Oil on Paper: Part 2

Into the sea

I am not good at painting human faces. So for a long time, I painted nature, abstract etc. But humans are the most expressive creature on this earth. They speak not only with the words, but through their eyes, hands, postures, and even what they put on. If I can not paint a face, I’ll paint everything else which is a associated with a human.

I wanted to make this one gloomier than it turned out. A lady gazing into the sea and the the sunset on a beach. There is something peaceful about this painting.  May be it is the sea green color of the water, or maybe it is her stare into the nothingness. Who cares when the creation is this beautiful 🙂

Medium: Oil colors
Paper: Canson XL Series Oil and Acrylic Paper Pad, 11″x14″
Tools: Brushes flat (1″ & 0.5″), round (No. 1, 4, 6)

Into the sea

Inspired by Monika Luniak’s artwork.

Oil on paper: Part 1

Wildflowers

There is a small tunnel near my house. It occasionally has water, lets say for less than a month in a year. Yet it is so blossomed with bushes, flowers and wilds. And god they are colorful. You will be surprised to find a pastel corner at the side of a tunnel. Surrounding is gross, no doubt about that. Wildflowers are mesmerizing, no doubt about that either!

Medium: Oil colors
Paper: Canson XL Series Oil and Acrylic Paper Pad, 11″x14″
Tools: Knife

P.S.: This was my first successful attempt of oil colors.

Wildflowers

Photograph I: Flowers- Just like Us!

Pink

Unnamed flower

Pink Begonias

Red rose in a sire dictionary page

I always thought photography in an art. But it’s a skill. The art is looking through a frame and see what others could not. We always see flowers, of all kinds, potted and wild, real and fake, beautiful and pale. But what we usually fail to see is how they are alike us, sometimes withered, sometimes bright and shiny and sometimes not real. They are full of colors, of diverse colors, covering the whole spectrum. And you could find them growing in varied places, And you would wonder how they are so beautiful irrespective of it.

Pink

I clicked this one in local farm store, potted, kept on a wooden bench. This pink flower was different. Not too bright and not too dull. Just existing. In its own corner. Still the contrast it created with the dark green leaves, made it worth clicking.
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Unnamed flower

This one I clicked in Niagara, Buffalo. It was a tiny thing struggling with the currents leading the almighty falls, trying to sustain itself. Just like us! And it was so beautiful. Purple and yellow. Boy, flowers do know some things about being fashionable. It was the only flower in the bunch which wasn’t dying. They were so close to water, yet drying. Excess of somethings isn’t always good. Is it?
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Red rose in a sire dictionary page

Here you have a vintage looking rose on an old dictionary page. In the wide family of flowers, rose has an unique place. And a red one is a symbol of love, an emotion that holds us in good and bad times. It reminds me of that rose in Beauty and the beast. Ah I am a sucker for romance. You will say it is just a drawing. I say why does it matter. A rose is a rose. I feel happy when I see it. I bet you too. Haven’t we been unreal from time to time. Flowers also has a right to be. All that counts is that that it is beautiful even in its simplicity, reminding you of a beautiful time.
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Pink Begonias

This was in the same farm market. I guess I had a thing for pink that time. They were beautiful and silent, minding their own business. And who does not like hanging planters. It made me feel like I am wondering in an European street. I like this picture more due to the blurred background. The path is beautiful whether you know or don’t where it is leading you to. Doesn’t it all that matters?

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-P

 

Au revoir

Old yellow houses and their broken window pane,
in a sync on both sides of a pale narrow lane.
Red flower pots with petunia and begonia spiraling down,
a smell of fresh coffee and burning tinge of cinnamon.
The lady in black rushing as if to catch a train,
breaking the silence in my head those little drops of rain.
A girl in brown boots and a guy with shiny brown cane,
her fingers fidgeting with his iffy hands on that old bench.
As if words are being exchanged in morse code,
aloof from the rain, the mud and the ugly toad.
As if the storm of thoughts are rushing through them,
his eyes staring into hers decoding the silence of mayhem.
Oblivious to bespattered with mud thrown by that rusty car,
Her fist now resting calmly in his still iffy palms saying au revoir.

-Pallavi

Acrylic on Canvas: Part 4

Theme: Christmas

Christmas lights on canvas: Stretched canvas on wood of size 12”*12”

This is the first time I was using stretched canvas and I wanted something beautiful to paint on it. So here comes the third layer of painting over this sheet. The textures are from previous painting which luckily is providing the rocky look of wall on which the decorative lights has been hung. The bokeh effect on the left side has been created with glazing medium. Some lights seems to be far and fainter while some nearer and brighter. Christmas decorations are hung with pearl strings with snowflakes and lights in it. The blue and mauve color used in the background creates a mysterious night aura.

Golden Snowflakes: Canvas of size 12”*12”

Well silver snowflakes are too mainstream. So here comes my golden snowflakes. On a white canvas, I used fabric glue which gets transparent after drying. The one on left-bottom is the regular snowflakes (inspired from frozen 🙂 ) The half snowflakes is the really decorative. The use of a bit of mauve color has made this snowflakes an antique. The other snowflakes is getting distorted and an imperfect one. Well what is perfect in this imperfect world. 😉 Out of the three the antique one is my favourite.

Pinky spirals: Canvas of size 6”*8”
Glue is becoming an obsession for me. Here I have used Pink and white fabric colors to make these spirals. I didn’t plan on this. It just came on canvas. Some whites, some pinks, some pinkish whites and some whitish pink. And I just love the pink sprinkles originating from top-right corner.

And this is the full view of my painting table. Cheers!!

-Pallavi