Tag: #beginnerartist
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Dhaka Diaries: Art to the rescue
I finished the painting I had started a week before leaving India. Don’t ask me what I was doing painting when I was pressed for time. I painted until 4 days before boarding the flight. I know it sounds crazy or even dramatic when I say I clung to the brush as long as I…
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Art : Wine and fruit
Its been raining heavily in Mumbai since the last few days. When the rains had stopped for a few days in the first week of August, I grieved thst the end of the monsoons had come. It meant that the weather would go back to being hot and humid again. However, our domestic help informed…
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ART: Colors of India
I did this watercolor painting based on a photograph by Hussam Zaki that I found of Pinterest. My second painting from a photograph was challenging yet satisfying once it began taking shape. You’ll see the painting is different from the kind of pictures you’re used to seeing me paint. But I gather as an artist…
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Art : Blue waters
With the monsoon season on in India, I am inclined to paint water in all forms – I painted waterfalls ART : FLOW , raindrops Weekend conversation, art and travel and this week I painted the sea. Its my first attempt at painting these various forms of water and I’m thoroughly fascinated by the way…
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ART : Winter Dreams
I finally picked up my brush again after one and a half months. And since I’m not a trained artist, every time there is a gap, I am filled with dread – with art I’m never quite sure if it’s going to work or not. After an earlier failed attempt at painting flowers, I decided…