Fort Rampart : wde 31-Oct

For the wde hosted by Mithila, I decided to go ahead with the reference image of fort ramparts... and make these blocks on a 40cms*30cms canvas with different portions of the ref image... this is in acrylics and had fun doing it...

WIP...

finished painting...

wde 15-Sept Cafe at Arles

Tres had hosted the wde and had posted a few images from places that Van Gogh had visited/painted...
By some vague coincidence, earlier that week, I was flipping through a book "Van Gogh - The Complete Paintings" by a publisher named Taschen... It has all the paintings by Van Gogh...
And it was wonderful that some images for that weeks wde were from places linked to him...
I decided to do the Cafe at Arles... its kind of more leaning towards the original since I painted the top half in blue... kind of ignoring the light coming from the street lights(of modern era)...
This is 12.5cms*18cms, acrylic on sketchpaper...

lilies wde 04-jul

I made these lilies for the wde of 04-Jul... It was a quick piece and got over in about 10minutes... sizes is approx 10cms*8cms... acrylics on thick drawing paper...

wde 14-06

This weeks wde was special... We had lost one of our freinds Connie Wynn and it was decided that as a tribute, we do a subject in atleast 3 mediums... This was Connie's trademark for the wdes... I selected to do the rocking horse...

First of all... a plain sketch with a marker my sister got me... its a very special one... the tip can give a fine line of 2mm and sideways one can have a bold one of about 10mm... made it on a newspaper and turned out to be nice...

second up... didnt work out that good... acrylics on paper... taking it up from last weeks "negative sketch", i wanted to keep the horse plain and work on the background in detail... but went adding more strokes in the horse and had to scrap the idea...

then started with the collage only to realise after cutting a few piece of paper, that i dont have a glue stick at home... so wrapped up this one with just the head done...

coffee maker - wde 08-jun

For the wde hosted by Dewi, I decided to go ahead with the coffee-maker... this is used to make the kopi luwak which is the most expensive coffee in the world...
this is acrylics on 500gms strathmore water colour paper... took less than an hour... size is 22cms*28cms... it was nice to put colour to paper after a long time... this was my first shot at peboe acrylics... not sure if it was these colours or bangalore weather but the colours stayed wet for longer on palette than the camlin acrylics I use otherwise...
I started directly with brush and colour and did the negative first... like this better than the finished one...

finished painting :)

starbucks mint box

tipsy boat wde 26-05

This was a rough painting that I made for the wde on 26-May. The cabin portion makes the boat a bit tipsy... : )

autorickshaw at the corner

This is acrylics on canvas of size 20.5cms*25cms. In the first coat, I tried using the acrylic matt medium but discontinued it later since it made the painting look too dry... I am happy with the way its turned out and will be framing it....:)

mysterious friend - wde

This was one of the images that I had provided for the wde I hosted on 01-Dec. The image is of a friend of mine and was ready to go to another friends marriage when the picture was taken. Everyone at the wde found his look mysterious so I named this painting so....
This is acrylic on canvas board of size 30.5cms*25cms.
I also used the acrylic retardent that I bought in Bangalore. Though it didnt help keep the paint wet on the canvas, it did keep the paint on the palette wet for a while.
This was my first portrait and I am happy with the result in terms that there is some appreciable continuity in the skin tones. Also the eyes look good. There is though a huge scope for improvement…lol
Once the face was done, I painted the tunic and headgear really quick in a loose style.

eggs or amoeba - wde

I have come to bangalore for work. I had not carried any of my paints/brushes. But when I found that there was net connection at the flat I couldnt resist joining the wde…. and with some difficuty found a store and picked up a canvas 15cms*20cms, burnt sienna acrylic colour and a brush…. the result….
This weeks wde was hosted by Al and he had posted black and white colour pics and had aksed to add colours as one wished. But I couldnt put colours since the store had small tubes of burnt sienna only… all other colours were either 120ml tubes or only in sets of 12….

A good thing I found in that store was drying retardents for acrylics. I will try it when I’m back home the coming weekend.

Rest is good… the weather is wonderful in Bangalore and nice. Love the greenery here…. But also that the place where I’m staying is upmarket….! Wish Delhi was equally greener and had fresher air….

Rooster - wde

For the wde of 25-11, I selected to paint the rooster since I wanted to move away from my favourite colourway green/blue.

Its acrylics on a canvas board of size 20cms*25cms.

Took about 3 hours in total. Surprisingly, I started with painting the background in blue…. but then stuck on to a grey… As always, acrylics posed a little trouble. It started drying and I was struggling to get the colours right. The final painting looks nice, since from a distance a few flaws of the brush-strokes is not evident. Overall a good experience with colour mixing.

Wonder if I will be able to work further on two paintings that I started earlier....

up there - wde

This is painting I did today for the weekend drawing event on wetcanvas.com . This is acrylic on sketch paper, size 13.5cms by 24.5cms. It took me about an hour and 15 minutes to do inclusive of the mess created by a tube of white oil paint that was lying with the acrylics. So the white on the boat is in oils and will take atleast 2 days to dry but I call this done…..

I had planned the composition of the painting to be this….

but the uncropped version is also not bad….

mike mike mike mike....! - wde

This is acrylics on drawing paper, size is 26cms*18cms. I named it after the seagulls in the movie Finding Nemo. Its one of my favourite movies....
This was my first shot at impressionist style and it was fun. Only that if the brush strokes were a little softer, the calmness of the sea would have been better. But am happy with it as it is.
Since there was a challenge for the week, I also did two quick sketches. Will attach them later.

doorway - wde

This is one of the paintings that is still wip. But I plan to finish it before its a year from the day I started...
I first started with an idea to paint this in acrylics on paper.

After doing the initial drawing as above, the subject looed promising and so decided to move to canvas.
This is how the final pencil drawing looked on canvas....

I started with acrylics and after doing the ground paint, felt that the details could be handled better with oils... omg! then moved to oils.. and am still trying to move it forward....lol

I will now post the wips in oil with the final one after completing it.