Ethnic colors

Indian-rangoli-design-meets-mexican-tiles
This one I started a while back and kept on thinking about going back to it. But never did.

 

Update: I have decided to leave this one as this. I might fill the background. But for now, it is staying like this. 

Imli

I created these for my friend A as a gift for her birthday. Check out the steps of the process here.

Just got a message from her that she loves the paintings. I am so happy about that :)  

Here are her comments:

"Omg!!! Sooooo amazing!! Wht a surprise! Babe thank you sooooo much these are outstanding and so special!

My parents were agape too! Damn do u know what a business there is in pet painting? You could rake it in hahah. Gosh i love them so much babe. Means so much to me thank you soooo much."

If you are interested in having a portrait of your pet made, post a message below and I can send you the details.

Thank you.

Flower garden

20 x 24 Acrylic on stretched canvas.

Loosely based on my previous painting  'Flower meadow'.

Steps and changes.

Beboo

This is one of my youngest nieces.. "Beboo or Renee'"! Super cute and super chubby, just like I remember her mom was at this age.I was having a hard time getting the mischievous smile this little one had on her face.

Here are the intermediate steps, though I didn't get the pictures of the early process.

Evening clouds

 

A painting of evening clouds with the beautiful colors created by the setting sun reflecting on the clouds. Check this for the steps and modifications.

Bouganvilla

J is a big fan of bouganvillas for some reason. For me personally, growing up in Pune, it was one of the most ordinary flower. It grew everywhere and in abundance. Almost every compound wall I new was covered by it, making yhem a nice cozy environment for my nemesis,  the common gecko! Uuggghhhh....

Anyways, J had a nice flowering bush in his little patio garden this Spring and I had an extra canvas.

This was half way through my class at WAM as well. So I painted it using the shape technique, not painting flowers, but asking myself what shape I see and is it cooler or hotter than what's next to it.

I love the outcome.

Calm pond

 

This is based on a beautiful pond J and I discovered on the very last day of our NH trip for my birthday. I did not have enough time to finish it plein air and I could only take limited and very poor reference photos as we had lost functionality of both of our phones and my camera when our canoe tipped over the previous day. I am still making changes to this from memory. I will update the final version soon. 

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