Hi folks!

Firstly, a very happy Holi ! 😃

Today am going to share with you my new mixed-media Ganesha. 

For this, I used a canvas which I painted before. The background is made by melting crayon shavings. And the swirls are made using air-dry clay. You can see the tutorial in this link → Mixed Media Art .

I used this canvas as background for my current work. I spray painted it gold.

The background now looks like this.

I decided to paint a Ganesha sitting on a pedestal with some bells in the background.  Then I made a paste of glue, talcum powder and white acrylic paint. I piped this paste into the design I desired.

I waited until this paste dried. I wanted to give it some more dimension. So for that I used spackling paste and spread it using palette knife. After the paste dried, I was not satisfied with the finish. It was very rough. So I had to use thin sheet of air dry clay and pasted it on the rough surface.

 For the pedestal, I removed the swirls. Because while working on the Ganesha, I had a really hard time filling in the gaps between the swirls. After the swirls were removed, I used coarse texture paste and applied it for pedestal.

For making the bells, I used air dry clay. I formed the clay in the shape of the bell and pasted it. For making the chains for the bells, I rolled two thin strings of clay and twisted them. After the clay was pasted and dried, I painted it with brown and metallic brown colour. 

I etched the outlines of the Ganesha using a sharp tool. And used air dry clay to make the jewelry and the crown by rolling it into thin strings.

I further used air dry clay to give details to the Ganesha. 

Once I was satisfied with the result, I started painting. I used acrylic paints to colour it. For the jewelry I used silver acrylic paint instead of gold because the background is sprayed gold.

And its all finished 😀. I know its lot of work but I really liked the dimension all these mediums (texture paste, spackling paste and air dry clay) gave.

First clay ganesha

Hey !!

I have attempted to make a clay ganesha on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. This was made in 2016 but somehow I misplaced the images.  This is the very first time I made a clay ganesha. I am hoping it will motivate me in making a clay ganesha every year 😃.

Ganesha painting 2

Hello folks !!

Presenting you here is my second painting of the year. And its a Ganesha again 😊.

I wanted to make something for my parents for a really long time . And this time when I was in India, I made this painting. The main idea for drawing a Ganesha was wishing them that the lord looks after them and removes all obstacles 😇. For this painting I have used acrylic paints and most of them are pearl acrylics and sparkling acrylic paints.

I first drew a sketch and then started with the background tree, lotus and the waves in the bottom.

I had a great time painting this tree. It was very simple and I loved the end result 😍

I hope you liked it. Let me know in the comments below.

Ganesha Painting 1

Hello friends,

This year has been great so far 😃. I believe its due to the first painting of the year, which is a Ganesha painting 😊.  I hope the lord looks after everyone this year 🙏. I had this image in my head of a Ganesha painting with side face with an aura. Here's the sketch on the canvas. I have used acrylic paints for this painting.

I have used sparkling blue acrylic for the blue region. And used pearl acrylic paints for the lotus petals and stem. For the brick red region of  band between yellow and green aura, I have used metallic acrylic paint. 

In the green aura band, I have glued some pearl like beads. And the yellow band has some kundans too. For the pagdi (turban) of ganesha, I have used some pink beads.