Good Morning 😃!!

I hope all my readers are basking in the morning sun of November. सर्दी की धूप is the best part of wintry season I feel. The fall colors, sunny days ...aah cannot ask for it to get more beautiful. Got a little deviated from our regular talks 😁. Coming back to our very own lane of arts, I finished another canvas last Friday which I started many many months ago. After initial work I kept it aside because I wasn't confident if I could finish it. I didn't believe if I had what it takes. So far, I have not drawn and painted a regular human face. I did paint faces in Madhubani works, but they were merely single shade of color. In the current work, I had to draw face with shades of skin color...how it varies when light falls on one side of the face and how the other side gets a shadow. I get pretty nervous when drawing a human face with shades. That is pretty much unexplored territory because I felt it was too hard for me. I avoided working on this canvas for many months. I would rather paint something new or craft something else. But somehow by end of Oct, I felt I should give it try. If  it doesn't work out, I could always repaint and use it for a new work. If I didn't try, I would never know how far I can go. So I started working and here is how it looks now. It might not be the best painting, but am very proud of myself for trying it and finishing it 😊.

I used acrylic paints on a 50cm x 40cm canvas. To draw the jewelry I used metallic gold acrylic and pearl metallic acrylics. For drawing design on her dress I used silver marker from Edding. And for painting the grass I used sketch pens of different green shades.

I was inspired by a similar image from internet. I traced the image using grid technique to get right proportions. This method is also the very first time I used it 😊.

I started with the night sky and the grass. 

After this, I avoided this canvas for a looooong time as I said earlier. After believing in myself, I started again in the last week of Oct. I finished the night sky which took a lot of time.

I used different shades of green acrylics to draw the leaves at the bottom.

I took little bit pink and white acrylics and loaded them onto the brush to draw these flowers.

The face was the most difficult thing I attempted in this work. It took a lot of time.  But I was satisfied at the end. All that time was worth it 😃.

Adding some jewelry...

She looks pretty, doesn't she ?

For the grass, I used several green shades of sketch pens.

And done 😀...

Madhubani painting

Hello art-cravers !!

Presenting you  "madhubani painting" I did recently. This painting has been inspired by Mrs. Bharati Dayal who is a renowned artist. I dedicate this painting to her and thank her for cultivating in me such great interest in this kind of art.  Madhubani paintings are also called Mithila paintings, more can be read here madhubani 

So I started with a sketch.

Notice, this art has some specific ways of drawing the facial features.

I used a marker to make the outlines.

And used water based paints.

Lets add color to the ladies.

And...tadaah...they are all dressed up now.

Now handling the tree and the birds.

All the detailing is done using marker pen. The beauty of this art is it fills up the whole space and does not leave much of white space in it, giving it its signature intricate look . And its done :D