Vacation Time

Hi All,

I'm taking break ......because its a vacation time and have some travel plans....

will be back with new posts in new year......

Merry Christmas and Happy new year to All.

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Colour-Pencil Sketch

Hi,

For colour pencil sketch we need a good colour pencil set and patience. I need to improve on strokes and i promise soon i will come up with a best one.

Comments please :D

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Bengaluru Habba

Hi All,

Happy Monday.

7th edition of Bengaluru Habba is back in the city.

'Habba' in Kannada means 'Festival'. Dec 11 to 20th this three-week-long festival promises to offer everyone an exciting cultural experience.

The Habba is promoted by Artists Foundation for Arts (AFFA), formed in 2002, to bring performing arts to the public. Events will include music, dance, film panorama, street theatre, adventure sports, a golf tournament, tennis ball cricket tournament, pulling race, vintage car rally. Apart from art, the Haba has eat outs, shopping and also film elements.

This year the Habba will have more than 50 performances in various parts of the city including Palace Grounds, Cubbon Park, Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Seva Sadan and even BBMP Parks. Public can watch the events for free.

Luckily I got VIP passes for Sri Praveen Godkhindi, Pt. Jasaraj, Pt. Balamuralikrishna programmes at Chowdiah memorial hall.

Try to collect passes and enjoy the habba.

http://bengaluruhabba.co.in/2009/ more details and event calender.

Animal Sketch

Hi Friends!

This is my first animal sketch. When i started this to draw, thought tough one, i could have started with simple finally i completed. :-)

Comments please :D

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"The tiger is the largest of all the cats. Sadly, this magnificent animal has been hunted by humans and has lost much of its habitat. Three of the eight subspecies have already become extinct, and other populations are also at high risk".

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Sponge Flowers

Hi,

Recently i tried flower making with sponge. Its very easy anybody can make this beautiful flowers with few materials. Even kids can make this.

Take a sponge sheet cut it into a long stripe, or rectangle shape, keep a aluminium wire or even long match box stick (to make a individual flower), and roll it in to circular tie the ends with thread.

I did this with a white and yellow sponges and I arranged with leaves and other flowers in a vase.

Comments please :)

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Stocking Flowers

These are stocking cloth flower. I learned this from web pages. I tried this last month it came out very pretty.

Materials required are :

1. Stocking cloth, colour of your choice

2. Aluminum wire

3. Thread

4. Green flower tape

5. Pollens

Bend the aluminum wire in a petal shape and tie the ends, take stocking cloth and stretch the cloth and cover a wire and tie the end with thread.

Take a pollens ( 3 to 4) and tie to a aluminium stem wire, and arrange all petals to this stem one by one and tie the end by tread. Finally cover the stem with green flower tape. You can make any flower according to your chocie.

I took 3 colours of stocking cloth and prepared 3 types of flowers and arranged it.

Yesterday i tried this following white lily flower.

Following picture is inspiration for the above white stocking flower which was at my lappy long back i downloaded by internet.

Hope you all liked this.

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It's my Birthday!

Hi All,

Today 29 November it's my birthday, i won't celebrate with cake, parents use to take me to temple and after praying to god, use to take a blessings from parents and elders of home, and gifts and wishes from brothers and freinds.

So now it's time to get a blessings from elders and good wishes from friends and loved ones...... and ha...gifts from hubby ;-)

God, I thank You for this day, help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day.

Parents, Brother, Thank you for your love and care, you're dear.

Thanks to my hubby, I'm glad I married you. Thanks for your love and support.

Thanks to my friends who are always with me for all my good and bad times. Thank you for your friendship and love. Happiness is mine because of you all.

Finally thanks to all vistors of my blog, I don't know who are all visiting and how many are visiting, but my hit counter reached more then hunderds with in short time. Thanks for your visit and support.

I'm happy, i had wonderful years......

future years ahead..............i'm looking forwad to.... with hope.

Thank you for visiting!!

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

Water- colour Paintings

Hi All,

Following are the some of my water paintings i did recently. I know i have a lot to improve.....
I need lots of practice.....Happy that my first attempts are quite ok.

River view

Sea View

Sea View Image drawing

Still life

Bird
Moon Fish

Butterfly Fish

Looking forward to your visits and encouragement.

My First Sketch

Hi,


Going lazy these days........

I missed couple of my music classes, spent in reading(books which i brought from Book fest), browsing, learning crafts from online tutorials.

I'm happy to share with u all my first skecth.

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Smile 4 Smile ...Good Cause

Hello All,

Smile 4 smile is charity cause, done last week at my husband's company in collabration with NGOs a fund rising event held for constructing library for some school.

My husband had a wonderful opportunity to take part in this show with my few clay paintings. All my paintings sold off. I want to thank you all, the money went for charity. Its awesome to recieve a good comments and kind wishes from you all.

Thanks to my hubby for making my first paintings part of it, this made me to focus on my creativity and bulid a new skills.

My all experiment work went for good cause and i will start collecting some more and paint in my free time.

Thank you for appreciating my work :D

Pot with Santa Claus

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Dec. 25. Christmas is biggest celebation at winter time...home, shops, streets are decorated with a lights, candles and I love christmas tree, as it will be decorated with many decorative things, dolls, hangings.

People starts prepartion, shopping one month before. You can decorate with many handmade crafts too.

Here on this clay pot one side i painted a santa claus, and christmas tree and one more side Greeting message. I painted with acrylic colours and tree decorated with mult-coloured 3d pen and stickers(bindi). I enjoyed paiting this multi-purpose pot.

Wishing you all Advanced Happy Christmas.

M-seal work

With same m-seal technique, here on small pot i made a cute red rose buds in a heart shape.First I coated with a black colour and after m-seal get dried, painted with red fabric colour.

