The Unborn (A Painting)

After a long time I did a water painting. This time what I painted was quite different from my usual attempts.

The base of this painting is a doodle where I just closed my eyes and scribbled whatever shapes my hand drew. Once I felt I had scribbled enough I stopped and opened my eyes.

Then I concentrated on all the weird lines that lay in front of me.  And slowly an image started appearing out of these shapes. This is the image I drew over again leaving out lines that did not form a part of the image that I saw.

This was the final image I saw and painted. I call it 'The Unborn'. I saw a mother holding a new born child but I still called it 'The Unborn' because of the way the image turned out. It seems like the child is still inside the mother wrapped up away from all worldly harm.

I chose green to represent the mother because a mother is the provider all her life for the child. The child is in red - representing the childlike energy. And behind the mother is a yellow hallow - it represents the shielding nature of the mother.

The Unborn

I hope you all like it!

You can view my other water color attempts as well
Soul
Faceless Expressions
Water Colors Again (three different paintings)
Bringing Back Old Memories

Water colours again

Just wanted to share another post on some paintings I did - again water colours on paper.

A Lone Tree

The Chinese text says HOPE!

The Chinese text says HAPPINESS!

Hope you like them!

Bringing back old memories

I was sitting in my cube in office today and after a long time I noticed the paintings I had put up. These paintings and sketches are old - very old (almost 10 years old).
Since I haven't been doing much with paints lately I thought of sharing what I already have.
Looking at them just brings back sweet old memories, a blank paper, some active imagination, some inspiration and my paints.
Hope you like looking at them!

Inspiration - Aishwarya in the movie Taal (pencil sketch)

The Gaze - water colours on paper (random imagination)

Mermaid - water colour on paper (random imagination)

Vodafone Kid in their old print ads (pencil sketch)

Soul - water colors on paper

This is my interpretation of music - its a part of our soul - again water colors on paper

Faceless Expressions - water color paintings

I have dabbled with water colors now and then - in fact water colors are the easiest to use and give me a sense of calm. The lightness of the color, the ease with which it spreads on paper - I just love it.
Painting with water colors is what we are taught in school and since then I have always fallen back on this technique whenever I am painting just for gaining my inner peace.
There is something about the wet colors as they transform on paper which takes me to a different world altogether.
Here are two paintings that I did long back - I call them faceless expressions.
Hope you like them.

Handpainted - Angrakha Style

Hi - I bought this really nice summery fabric to get a kurta (shirt) stitched out of it - the ground color is a lovely lemon - apt for the scorching summers.
And it simply called out to me saying it had to be painted. I have never done fabric painting before but I knew I had to try it out.
The first challenge was to think of some pattern - now I knew I did not want the regular paisley (ambi) or rose patterns - and I did not want to do a 'booty' style of pattern where you draw small patterns all over the cloth.
So I searched for designs on the web - again nothing caught my fancy - so I let my imagination doodle some flowers and leaves in my sketchbook. I wasn't still sure of the pattern but I was losing patience. I just took hold of my fabric - roughly measured out where my neck would go - just as I was about to draw the neck line I decided to switch to an angrakha style - so I went ahead and marked lightly where the neck would be cut out. Next I placed the fabric on top of my doodle and simply started stenciling it out - I kept repeating the pattern turning the cloth as I fancied.
I finally had a pattern that looked good to me - I was actually surprised but I finally had something I liked and I could picture the colors that I had to get.
So out I went to the stationary shop and bought the following colors (Fevicryl acrylic paints):
1. Olive Green
2. Indian Red
3. Magenta
4. White
5. Chrome yellow (I couldn't find lemon yellow so decided to make do with this)

For the flowers I mixed white with the different shades of paint and let my imagination run wild. The leaves were mainly done in olive green with a touch of Indian red at certain places.

The outcome (I don't have very good images to show it - hopefully when the kurta is stitched I will update with a better pic)