Holiday Sketching

The short, which was supposed to be a winter plus Dussera holidays, has come to an end. I enjoyed it with my son. I am feeling really lonely today without having a little fight over what to do next, he always saying get something to eat, and me asking him to reduce the cartoon channel volume. We did a lot of outing too, only my son and me. We picked a packet of metallic color pencils and did some color pencil sketches with it, here they are.

Calm..

There are many reasons for the birth of this painting. First I was prompted by Deepa to paint, then I was gifted with a fabulous set of colors by my good friend who always encourages me to paint (she is my school mate), and other thing is I am taking part in the event Picture In Your Mind which is hosted by Ikshaa.

I started with a reference photograph. But it turned out to be something else. So I call it my original and picture from my mind. I apologize for disappearing for a long time. I always need a trigger to paint. The triggers can be a good set of paint, a good sketch paper, my mood, and some encouragement. And hence this painting and as always it is not what I expected. I could have done better.

CALM – I was at peace while I finished this piece.

Snow

This is a pencil sketch done with a reference photograph which appeared on a magazine.

Fun Sketching

A jar of goodies. This is done with crayons by my son Sid. As I gave him company for his art work, I did some color pencil sketching which was fun.

Here are my random sketching.

Homebound

This is a scene which I painted from my mind's eye. The inspiration is from a trip I made to Chitradurga recently. Chitradurga is beautiful place with lot of greenery around. I did not like the way I painted the tree. I did this around a month ago, and I took time to like it, that is why the delay to post it. And also I had been neglecting my blog off late and also I have not been going around the other blogs. I had been really busy with work. And of course the recent terror attack also has dampened the spirit a lot.

HorseWagon

This is a reproduced painting using color pencils.

DUSK

This is a usual scene you can see when you travel through Kerala by train. I love to see the silhouette during the late evenings and very early in the morning, the flicker of the tiny lamps shining in the hutments and in the boats which is already set out for their work for the day or returning home in the evenings. This gives me immense happiness. Simply weaving stories how it would be to be living in those beautiful places which is melted so close into the nature.

Don’t ask me what paper I have painted this and when.