Cycle on beach (water-colour)

First one for 2009.

Half-way

Six months have passed since I started this blog. I had given myself 12 months to show some progress in the quality of painting, so I have reached half-way. I am happy that I could manage, on an average, a post per 4 days. Considering the attempts that are not shown here, I must have done more than 200 drawings/paintings in these 6 months - almost one every day. Not bad!

I have another six months to go before I look back and see how far I have reached. My energy level, motivation and determination remain high. Wish me luck!

BMCC Sketch (water colour)

I always had (still have actually) lot of reservations about my ability to paint structures. So I have decided to give it a serious try. I wanted to paint some building I like and what better choice than my own college. So here is attempt no 1 - subject BMCC, Pune. This is more like a quick sketch not bothering much about details. Some more attempts are due but I guess it will require well over 4 hours to finish properly.

Seascape (water colour)

This one is a milestone for me. I am very happy with this effort and this gives me great confidence and motivation to keep working on water-colours. I am just loving water-colours as a medium and now feel ready to get some formal training.

This is based on an oil painting but I have changed most colours and the overcast atmosphere. I wanted to paint something bright and colourful. I hope you will like it!

Experimenting with colours (Water-colour)

Yesterday, I was trying a landscape. After 3 failed attempts, at 11:45 pm, I decided to do a quick still life. Inspired by many paintings of shoes, especially by everyday painters, I thought of painting my chappals which are very "Indian". Halfway I realized that I had put them on an off-white wall in white light and there was almost zero contrast. So suddenly I decided to use dark background either grey or violet or dark green. The end result was quite interesting! After 3 failures, this was enough reason for me to sleep peacefully.