Be(come) good at...

Portrait of Talented Dancer Karronya Katrynn
Watercolors on Paper 12" x 15" (31cm x 38cm)

Artists, usually are good-hearted people. That's why they are good at fine-arts. I haven't come across any Artist who is not good-hearted. Once you are good at heart, you are good at many things. Be good at heart, be good at art.

After my recent trending-series of black & white watercolor paintings, I break the trend with this full-color fine-portrait of the finest young actress of Telugu movies, Karronya Katrynn.

"No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart." - Shanina Shaik

Happy Painting!
Be good and become good at heart!!

Details
Title: Portrait of Talented Dancer and Telugu Actress Karronya Katrynn
Mediums: Watercolors on Paper
Reference: Photograph

Size: 12" x 15" (31 cm x 38 cm)

Surface: Arches Watercolor Paper

Smile please...

Smile please...

Ink and Watercolors on Paper (8 1/2" x 11")  

Approach everything with a Smile, and you will be the happiest! Smile is the simplest thing which requires no efforts, but we often forget to do so. The best beauty, the best quality, the best attitude, the best approach, the best of the best is nothing but - Smile. Don't just smile for photos, smile for yourself, smile for your own goodness, smile for your own good health.

Say more often to yourself - "Smile Please!"

"Nothing beats a great smile." - Karl Urban

Happy Painting!
Smile Please ;)

Details
Title: Smile please...
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Reference: A picture from my collection

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

Simply elegant...

Simply elegant - Indian woman in Saree
Ink and Watercolors on Paper (8 1/2" x 11")  

Be simple to look elegant, and to be elegant. Saree is one of few themes that I have been doing series of paintings. This particular style of sitting is quite common. A woman wearing Saree and sitting in this style looks very elegant. No doubt, it is not the dress but the simplicity that brings elegance and gives elegant looks. Saree is the most elegant dress for Indian woman.

"Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance." - Jon Franklin

Happy Painting!
Be simple and be elegant!

Details
Title: Simply elegant...
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Reference: A picture from my collection

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

Inside Journey...

Natyanjali - my Art with Art
Ink and Watercolors on Paper (8 1/2" x 11")  

Life is a journey, we all know that. But most of it just goes with the flow, the flow of routine daily schedule. There are certainly days that go against the daily routine. We register those days as the best days of life. Those are the days that change our routine for good. If that change goes on and continues for a long time, that becomes a journey. When it turns into a journey, it brings in experiences that become memories. Good memories are memories that we often try to recollect as they make us feel happy and great.

No one is alone in this world. Even a lonely person has a companion all the time, the companion of oneself. Oneself is the best companion, and is the only one, one travels most with. The travel with oneself must not be a routine like the travel with others. It must be something special, a special that one can register, remember, recollect, reflect, refresh and restore. The inside journey, is the journey that is more important journey in life. Make it great, make it memorable and make it cherishable!

"The only journey is the journey within." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Happy Painting!
Happy journey with yourself!!

Details
Title: Natyanjali - my Art with Art
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Reference: A photograph from Narthanam - a picture collection of Indian Classical Dance

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

రేపల్లె వేచెనూ...

రేపల్లె వేచెనూ...
Ink and Watercolors on Paper (8 1/2" x 11")  

"శారద" - నాకమితంగా నచ్చిన తెలుగు సినిమాల్లో ఒకటి. ఇందులో కథ, పాటలూ, శారద, శోభన్ బాబుల అభినయం సినిమా అంతా, అంతటా అద్భుతం. అనుకోకుండా ఈరోజు "రేపల్లే వేచెనూ...వేణువు వేచెనూ...వనమెల్ల వేచేనురా..." అన్న పాటని చూసి, శారద అద్భుతంగా ఆ పాటకి చూసిన హావభావాలు, ఎందుకో నా బొమ్మలో చూపాలని చేసిందే ఈ ప్రయత్నం...

"All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for."

- Woodrow T. Wilson

Happy Painting!

Details
Title: రేపల్లె వేచెనూ......
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Inspiration & Reference: Song from Telugu Movie "శారద"

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

Experiment and experience...

Indian Woman
Ink and Watercolors on Paper...8.5" x 11"    

Black and white was my very first exploration of Painting when I was a kid. I did quite a few that looked like Paintings, just by experimenting with ink and water on regular notebook paper. That was the ultimate challenge I ever had in Art. At that time I did not know anything about painting. All I wanted was to get a portrait that looked like a Painting.

