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“Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.” – Simon Van Booy

With the onset of festive season, this is my first rangoli for the season. Though the lines are crooked and imperfect it does capture the festive vibe.

Happy Shankranti to everyone celebrating it!!!

Happy Rangoli!!!

Birds

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious” – Oscar Wilde

The little birdie brought me back to my colorful life. I tend to keep my promise if 2 paintings per month moving forward.

Happy Painting !

Footprints

“Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Unknown

I came across this chick the other night, frightened and shivering on my stairs. I knew if I left it there the cat would eat it so I got it in. It took me on a roller-coaster ride since then. All it did was eat and climb and poo. I looked more like a tree to it and I didn’t mind 🙂 Finally after a couple of days we had to part ways….

However it brought me back to my art and I love it for that. I refer to it as “IT” becoz I couldn’t figure out if it was male or female 🙂

Stay Safe little chick!!!

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“We do not want to possess a faith, we require a faith that will possess us” – Swami Chinmayananda

This one I did on the exterior wall, lets see if the colors survive the summer heat. My peacock obsession continues 🙂 . I need a pot for my jade plant.

Happy painting!!!

Gardening & Healing

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” – Marcus Tullius Ceciro

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I have been bitten by the gardening bug lately hence soaking in a lot of Vitamin D in my small apartment garden. Some researchers say that gardening helps reduce stress and anxiety. Some others say that the more you involved with mother earth the clearer your skin gets :). I don’t mind having all of that !!!

Happy Gardening!!!

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“You do not learn anything by doing everything right” – Unknown

Happy Rangoli !!!

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“Cultures grow on the vine of tradition” – Jonah Goldberg

The above rangoli represents abundance with pots brimming and overflowing with milk. The festival Makar Shankranti celebrates the Sun God entering into Capricorn(Makar) constellation thus Sun starts its journey in the Northern Hemisphere. This is also a harvesting festival(since most of our ancestors were farmers) so people pray to Sun for abundance and prosperity.

A chariot for the Sun God 🙂

Happy Rangoli!!!

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“Fly high but keep the soul connected to root” – Amlan

Sankranti is also a festival when kids and adults alike fly kites. So I decided to make kite my theme. Actually.. the truth is I just kept making a square rangoli but still wasn’t satisfied because it didnot look complete. Then my husband came to my rescue and suggested I make the tail to make it look like a kite.  If not for him I would have broken my back on day one of the festival. And for what ??? so that the cow can eat it in 15 mins. I used rice flour and flower petals to make it and the cows might have thought that I was serving breakfast …. uffff

So much for my eco friendliness!!!

Happy Rangoli!!!

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“Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it” – Marie Curie

Peacock has been my recent obsession…. for no reason what so ever. Trying to draw all types of peacocks and in different ways 🙂

Happy Rangoli!!!

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“Faith is – to believe what you do not see; the reward of which is – you see what you believed” – Swami Chinmayananda

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“A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear” – Yvan Byeajee

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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph” – Thomas Paine

It’s been a long time I have made some art, feels so good. However spending more time with books which is equally peaceful 🙂

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“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!

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“I am very out of style .. or I should say I have my own style” – Alexandra Paul

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!

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“Not everyday is easy. Not everyday is the same” – Unknown

I need to get out of this black mode, looks like I keep drifting into it quite often. I will try this again tomorrow but for today I think I am done…

Formal Lockdown is over but I don’t think I am getting out of the house anytime soon. Better safe than be sorry!!! My work is also starting to pick up pace so I will try to keep up with painting as much as I can. I enjoyed doing art during these Corona-lockdown times and thank you everyone who kept me going with your motivating comments and likes. I wish you all a healthy life!!!

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!

Lockdown-day 66

“Success is the best revenge” – Unknown

Happy Photoshop-ing…. Happy Blogging !!!

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“Everything you can imagine is real” – Picasso

Happy Photoshop-ing…. Happy Blogging !!!

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Lockdown-day 64

“I prefer living in color” – David Hockney

Happy Photoshop-ing…. Happy Blogging !!!

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Lockdown-day 57

“The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?” – Picasso

Happy Sketching…. Happy Blogging !!!

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Lockdown-day 54

“Colors are brighter when the mind is open” – Adriana Alarcon

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I slogged to make it brighter and colorful and at the end I like the black-white ones better 🙂

Happy Photoshop-ing…. Happy Blogging !!!

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!

Lockdown-day 42

“A goal should scare you a little, and excite you A LOT” – Joe Vitale

Zodiac sign – Sagittarius

Happy Painting…. Happy Blogging !!!

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Lockdown-day 41

“Destruction after all is a form of creation” – Graham Greene

Gemini Twins

Happy Painting…. Happy Blogging !!!

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Lockdown-day 33

“Love what you do; do what you love” – Wayne W Dyer

I missed painting. Learning and going digital is good but I love drawing and using my brushes 🙂

Happy Painting…. Happy Blogging !!!

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!

Lockdown-day 22

“Things end but memories last forever” – Kumar Milan

It’s the Lychee season but I might miss it this time as it is not an essential commodity. Guess I will be eating a lot of mangoes this summer to compensate for this.

Happy Painting…. Happy Blogging !!!

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!

Lockdown-day 19

“Music is a safe kind of high” – Jimi Hendrix

Happy Painting…. Happy Blogging !!!

Stay Home and Stay Safe !!!