Water Color Nail Art - Rainbow Rain

Hi friends, today I'm sharing a recent nail art I did for the September nail art challenge in the STNChallenges. This month is all about learning new techniques. I have never done water color nails before and it was fun to create these rainbow nails.

Water color nail art is a technique where you thin out polish with acetone and apply it on your nails and before it dries out you lift off most of the color using a brush or a Q-tip (ear-bud). This leaves a ring of color with a pale hint inside. Depending on how you apply the thinned out polish you can get various results on your nails.

Water Color Nail Art - Rainbow Rain

In my case I used thinned out acrylic paints instead of polish to create a rainbow effect on my nails.


And later on I stamped over it using Mo You London Suki plate to create a rain effect.


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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.