After a long time, again I am hooked to Black and White, challenging myself again on the paper that is not meant for Painting. This time it is also just one color, not ink, but a professional quality Watercolor paint. It is not the paint, but is the surface that plays major role in Watercolor Painting. Challenging surfaces make you experiment, make you do mistakes, and thus make you experience. After all, it is the experience that teaches you to be a master of anything in life. Keep experimenting, keep experiencing, and keep learning from your mistakes.

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

Happy Painting!
If you don't experiment, you don't do mistakes. If you don't do mistakes, you don't gain experience.

Details
Title: Indian Woman...
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Inspiration & Reference: Random picture from my collection

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

2019 RISCA State Asian Art Exhibit...

Paintings on Display @ Atrium Galley
One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI, USA
May 6, 2019 - Aug 4, 2019.  

With great pleasure and many thanks to India Association of Rhode Island, I share that FOUR of my paintings will be showcased at the "2019 RISCA State Asian Art Exhibit" co-presented by India Association of Rhode Island and Hmong United Association of Rhode Island in association with  RISCA - Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

If you live around or going be around Providence RI USA, this summer, please, make a visit to support and encourage "Indian Art and Artists" in USA.

Moments of Gallery Night Reception May 16, 2019

Details
Exhibit Runs: May 6, 2019 - Aug 4, 2019
Gallery Night Reception: Thursday, May 16, 2019 6:00-8:30pm
Location: William E. Powers Administration Building, One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI, USA

Waiting...

Waiting...
Ink and Watercolors on Paper 8.5" x 11"    

There is always a day waiting for you as you are waiting for the day. If you can see yourself beyond today, you will find yourself in peace there.

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."
- George Harrison

Happy Painting!
There is always a day waiting for you!

Details
Title: Waiting...
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Inspiration & Reference: Random picture from my collection

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

తీరని ఋణం...

అమ్మతో - Chicago 2000      

అడుగడుగునా జీవిత ప్రవాహాన్ని

ఎదురీది తండ్రీ తల్లీ నువ్వే అయ్యి

ఉన్నంతలో జీవితాన్ని ఉన్నతంగా

తీర్చి దిద్ది నన్నింతవాడిని చేసిన

"అమ్మ"

ఎప్పటికీ నీ కొడుకునయ్యేవరం

నువ్విస్తేనే తప్ప తీరని ఋణం

. . .

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Beauty of Smile...

Beauty of Smile...
Ink and Watercolors on Paper 8.5" x 11"    

Not many women know that the most precious and beautiful Jewel is Smile and it costs nothing. The beauty of Smile is the beauty of the Soul. Soul can only be seen through smile, but of course, can only be touched by Love.

"Love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine

Happy Painting!
Smile and bring the beauty of your soul out!

Details
Title: Beauty of Smile...
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Inspiration & Reference: Random picture from my collection

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

తెలుగుదనం...

"తెలుగుదనం"
Ink and Watercolors on Paper 8.5" x 11"

Being simple and natural is the most difficult in life, now-a-days. When life becomes artificial other things take over the simplicity. Good-old Indian traditions are the most simple yet elegant ones. Indian traditions, and even Girls' outfits have changed overtime. But nothing can be as elegant and as simple as Half Sree- the most beautiful and elegant outfit for Girls, especially for Telugu Girls.

No doubt, this is one of very few sketches I did bit more carefully. I need to make this a habit. My definition of habit is nothing but something that has been followed for years. Also, she is probably the only one I did three sketches in a row. Yet to do many more...

తెలుగుదనం కరువై, రాను రానూ కనుమరుగై పోతున్న ఈరోజుల్లో

ఎక్కడైనా, ఎవరిలోనైనా అది కనిపిస్తే మెచ్చుకుని మురిసిపోక తప్పదు.

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” – Amelia Barr

Happy Painting!
Be simple to stay beautiful!

Details
Title: తెలుగుదనం...
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Inspiration & Reference: Picture of very talented Dancer and Telugu Actress Karronya Katrynn

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper

Portrait of Talent...

"Portrait of Talent"
Watercolors on Paper (8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Painting portraits is always challenging. Every person has unique features that when not captured nicely make the result doesn't look like the person. Capturing facial features is only one aspect of painting a portrait. Capturing feelings is the essential and the most challenging aspect of it.

This portrait certainly challenged me to the greatest extent. Struggled to get the grasp on it to portray the feel of talent in this Portrait. I think I am very close to capturing the feel of talent in this Portrait, if not captured fully.

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

- Oscar Wilde

Happy painting!
Sharpen you talent by practice!!

Details
Title: Portrait of Talent
Mediums: Ink and Watercolors on Paper
Inspiration & Reference: A video song of very talented Dancer and Telugu Actress Karronya Katrynn

Size: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm)

Surface: Artist's Loft Sketchbook, 75 lb/110 gm2 Acid-free Paper