My copied peaches!!!
>> Friday, October 24, 2008
So this is going to be the post before I leave for holidays.
More after I come back
Am going to learn to sketch while I am there if I manage time.
I painted/copied peaches
>> Wednesday, October 22, 2008
So here I was trying to learn how to paint the glazes on fruits and vegetables. For some god knows what reason I can hardly discern the various subtle color tints in this section of subjects. the look like a plain solid colors. But after I have started to paint them suddenly apple is not just red and orange not just well orange!
So atleast I have evolved( I like the sound of that term in this context) as an amateur.
Will post the images pretty soon. I am also trying out some landscape which is totally my color compositions and we will see how it comes out. I am waiting to complete it before this weekend before I head out for the diwali festivities.
For those who are not aware of this festival if you google it you will know that it is synonymous with being a festival of lights.
Though as a child I used to take the whole atmosphere for granted, it is only after I had been away that I realized how much I was used to it.
I will try to capture some sounds and images before it whizzes past in this week.
I painted from memory aided by Pictures!!!
>> Friday, October 17, 2008
Agreed it is not a master piece.
1. It is one of my first pseudo plein air
2. Made brown on the palette. Not the ready made pigment.
When the journey is this picturesque
>> Tuesday, October 14, 2008
It was fun seeing these beautiful views on our way. There were many more(to tempt people) but I could not convince D to stop at all the places I wanted to click pictures!!!
Poor guy was more interested in getting me to the beach in time to hop around (incidentally he managed to do it ). It was real sweet of him to plan this trip (actually squeeze it in our jam-packed oct schedule and not even complain about it).
so hurrah!!!
Ofocurse I am going to try and sketch it. Wish me luck!!!
Watercolor???
Look at these
I am really amazed at these. They roughly can resemble impressionistic abstract paintings.
Sadly these are not those but more in reality images taken from a moving car!!!
Reality just stumps down what they could have been...
“Play in the sand; splash in the water; get dirty; get wet. The beach is the only place my mom doesn’t get mad about me doing that stuff. Of course I
“Play in the sand; splash in the water; get dirty; get wet. The beach is the only place my mom doesn’t get mad about me doing that stuff. Of course I love the beach!”
--Dixie Dykens (age 5)
Well I am all for the "Beach Therapy". I don't knwo what it is about a beach that gets me all pumped up and jumping to go into the water (ofcourse I have some stipulations of showers/rooms being nearby) and at the same time, listen to the waves.!!!
Needless to say, Yes I have been to the beach this weekend. It is a place called Ganpatiphule.
It also served as my first actual plein air experience. But to my dismay it also taught me how i was not fully prepared for the experience. I will ofcourse be smarter after this experience. It is all about having the right things.
Also though i enjoyed the experience completely I right now do not that the courage to flaunt my sketch. It does not seem all that appealing (like 'other people's usually does'.).
But I got back some of the beach in the shells and sand. I got some of the most beautiful views!!! And I got recharged and also more raring and daring to go onto another plein air experience.
Here are some of the nice snaps
I have painted
>> Friday, October 10, 2008
Well I am now trying to graduate to making my own renditions from real life, memory or pictures. (Like I say, I am trying not that I have succeeded completely). But this exercise in itself is a lot of learning. Not that I have plenty of time to devote to this but my wish list for the trailing end of the year would be two uninterrupted days of entirely doodling and painting!( Is it possible?)
Well I have not had the time to photograph the one solo watercolor and two inks that I have done. ( well with the inks i think it is more a lack of courage with lack of time).
But will be back the coming week with lots of pictures (traveling again- this time to a beach. Am looking forward to being able to atleast get one decent plein air).
Family!!!
>> Monday, October 6, 2008
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” (-Erma Bombeck)
I had family (through relationship) visiting this weekend and this quote just popped by me today while I was reading something. It strikes the exact chord in anyone who was observing how we interact with families. Our very own (which we were born with) or adopted(through relationships). Funnily it is the common thread factor that I was noticing at times and missing out at times between them.
It is really worth pondering that we are brought up together till a certain adulthood and then we separate ways to follow our own destinies at times. We pass through different circumstances and sieves in our travels about time. We loose some sameness and some common thread becomes more defined and prominent. Then whenever we have the time and opportunity to regroup, to see where we all are in that thread and how much sameness we retained!!!
I think it is because of this close upbringing, that we can at times predict "Why he behaves this way...", "How will she react?"
The same things that a spouse would be able ot predict after living together for some period of time.
But it is interesting to observe still.
Tried this?
>> Wednesday, October 1, 2008
I tried Wordle on the blog today.
This is a neat new(because i discovered it today) thing that I have found to fiddle with.
I like the whole concept of weighing the words with their frequencies in a particular paragraph.
From this I can guess that i use started a lot. Though that can be explained, I cannot think of explaining parameters!!!!
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