Bunch of blue

A lazy weekend calls for lazying around, lot of tea, my favorite book and .... 'paint time'. My new one is a bunch of simple flowers which I saw while strolling near home... 

I specially like this one because, for some odd reason, I can smell the flowers when I look at this painting. Very unusual to me but well.. I guess am aging

Until next time.........

Convergence

What a rush, it has been for last few months, before I coaxed out some grains of time and grabbed my brush... only to find that time has washed out my creativity.

I told myself that I am no Picasso.. hence I have no point to prove.. no expectation to meet, when it comes to painting. This is my new one:

This one is called 'Convergence'. I christened it so as I was trying to exhale all the heat of events and converge my focus onto my inner-self. The shade of peace and single pointedness that I find when I let those colors speak  for themselves and blend in each other... The fine smirk, that crosses my lips when I looks at the same painting after months, of being painted. The convergence of light and life that concentrates in the soul and makes me what I am, 'contended'!

Was this heavy? I don't know and frankly, I don't care! I feel light in spite of being in a not-so-right phase of life... Am happy, that's what this painting means to me.

Until next time....

Wild Flower!

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon (17th April 2011), all I wanted to do is be in a cooler place...

I wanted some greens, some smell of the earth, humid and yet cool.. something I could remember ... not synthetic like the blasting aircon... not cold like the dry winters... something fuller... something I remember seeing years ...decades back.....

My sudden trip to a small village of West Bengal, district Medinipur.... an unnamed location called 'Kaanthi'.. most of the urbanized Bengalis and Indians have never heard of this place.... there was no reach of electic power and telephones were as rare as UFO's... During days, I would meander around the pristine lakes, the mud houses and paddy fields and evenings were spent under the lantern's flickering light, reading 'Malgudi days', till I peacefully rested as sleep took over. Near the guest house I stayed, there grew these flowers... I had no clue of their botanical origin or family name... they had a strong fragnance... I can still recall the smell faintly, as I type.... They were small, but they stood out between the wild grass like the little stars in the dark night sky.... Their bright-yellow tips and orange-red petal body was divided by a thin crimson line... These button like flowers never ceased to amazed my young mind...

I don't know, why I remembered them... but I guess the laze of Sunday afternoon.. and sleepy hot-humid weather... took me back to the calm and small village life... which is just now a pleasant numb memory!

I call this one 'wild flowers'... but obvious!

Let's see what frolic idea my frisky mind comes up with, next time

Until then.....

Love needs to have faith!

This is not a post regarding love or faith, this is regarding my new painting. I call this pair "mi amore vole fe yah", which means love needs to have faith!

I have been having tough time maintaining my faith on a lot of things, the time when everyone inevitably meets the infamous 'Silence of God', I guess it's a passing phase and all I wanted is paint something that represents faith in faith.. Huh! So here it is

Red is brotherhood, passion and femininity, brightness is divinity, the female posture is forgiveness
Blue is tranquility and strength, brightness is divinity, male posture represents one's selflessness
Together they complete faith, love, passion and total well being.

Hope my faith holds up against conformity and usual constraints of life...

Until next time.....

Virtuosity.... my new one

I was clueless when I started with this one... mostly an empty canvas, some random colors as remnants from Friday night's intoxicated dreams, added with very odd, frenzy mood over the weekend.

All I could think of, is about the color yellow, green and pair of grey-blue eyes, that has dominated my week. The eyes were thoughtless, improvising and had visible strain lines, from long exposure to the modern day e-readings. I don't know how they found their way to my disrupted dreams as they dominated the script of my thought flow.

I was curious to conjure the lose ends and make a picture and as I tried to think through, it all came back as flash of colors and drops of blood. Instantly, I was scared and went back to my Bible (The Interpretation of Dreams: Sigmund Freud).

The analogy said that the color Yellow: 

Has both positive and negative connotations. If the dream is a pleasant one, then the color yellow is symbolic of intellect, energy, agility, happiness, harmony, and wisdom. On the other hand, if the dream is an unpleasant one, then the color represents deceit, disgrace, betrayal, cowardice and sickness.

The color Green:

Signifies a positive change, good health, growth, fertility, healing, hope, vigor, vitality, peace, and serenity. The appearance of the color may also be a way of telling you to "go ahead". Alternatively, green is a metaphor for a lack of experience in some task.

To "be green", means that you are environmentally conscious. Green is also symbolic of your strive to gain recognition and establish your independence. Money, wealth and jealousy are often associated with this color.

Blood represents:

Life, love, and passion as well as disappointments. To dream that you are bleeding or losing blood, signifies that you are suffering from exhaustion or that you are feeling emotionally drained. It may also denote bitter confrontations between you and your friends. Your past actions has come back to haunt you.

Well to be honest I do not remember where the blood came from, but surely they were dripping.

Alas! I couldn't make much sense of my dream but I wanted to capture the essence of it, before I lose the trail of thoughts.

Hence I painted what I saw or experienced on 27th March 2011. I call this painting 'Virtuosity' and not because its a fancy for intellectual savoring, but because it was never and would never be real.

So, until next time.............

A looooonnng day!!!

I am overwhelmed with lot of items pending in my 'to do' list... This list is always full and am always reluctant to pull these things to climax...

One of my strangest thought today would be missing my Bangalore days... when I would just chat up an entire afternoon with my friends and colleagues.. rush for a sudden pedicure appointment between meetings at work. Some hilarious weekends with child hood pals and some lazed Sundays at home...

I don't seem to enjoy anything intensely as before.. may be it is the ease of achievement that ruins the fun or too long a wait that kills the joy! I don't know but I really struggle to get inspired even to pick up the brush and scratch the canvas...

The best part is, I still manage to travel and keep myself occupied with thoughts and hope of the 'best days of my life'

Here is my other painting, done for my desk at work, but never brought it to work (lazy me)

Its a small one 16 cm. by 14 cm.

I find this one too bright for me to look at, when am at work.. hence discarded

Until next time... 

This is my first post...

No prizes for guessing that this is my first post on my blog.. I just thought that its gud idea to have a space of my own to key in what I feel like.. May be I will refer back to this when I am old ... We can all look at this and laugh about, 'How silly was I'..


Hope to post some of  pictures of my painting.. it can serve as my e-memory when I forget when I painted the same and what was I thinking!

This one was painted yesterday (06 March 2011), Sunday rainy evening.. it was getting dark.. and I painted a candle! Simple eh!


My friend felt, the 'flame should have been mild'. Well technically I agree with him. But I believe, when I say, "What u see black, I see white.. what u see colorful, I see grey.. what u see white, I see colorless.... come lets paint a picture.. your vision, my colors!"


Let's see how it shapes... no harm in getting it wrong.. :)