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“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
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ART PEACE
tapping the creative 'right' side of my brain
Archive for the tag “colorful”
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“I am very out of style .. or I should say I have my own style” – Alexandra Paul
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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!!!
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Lockdown-day 66
“Success is the best revenge” – Unknown
Happy Photoshop-ing…. Happy Blogging !!!
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Lockdown-day65
“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
I slogged to make it brighter and colorful and at the end I like the black-white ones better 🙂
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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
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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 🙂
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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.
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Lockdown-day 19
“Music is a safe kind of high” – Jimi Hendrix
Happy Painting…. Happy Blogging !!!
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Lockdown-day 14
“All good things are wild and free” – Henry David Thoreau
Looks like I will be doing some painting a lot longer than I intended to. My company is asking me to take leave and go on a loss of pay till things get better… whenever that will be !!!
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Cheating
“Cheating isn’t a mistake, it’s a choice” – Unknown
I had once read a quote “You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it’s not a mistake, it’s a choice”. So why am I talking about it here. Hmmm … I started this painting some 4-5 months back when I was looking for a job. Then I got one and got busy … very busy. Finally when I got time to complete it I had lost interest but true to my nature I can’t abandon it and move to the next one so I finish doing the entire outline using a pen instead of paint. I had done the same with my other painting – Self-torture , instead of painting I used the pen to finish the detail. On one side I am glad I am through with this one and can move onto the other but I am not proud of myself. the artist in me screamed “cheater” the whole time but in my defense I had lost patience, interest and wanted to just finish this one and move on.
This got me into thinking – are we trying to pass on our bad choices as mistakes? My bad choice got the job done faster and easier but if I get used to it, it will prove fatal in the long run. It will always leave me feeling bad at the end and I will regret the road I have taken.
So this time I am going to challenge myself – to be true to myself no matter what. If I love painting so much I will have to make the time and effort to complete it so that I am not left feeling guilty at the end of it. My next ones going to be all detail oriented. So wish me luck !!!
Madness
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness” – Friedrich Nietzsche
The fight with my inner sloth was finally worth it. I have never painted such huge projects so fast. This was completed in just 4 days and looks like the long gap I had has its own positives. I had some new ideas but true to myself – went crazy with colors 🙂
Happy painting !!!
Durga
“..If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way” – Napolean Hill
Drawing in sketchbooks has never been my thing, when I start drawing or coloring, things just get out of proportion. But these days with my busy office schedule I don’t get the conviction enough to finish huge projects hence trying to teach myself to draw small. A drawing book which I can probably carry with myself as well. Wouldn’t that be nice !!!
Pedestrian
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” – Confucius
The two things I enjoy as a pedestrian in India is the simplicity around me and the colors. Even after such technological advances you can always find places where people and things move at a turtle pace and it all looks so peaceful and connected to nature.
Cattle herd returning home after leisurely grazing the whole day. BIT Mesra, Ranchi, the place where I was brought up and completed my education. Life there is so slooowww, nothing much has changed yet. All the while I was there I wanted to move to the city and to fast life and now I spend humongous amounts of money for a peaceful day or two.
Shopping market at Church Complex, Ranchi.
Love the Indian shops they are all so colorful and bright. They never fail to change my mood 🙂
DP Photo Challenge: Pedestrian
Mandala 2
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
I think I went a little overboard with green and messed up with this one. It doesn’t look like one integrated piece … What do you say???
Mandala 1
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” – Stephen Covey
With my new job and new challenges I am not able to take time out for painting. So I went looking for Van Gough in a box, not that I would endorse that idea very much but this is the best I could do in my current situation and came across this Manadala book – Coloring for Calm. So now a days I am trying to satisfy my artistic itch by filling in colors into the patterns hoping for peace and more free time.
I found this really a good way to meditate also as you have to stay very focused while filling in the finer details. So coloring away and hoping for peace of mind and time so that I can get back to my primitive ways of painting.
Untill then you gotta do what you gotta do!!!
Priority
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Recently I was reading this book, “The One Thing” by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan; and got into thinking about priorities and choices. As adults when we have a choice and everything is at our discretion, is there a clear formula for making decisions so that we can make the best decisions for us and not trade them for just any decision?
I found my answer in PRIORITY, as long as we pause and think what really matters to us and let that drive our day/decisions we will have a sense of progress and can avoid getting trapped in busyness.
This painting was inspired by two thoughts –
- How important our environment is – we should make all effort to keep the earth beautiful as it should be so that we can enjoy living in it.
- How important our environment is – we should surround ourselves with people who add value to our life’s so that we can stay positive, productive and happy.
Random Thoughts!!!
Simplicity
“No amount of anxiety can change the future, No amount of regret can change the past” – Karen Salmansohn
Peacocks 12″X12″ board
It’s been a while I have painted something, one because of a relocation AGAIN… but more than that I have been overthinking a lot about what to paint and planning for a complicated project, but when I couldn’t come up with anything I just took the board and paint and did a simple art piece – which makes me happy 🙂
Sva-vida
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand” – Frank Herbert
Acrylics on a 12″ X 12″ board
I am seriously running out of ideas, this the best I could come up with after months of break.
Rajasthani Woman
“Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion” – Ved Vyasa (The Bhagavat Gita)
Acrylics on 16″ X 24″ canvas board
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