Let your Talent blossom..

"The Portrait of Talent"

Portrait of Karronya Katrynn - Young talented Dancer and Telugu Actress

Watercolors on Paper (10" x 8") 

Having talent is only one thing. Putting it to work is everything. Let your talent be working, and working hard for your success. If talent is a flower, success is its fragrance. Blossom your talent like a flower with the fragrance of success.

"If you have talent, then success will come to you." ~ Kartik Aaryan

Happy Painting!
Happy working with your Talent!!

Details
Title: "The Talent with Flower"
Reference: Talented Dancer & Telugu Actress Karronya Katrynn
Mediums: Watercolors
Size: 10" x 8" (25 cm x 20 cm)

Surface: Arches Bright White140LB Cold Press Watercolor Paper 

Learn from Masters...

Anna Marinova
Limited Edition

A page from the book...   

I am glad to receive a copy of Anna Marinova's personally signed book, a limited edition of 500 copies . Anna Marinova is one of the two Artists of our times whom I follow, want to learn Oil Painting from, and admire most. The other Artist is Vladimir Volegov. I want to watch, learn, paint wit both of these Artists by attending a workshop (if such an opportunity ever knocks my door). Till then, my only source of learning from them is: taking a closer look at pictures of their works, and watching short videos that they shared and available online.

I have had wonderful time with Oil Painting last year. This year I have higher ambitions with my own bar-raised. As I get ready to start "My 2020 journey with Oil Painting", this book remains a source of inspiration and reference. Many thanks to Anna Marinova, for being highly responsive in my communication with her and getting this book into my hands with the utmost care taken in packaging and delivery, all the way from Vsevolozhsk, Russia.

I love people who are responsive by nature!

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." 

~ Bruce Lee

Happy Painting!
Happy learning from the Masters!!

Champion your Talent...

"The Portrait of Talent"

Portrait of Karronya Katrynn - Young talented Dancer and Telugu Actress

Watercolors on Paper (16" x 20")

Talent is a built-in and unique ability. Knowing that built-in ability, recognizing it, turning it into a quality, and letting it out is more than talent. It requires constant practice with no boundaries and limitations.

This portrait of talent is done in a unique way by mixing both slow and fast paced watercolor painting styles. Each style comes with its own challenges. With fast-paced style, dealing with color-flow and water control on the surface (paper) is a challenge. With slow-paced style, dealing with mixing colors as they sink in and dry fast into the surface is a challenge. After all, dealing with all those challenges, fixing any mistakes is another big challenge. Every watercolor painting is a new challenge.

Practice is the way, and in fact, the only way to overcome challenges and champion anything. Your talent is your friend, and is also your rival.

"Be a champion of your own talent, champion it with patience and practice."

~ Giridhar Pottepalem

Happy Painting!
Champion your own Talent!!

Details
Title: "The Portrait of Talent"
Reference: Talented Dancer & Telugu Actress Karronya Katrynn
Mediums: Watercolors
Size: 16" x 20" (41 cm x 51 cm)

Surface: Arches Bright White140LB Cold Press Watercolor Paper 

With Loyal Friend...

"With Loyal Friend..."
Watercolors on paper (12" x 16")   

There is no best friend than a book. Reading is good for mind, body and soul.  A good book leaves a long lasting impact on us. When we read a book, we travel with the writer in our own way.

Reading a  painting is no different than reading a book. One who looks at a painting travels into it with the Artist. A painting is nothing but an Artist's colorful journey with the subject. A colorful journey that viewer can experience as well. At the end, experience is what we carry with us. Be Loyal when you travel with somebody or something. Loyalty is what leaves us with a good experience!

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ~ Ernest Hemingway

Happy Painting!
Be Loyal to good friends!!

Details
Title: With Loyal Friend...
Mediums: Watercolor Paper
Size: 12" x 16" (31 cm x 41 cm)

Surface: Fabriano Watercolor paper 140 lb/300 gsm2

Challenges...

Nátyánjali - my tribute to Indian Classical Dance
Watercolors on Paper (11" x 14")   

Challenges make you better and grow. If everything is so easy, then everyone does everything so well. If everyone can do everything, there is no fun and no frustration.

“Painting is a never-ending process of challenges and learning.”

~Daniel Greene

Happy Painting!
Enjoy challenges, never give up!!

Details
Title: Nátyánjali - my tribute to Indian Classical Dance
Mediums: Saunders Extra White Watercolor Paper
Size: 11" x 14" (28 cm x 35.5 cm)

Surface: Saunders Extra-white Watercolor paper 140 lb/300 gsm2

Grow wiser...

Grown-up, at last ;) .   

Grow wiser as you grow older. I never felt that I am a grown-up. I have always been like a kid mentally inside. Suddenly, I feel like I am a grown-up when I change my looks. If this is the look that makes me feel that way, I want to freeze in this state.

I feel like I have become more wiser now, not with people and money, but with time. People still fool me very easily by all means. But, no one can fool with my time. I use my time wisely, the way I want to earn, the way I want to invest, the way I want to spend, the I want to live and the way I want to love!

As one of my friends rightly said when he saw me first in beard- at this age, we don't care what others think about us. We like it, so we go for it. I like my beard, not because people say it's good, because I feel like I am a grown-up now, grown-up with nothing but "my time".

“A beard doesn’t grow only on gurus; it grows on all men.”

- Jaggi Vasudev(Sadhguru)

Happy Living!
Love your Life!!