Eat Healthy Live Better

Today Nov. 14th is World Diabetes Day – a day to think why India has become the diabetic capital of the world. Its all because rapidly changing imbalanced dietary habits, and life style both in rural and urban areas.

Let's we all put effort to prevent diabetes by adopting a healthy lifestyle of eating multigrain, fiber rich food and avoiding excess fried fatty foods, sweets and starches, and maintain a normal weight with a regular exrecise routine can prevent or postpone the diabetes.

Today Nov. 14th Children's Day is to celebrate "childhood". Children are loved by one and all. They win over our hearts with their angelic eyes and innocent smiles. It makes one realise that maybe that’s the way God wanted us to be. Childerns are full of energy and, and I strongly feel we learn lots of things from kids.

Number of childerns suffering from diabetes has incresed a lot in recent years so mothers got biggest challenge to maintain good food habit for child with proper diet plan.

Lets we hope on this childern's day all childerns will get a proper education, and nutritious food, so we can build a better and healthy society.

Everyone wants to go back to childhood that wonderfull world............Be a child......

Happy Childern's Day.

Warli Painting

Warli art is an ancient Indian folk painting of a Maharashtrian tribe called Warli.

This folk painting drawn by tribals on mud walls. Rice paste and straw are the main materials used for making Warli paintings.
Their major designs include the harvest season,celebration, wedding, rituals and births. The Warli houses also see a pattern in decoration and designs. The Warli art has a special characteristic of representing the humble life of the Warli tribe.

The trademark of Warli paintings is the use of geometric designs such as triangles, circles, squares, dots and crooked lines are used to depict human figures, animal figures, houses, crops etc.

Warli painting needs only one colour WHITE.

I tried this on a pot. This is my first warli painting, here I retained original red mud colour of pot and using white fabric paint i painted one of the warli dance form.

Hope you all liked this.

Book Fest

Last weekend I made couple of trip to craft shop, and brought a many crafty things...and clay materials. Whole week I done lots of painting on clay, and I learned flower making and warli painting from E-book.

I will share one by one in my coming posts.

This weekend we are going for most awaited book show, came again this year at palace ground, last year we brought all my hubby's favourite authors Poornachandra Tejasavi, S L Bhyrappa, books. And also we brought many Old kannada movie CDs and DVDs.

This time, we already made list of books we want to buy and as I am going crafty these days I want to buy some of painting and crafts books too, I hope you all also planning your weekend to 'Book fest' at palace grounds, as sunday 15th is the last day.

Happy weekend.

M-seal work on pot

Hi friends,

I am back with something very simple work on pot. Its my first m-seal work, tried some simple design of rose.

Here I painted a pot with black colour and with m-seal I made flower and leaves and painted with fabric colours. You can try any design of your choice.

Hope u all liked this.

Drawings : Tom and Jerry

I once visited to my friend's house, and saw one of timeless classic cartoon charaters Tom and Jerry (favourite with all age groups) poster in her house. I came back with feeling of drawing those cartoons. I took one sided white paper and pencil and started to draw.......it came out so well, when I shown to my friends and posted at orkut, recived a good comments. I went and brought a drawing book and started drawing all cartoons like pokemen, ballonman, kitty, paru, ele, Alex, and my one more favorite character kung-fu-panda, soon it filled with many cartoon characters.

Thats how my drawing journey began...............

Following are the Tom and Jerry, drawn and coloured with cryons.

Following image is example for pencil sketch. I downloaded this from net. when I saw this, became speechless, next minute decide to learn this sketching techniques, so recently(since 15 days) I joined for pencil sketch classes, it may take few months for me to learn.

I believe Everyone is an artist and every individual has got creativity. Now I strongly believe that,"we can never accomplish anything untill we begin...."

Start exploring your hidden talents............ you never know!

Comments please :D

Diya Painting

Diya is small traditional lamp made up of mud or clay. Ghee or oil is used as the fuel and cotton wool as the wick. Illuminitating Diyas outside houses is the most common scene in deepavali. We call this in kannada 'Pranathi'. Different kinds of diyas available in the maraket and in a different shapes even in shape of Ganesha, paravathi too. With increasing competition and due to the popularity of candles, diya is now available in a variety of material, and shapes. Designer diyas have also been introduced in the stores.

I gone mad while shopping for diyas I just picked many diyas whichever come in my way. I brought most of the simple clay diya so that I can paint and decorate myself in home. These are some of my diya collections.
Diya decoration is common practice during festival. you can decorate these diyas with miror, kundan, lace, stones, dried flowers. Here I painted these diyas with acrylic color, pearl fabric colours, any one can do this, following are some of the diyas I coloured with some basic colours.

I really enjoyed colouring these diyas, if you are not good at painting, you can even decorate with sticking a mirror, stones, kundan, lace, when you light a lamp nice sparkle will be around the house.

Too much of diya painting..... so I will come up with some more.

Hope you all liked this.

Comments please. :)

Colours of Deepavali

Hi Friends,

I hope all of you had great festival weekend, and back to normal routine. Here I want to share with you all, colours and shades of deepavali through beautiful photographs.

This is Laxmi pooja my freind did at US. First I want to share pooja snaps which i did, as this image I liked a most so iam sharing with you all.

Floating Diyas Rangolies drawn by my cousine sister

First I decided to post all the recipies of these snaks which I prepared for festival, later changed my mind and took help from picasa and made this following photo.Hope you like this. can you name the snaks of following......?? hmm....let me do....chakkali, avalakki, kala-jamunu, shankarapoli, besan oondi, obbattu( holige), dry-jamunu, assoerted sweets box gifted by freind.

Delicious food of deepavali Hanging ( in kannada Akasha butti)

Crackers (Flower pot)

Hope you enjoyed this post :-)