Coloured Bits Of Life

Print Mania

Recently I attended a class in print-making and these are some of prints i did there.Well it was mostly related to the 2012 Olympics but these are off topic ones that i managed to do.I feel printing can be addictive - its easy,fast and kick starts your creativity. And all that you need are a couple of rollers, glass plates(can even be a big tile) and a few colours of water based inks.

Old Master Painting Method

Hi.......

This post I thought I’ll tell you guys how I paint and since I started the volunteer work at The Wallace Collection I am more determined to learn about eighteenth and nineteenth-century French paintings and their technique. For now I mostly like the Dutch and Flemish method of painting, which is also known as 7 layer method. As the name says it all it’s done with multitude of paint layers (not just 7!!) of transparent oil paints. I learnt this method by reading about Rembrandt, Rubens and other artists of the 17 -18th century. Also I bought DVD lessons from Johnnie Liliedahl (who has some excellent old master reproductions DVD lessons) and Alexei Antonov's video Workshop “Claret Grapes". These video lessons did help me in improving my technique and brush-work and the most importantly in understanding the colour mixing for old master paintings.

Umber final layer

Dead layer 1

Dead layer - final

Final colour layer

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Mono prints

I have always liked etching and line drawings done by Rembrandt and others.....so this "mono-printing" is the closest that I have tried doing, inspired by the etchings. Well as the name pretty much says it all Mono printing is done with a single colour. When i got a chance at my class to try it I started off with some real messy and dark prints but once I got the excess ink off, the successive images where much better and did achieve some amazing prints.

coloured guppies

I always thought colour pencils are for school kids. How wrong I was!! Colour pencils is almost like pencil sketching but the end result is a million times more impressive with all the different values and hues produced by layering colours.
This is one of my favorite colour pencil works i have done..ever!!

This one is from a book that i copied as a practice work.

This is my work inspired by the colourful spring flowers.

Knife painting

This is my first ever palette knife painting and I am so so proud of the way it turned out.Well i always thought knife painting is messy and very amateurish...but am wrong.It is fun and great to get some nice textures and you do get to play around with paint.

pour and cling

As the title suggests its just as simple as that...this was my first work in my art class. The first one as instructed i used the primary oil colours and used the cling film to create textures.The second and the third was me in an experimenting and a daring mood!!..i used acrylics and really like the textures i got. As for the fates of these three works -
I used the first one to work a seascape into the already created texture.Just used darker shades of blue and white to get the waves and water splash.And left the top most part of blue, green (blue + yellow mixed when i put the cling film) and the yellow as the shades for sky.The red bits i created shadows with a dark shade of blue + red (and little black) and they became the rocks.

The second one was the brightly mixed vermilion + yellow, yellow ochre,blue and black.I just like it the way it is with all the twists and turns.It looks like a modern art.

The favorite third...what can i say i loovvee it.It all just came right the shades,the shadows and the lines creating the texture.When i see it all i think of is a stormy sky and the sea splashing wildly and i even found the perfect reference pic for the painting in www.wetcanvas.com. Hopefully will start this painting soon but not just yet.