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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P. L. Deshpande Park 1

This is based on a picture of P. L. Deshpande park or Okayama friendship garden, a new Japanese style garden in my home town Pune, India by Ajay Adiya.

I really really like this painting. I like the effect of sunlight, I like the rocks, that I have been able to paint for the first time. I like the water and rocks in it. I like the bushes and distant trees and reflection of sun on water.. basically I am excited about this painting!

 

Here is my process of creating it.

Flower meadow

This is an imaginary painting I did for a friend of mine. She wanted something springy or fall like.. but sadly (note heatwave!) its summer. Here are my steps and references.