Vase with tulips

Started off with a simple vase with 3 tulips. Graphite. 10" x 4.5".

Then I decided to put in some color accents. This is my first attempt at this. So, it does not look striking. Of course this is WorkInProgress.

African Crowned Crane

After a long hiatus, I completed this and got it framed.

Title: African Crowned Crane

Size: 9" x 12"

Medium: Soft Pastels

Daily Painting - 3

I think I suck at painting glass :-( Anyway, here's my 3rd miniature. Thanks to Sundu, this one was not done in one day. It took me a fifteen minute session on the second day.

Title: Glass object - 1
Size: 3" by 4"
Medium: Oils. (I am removing this from my next post 'cos am currently working only in oils. When there is a different medium I will mention it.)

Daily Painting - 2

Title: Just a little.
Size: 3.5" by 2.5"
Medium: Oils

Daily painting - 1

My first miniature is ready. It is not exactly the size of an art card. Slowly plan to improve on my skills with Daily painting.

Size 3.5" by 5"
Medium: Oils.

ACEO

Art card, editions and originals

Art cards are normally creations by artists in any medium on any surface. The only rule is that they are of the size 3.5" by 2.5".

Starting from today till July 20th I plan to paint one a day. Check by the end of the day for a new one.

Okay! That sounds very ambitious. But hope I can do it... ... ...

Charcoal - Vibha

Bala's cousin's daughter. I loved the way she was relaxing. I did this in charcoal.




I think I will try this in oils.

Portrait - almost done

Its almost done. Anymore tweaks may not be so visible. Needs about a day's work though.

Portrait - days???

Summer vacation has been a very crazy one. Going to Thanjavur, back to Madras, back to pune. Thanks to Shreyasi, I put in a few hours to get a smile in the eyes and a few improvements on the hands. Still a long way to go.

Portrait - day 3

Portrait

Now trying to paint this is an ambitious one. But I just hope it comes out well. Do give inputs on how I can improve on the painting.

DAY 1

After 3 hrs of work

DAY 2
After another 2 hrs

Taking up oils

Someone had advertised locally that she gives lessons in oil painting. I decided to take the offer and attended classes when I was carrying Sundu 7 months. I managed to complete one painting with her.


Encouraged by the results of this I did my next on my own without help from my teacher. The result has been ok. But it took me more than 7 months to complete because of Sundu's birth, etc etc..

Chair

I am still trying to fish out the original image file from Wet Canvas. It is taking quite a long time. Anyway, here is my attempt at drawing the chair. The legs are longer than they ought to be. But I got the green signal to move on to lesson 2.

Hari with lines

Next assignment was to redraw Hari's portrait with lines. My first attempt was pretty bad as always. Tried to improve on the darks a little bit. Seems better yet there ought to be more layers on it to look more like Hari. I think I will come back after a few more classes and then work on it.

Circles

The first assignment was to draw circles. Fill them with lines to give them a more spherical shape. My first attempt was as usual a disaster.

The second after a little bit of encouragement from Robin at wetcanvas forum looked more like spherical objects.

Classroom

Recently I started taking classes at www.wetcanvas.com to improve my drawing skills. It has been pretty good so far. I quite thrilled to see how the feedback has helped me. Pre class assignment was to draw something which has been a challenge for me. I drew Hari's picture three years when he was about four months old. I want to improve it. Lets see if after the classes the portrait turns out better.