Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Painting - The process



           





































Ok, this is my home. And this is my main room. I don't paint without my TV on.
Pehle, the grid.


Fir, Simple pencil sketch. This time with a blue pencil, but not recommendable.


Pehla color banaya, base coat. 


Agle din, pehla layer poora. Sookhne diya 3-4 din.


Ok, next din, aur thoda timepaas.


The nose, and the wrinkles, probably the most tedious part, although doesn't look like that.


Ok, I skipped a few days, and forgot taking photos. Did continuous work for a day or two I guess.


Background sabse pain, didn't know what to do, so went with blue.


Pehla version, didn't suit it much though (I don't know).


Let's change.


Finally.


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Rajasthani Man in Turban by Rahul Jain is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Friday, 4 October 2013

Saturday, 17 August 2013

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Friends



Its 5:30 am in the morning. And you are in tears.

Because sometimes it is best to say a warm goodbye. 
Because you have to let your hands go; 
because they are tired of holding on to something, that has always been your support,
because now you are moving on,
because now you will be alone, till you get tired of holding on to something again.

Because sometimes, goodbyes are not enough. 


#f.r.i.e.n.d.s.

Sunday, 9 June 2013

Kathakali Dancers


Kathakali Dancers

Oil Painting on Canvas

I remember the width being nearly 55 cm but I don't remember the length (It was something about in 3: 9 ratio or something). 

I was home this summers for nearly a month (I had to extend my stay to complete this.) and had an empty canvas with me. So I was surfing net when I came across a beautiful photograph depicting many kathakali dancers. It was then I thought that I should do something big, on a large scale with minute details.




Did I end with something that I intended to ? I kept on looking into my laptop screen, searching for the details, and replicating them, or modifying them. 




But when after a work of many days, I looked at it, I realized the details I was working were lost on the scale of the canvas, and I started thinking whether it was worth the effort I was putting in. The details probably would not even be observed. But I had to complete what I had created, in the way I had started; Consistency is essential.

And it ended up something like this.