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 :-)

Happy Deepavali

Hi Everybody,


This is my first post in my blog, so i'm nervous and excited at same time. I started blogging to share my (random) thoughts and also about my hobbies.

Friends it's deepavali time, we all know Deepavali is the festival of Lights. The word 'Deepavali' is made up of two simple words. 'Deepa' means light and 'Avali' means a row. Hence 'Deepavali' means a row of lights. I just love this festival as it's full colourful lights, crackers, diyas, and hangings (we call in kannada 'akasha butti'), rangolies, decorations.

Today is first day of deepavali is Dhan trayodashi dhan means wealth, people buy lots of precious things gold, cars, etc., you might be heard in news today in a single day 25,000 cars sold out. 2nd day of deepavali is naraka chatrudashi this is a day lord Krishna killed demon Narakasura. Third day is Amavase day of laxmi pooja. Fourth day is Bali Padyami this is the day of victory of a Vamana (Lord Vishnu's avathara) on king bali. Fifth day is Bidagi (in north karanataka we call this akkana bidagi akka in kannada elder sister ) the day to honour a brother-sister relationship.

"Wish you all a happy and prosperous Deepavali"

As its a diwali time i'm busy in cleaning house, shopping,preparing delicious snaks for festival...... will be back soon with some more posts.

Till then Happy Diwali.......& Happy blogging!!!