Natyanjali-3: Indian Classical Dance...

Indian Classical Dance

Indian Classical Dance - Happy to share this third Painting of this series.

In watercolor painting, as in life: "what you don't paint is equally important as what you do paint" - Steve Puttrich @StevePuttrich

Materials 

Mediums: Watercolors
Surface: Artistico Fabriano Watercolor Paper, 140 lb Cold Press
Size: 16" x 20" (40 cm x 50 cm)

Paints: Holbein Artist Watercolor (HWC) Cadmium Red,
Winsor & Newton Cadmium Lemon, Raw Sienna, Quinacridone Gold, Cobalt Turquoise and Neutral Tint

Brushes: Raphail Mop 8, Da Vinci Kolinsky Round Size 1 and 5

Natyanjali-2: Indian Classical Dance...

Indian Classical Dance

Indian Classical Dance - It's been one of my dream subjects. I always wanted to do a series of Paintings on this subject. Now, I am happy to present the Second Painting of this series.

Happy Painting ;)

Materials 

Mediums: Watercolors
Surface: Artistico Fabriano Watercolor Paper, 140 lb Cold Press
Size: 16" x 20" (40 cm x 50 cm)

Paints: Holbein Artist Watercolor (HWC) Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre
Winsor & Newton Cadmium Lemon, Ultramarine violet, Raw Sienna, Quinacridone Gold, Cobalt Blue and Opera Rose

Brushes: Raphail Mop 8, Da Vinci Kolinsky Round Size 1 and 5

Natyanjali-1: Indian Classical Dance (Bharata Natyam)...

Happy Painting ;)

Materials 

Mediums: Watercolors
Surface: Artistico Fabriano Watercolor Paper, 140 lb Cold Press
Size: 16" x 20" (40 cm x 50 cm)

Paints: Holbein Artist Watercolor (HWC) Lavender, Yellow Ochre
Winsor & Newton Cadmium Lemon, Hookers Green, Raw Sienna, and Opera Rose

Brushes: Raphail Mop 8, Da Vinci Kolinsky Round Size 1 and 5

A painting can change the mood...

Bharatanatyam

Certain days have a gloomy start; we don't know what to do, but we feel like doing something close to our heart. Yesterday, on such a day, I opened my college-days collection of paper cuttings. Most of those were mainly appealing to me and a source of inspiration for me to start a drawing or painting during my college-days. A small black and white picture which I believe I did a pen sketch for our college magazine made me to start this painting. Guess what, rest of my day took me out from this world for few hours.

I tried to get that very pleasant face into my painting. At the end, I felt like I should have started even on a bigger size paper. I gave my best to turn my gloomy day into a bright one.

Art is always inspiring, refreshing and can change bad mood into good mood.

Happy Painting ;)

Materials 

Mediums: Watercolors
Surface: Canson Artist Series Watercolor Paper, 140 lb/300 G, Cold press
Size: 11" x 13 1/2" (28 cm x 34 cm)

Paints: Winsor & Newton - Opera Rose, Raw Sienna, Olive green, Grumbacher Academy Violet and Rowney Georgian Ultramarine Blue

Brushes: 8, 6, 2 and 000 round Sable

Stages 

Stage-2: Initial Painting

Stage-1: Pencil sketch

Art Inspires Art...

Indian Classical Dance

One form of Art always inspires another form of Art, there is no doubt about it! Indian classical dance is a very fine subject for any Artist to do a series of Drawings and Paintings. The gestures and facial expressions found in this form of dance are endless.

I happened to go to an Arangetram (the debut on-stage performance of a classical dance student ) of one of my neighbor's daughter. She was such a wonderful dancer and her performance was so inspiring and I took pictures of many postures for my series of future paintings. This painting is based on one of those pictures.

This is another painting that I started more than an year ago, but only finished it last week to call it "done". For many days I was just looking at it thinking about what to put in the background. Finally decided to just go with a bright color in watercolor way. I am happy with the color that I had put for the background and it helped elevate all other colors in this painting and made this painting more appealing to me.

Happy Painting ;)

Materials 

Mediums: Watercolors
Surface: Beinfang Watercolor Paper, 140 lb. 207 GSM
Size: 9" x 12" (23 cm x 30 cm)

Paints: Grumbacher - Violet, Cadmium Yellow pale hue, Winsor & Newton - Raw Sienna, Cobalt blue, Cadmium Orange hue, Hooker's Green, Rowney Georgian - Burnt Sienna, Ultra Marine Blue

Brushes: 10 round sable, 00 synthetic Winsor & Newton, and 000 Sable synthetic blend

Dream Art...

For several years, it's been my dream to take a theme and do series of paintings on that theme. One of the very first themes that made into my list was ‘Indian Classical Dance’. I did few drawings and sketches on this subject in the past. But, I never followed my dream to make it a reality.

However, recently I have been thinking about it and started the first sketch for my first painting in this series. Initially I wanted to do a rough sketch with fewer details to see how my idea looks. As I started working on it, I was more into it and started adding more and more details. The idea was to have a posture of an Indian Classical Dancer that I did a pencil sketch in the past with a rich Indian traditional background. I chose Konark Wheel for this as the backdrop. Where else the rich Hindu tradition can be found better these days, other than temples in India?

I hope my dream project takes a shape soon.

Media: Pen ((Pilot PRECISE V5 Rolling Ball - extra fine), Ink and Watercolors on paper (12" x 16")

Bharatha Naatyam - sketch

Telugu Version

కళ - కల
చాలా కాలంగా ఒక సబ్జక్ట్ తీసుకుని దానిపై వరసగా కొన్ని పెయింటింగ్స్ వెయ్యాలని కోరిక ఉంది.. అందులో మొదటిగా ఎప్పటి నుంచో అనుకుంటున్నది భారతీయ నృత్య కళలు. ఇదివరకు దీనిపై కొన్ని బొమ్మలు వేసినా నా కలని నిజం చేసే ప్రయత్నాలు మాత్రం చెయ్యలేదు.

ఈ మధ్య ఆ కలకి కార్యరూపం ఇవ్వాలని మొదటి స్కెచ్ వెయ్యటం మొదలు పెట్టాను. మొదట రఫ్ గా వెయ్యాలనే అనుకుని మొదలు పెట్టినా నెమ్మదిగా అందులో లీనమై మరింత విపులంగా వెయ్యసాగాను. ఇందులోని ఆలోచన ఒక భరత నాట్య భంగిమకి వెనుక భారతీయ సాంప్రదాయం ప్రతిబింబించేలా చిత్రించాలని. దీనికి కోణార్క్ దేవాలయం లోని రధ చక్రాన్ని, ఇదివరకు నేను వేసిన ఒక నాట్య భంగిమనీ ఎంచుకున్నాను. హిందూ దేవాలయాలపైన గాక మరెక్కడ అంత గొప్పగా భారతీయ సంస్కృతి కనిపిస్తుందీరోజుల్లో, కదూ!

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