Peacock

I delayed my this week's 'theme art' by a day and wanted to compensate by posting two paintings this week. This ones just a recreation of http://goo.gl/zmu88. I think the day I told HK that I was going to start updating my blog regularly with paintings if not writings, she sent me this and said she wants me to make one for her.

Though its a little too late, I finally made it and gave it to her :)! The colours definitely look brighter in the original one, but quite happy with this one too.

Happiness!

This week's theme was 'happiness'. It was my turn to come up with a theme and happiness was something HK had suggested a couple of weeks back, used it this time!

I started with things that come to my mind with the word happiness...balloons, then flowers, leaves, a heart hidden somewhere and finally ended up with just a super medley of colours!!! And yes colours do make me happy :D! This is my second attempt at acrylics and the brush strokes are still a little shaky. Nevertheless posting it since it also makes me happy that this is my first ever shot at a canvas! 

Motion!

This week's theme was motion. What best would describe motion in an artistic way other than dance movements! The first thing that came to my mind was a sine wave :D... sine wave took form of a wave, then circular motion and finally a dance move. 

I'm yet to get hold of a bright red colour and always end up with something having a crimson shade. And didn't want to use many colours for this too, hence the sort of patchy work!I did think of a couple of other things related to motion...might get down to try those too some day :)!

Landscape, with acrylics!

This week's theme was 'Landscape'! I have been thinking of deviating from water colours for a while now, just to try out something new and eventually learn to use oil paints. And my friends Sri and Viji as if read my mind!! Just before their post-wedding party they gifted me a brand new set of acrylic paints and brushes! 

Obviously now I had to make this week's painting with my new colours. Except that I had never before used acrylics and had almost zero knowledge about anything to do with them. This was an experiment and though it looks like a five year old's painting, I'm glad I made a start! Also made me realize how different acrylic painting is from water colours. I guess I have to perfect the technique slowly by trying out new things as and when I paint. 

This landscape here is inspired by the art by Leonid Afremov, http://goo.gl/ZfRVa. 

3D magic!

I love coincidences!! This week's theme was decided to be 3D. And what are the odds that HK shares an interesting piece of art just two days before I actually sat down to paint.

This one is not an original idea, it is courtesy http://goo.gl/QvjVE. I loved it when I saw it and couldn't resist trying it out myself. Isn't as 3D as I imagined it to be but sure becomes my post for this week :)!