Coffeeday

What am I trying to do here,what is my focus and the visual statement..a desire to paint loose and abstract..pleasing large audience..painting light......coffee.. or..just shutpnpaint..

Sunset

I don't usually paint sunsets,whenever I tried somehow painting looks too melodramatic for my liking .This one mix media ,I am quiet happy with the look..what say..

examination point

we usually have our last day session of my workshop at this spot.A nice corner opp University building ,lot of us can sit together and paint.This is usually the outdoor session of my watercolor course and I insist students to work without looking at what I am doing.a sort of exam for them
coincidentally the building we paint happens to be a corner of exam department of Univ.
the paper used here is montval which is bad, slippery paper made for watercolor.the bad paper sometimes challenges to bring the better in you.

Deserted or peaceful

Manali Roofs

"faithfulness in emotional life and consistency in a life of an intellectual is one and the same thing
a confession of failure."
Oscar Wild character Lord Henry says something like this. A consistently great quality and wins can be a management virtues but in art you have to be a "loos"er from time to time to go further..

Villege n Nasik

Almost a travel back in time.It is going to be more and more "not" possible to see anything like this.
Though I have painted this one in my usual style I have very carefully added lots of details like tiled roof(you can even count them)bricks and little stones on the ground.
Details is a tricky thing..they can damage more than contribute, many a times.
Yet I believe as long as the tonal mass is not disturbed they can add up as texture ind interest..

Behinde Taj

painted in three colors as you see the three awnings in red ,yellow and blue.
the rest part is all neutrals mixed these three. a good harmony ,is it not..

SP remembering M C Escher

had fun doing this ..may be this can become a new SP global challenge..those interested in Escher check http://www.mcescher.com/

another study

some one long back said In every artist's studio you will find studies are often better than finished paintings .sadly true or not but sometimes if we are too happy with the study we never want to do a finished painting

digging some past

this is rather an old sketch done on the spot.digging some old stuff to remind myself. outdoor sketching is good fun,need not aim for a painting all the time..

Cartoon man

Painted from a photo from Rajastan a friend of mine had clicked.The man in the picture ,I am sure is very learned and wise but somehow his very long face and look made me call him a cartoon man.
the paper used was HP and so smooth that my brush would almost slip on it.on the other hand this slippery challenge made me to be on my tows.I am happy .
S.P. was good challenge..now I enjoy painting faces even more...portrait ..no big deal.

Corridor painted

this is an acrylic version of one of my old fav. watercolor which hung at AWS.

this..guy in the mirror

these are relatively better attempts..
I had tough time painting this one as my model was too unstable.He constantly kept looking up and down ,moving his head to and fro not to mention squinting his eyes.
my wife did not say"He looks almost but not quiet unlike me".In fact she agreed he looks quiet familiar,..confused and lost.
hats off to those who have painted "him" more successfully.(him?..who..oh him)
Please check many other paintings at "Self Portrait Global Love In" at http://spgloballovein.blogspot.com/

PROGRSS

this one is relatively and old painting called"progress".guess we have progressed even further by now.

architexture

Not really so much texture to be called so but I am trying to create some shapes of color and patterns of architecture. not sure as yet whether complete but for the time being.. yes

Happy accident

you know what I mean..

just trees..?

Being mostly the urban stuck,I am more of an architectural landscape ,city scape artist.

I was a bit unsure about the sucess of these two attempts. wondering either there is no object as such to paint or just one tree as an object..?on the other hand a painting is all about shapes color and tone and finding beauty of pattern and a feeling that it can generate.

believe these two are not bad..

PANHALA EUPHORIA

Had a great plien(chk spelling) air watercolor workshop recently at "Panhala". Theplace,the weather and light was just perfect. Once again there was a revelation that nothing in the world is better than painting plien air. We had a wonderful crowd of young minds, enjoyed full day painting sessions, food as well as after hour sessions. Amidst the nature and the enthusiasm of crowd can be summed up in a feeling which can easily be called euphoria

tekadi path

20"x22" mix media,the support is the paper called as duplex board around here has a grey surface.
after initial washes of grass and kind of foliedge I carefully did the tree branches.
the last part was painting the sky in between the branches with thick opaque blue pinkyellows.
why did i paint the branches first and then the sky in between filling negtive areas?

jyotiba again

here's acrylic version of this man I had painted in watercolor long back.check my old posts.
here mdf panel thinly white gessoed not to loose the entire absorbency.
as for myself I am thrilled with bold and raw brushstuff...I am preparing for self face paint off.
all you pl. check David's blog http://davidlobenberg.blogspot.com/2009/05/ahoy-all-artist-wh-would-like-to.html