Tag: #life
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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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Thursday 070324- Doors, flowers, reviews, gratitude and more
I couldn’t share a post last Thursday for the ‘Thursday Doors’ challenge, hosted by Dan Antion, as I was at an exhibition of Benarasi silks held at the Le Meridien hotel in Dhaka. This was my first experience at such an exhibition and I needed a lot of coaxing to go for it. I’m glad…
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Of parks, flowers, poetry and news: Tanka Tuesday 060324, Jo’s Monday Walk
Tired of walking in the park in front of home which has a bookstore, a coffee shop and green trees but barely any flowers, I coaxed my husband to walk up to the Gulshan Lake Park which is a kilometre away from home. The roads were strewn with leaves as if it were Autumn. The…
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Book Review 05/50- The Parcel by Anosh Irani
This book took me longer than normal. No, it’s not long, and no, it’s not dull. It’s difficult to stomach. It talks of the hard reality that transgenders faced in India prior to the law being passed in 2014, sex trade, and child trafficking. The book is a detailed account of the Red Light district…
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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…