

  October 10, 2023

  Art, Poetry

  #Acrylicpainting, #Art, #blogaday, #CFFC, #festivalofleaves, #fishingvillage, #fotd, #kigo, #kouta, #poetry, #TankaTuesday, #wordcraftpoetry

• Art: Girls on the Bridge, Tanka Tuesday Seasonal poetry challenge

  

  This painting is part of my attempt to create a diary of my visit to Norway (you can read about my travel here) by painting pictures of things I saw there. It could be the landscape or a structure or flowers or by replicating a painting done by a famous artist. ‘Three girls on the…

  Smitha V

  September 22, 2023

  Art, Poetry

  #acquarello, #Art, #artist, #artoftheday, #edvardmunch, #girlsonthebridge, #haiku, #inspiration, #kigo, #kigo words, #nature, #poetry, #practice, #seasonalwords, #TankaTuesday, #watercolours