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...

cows head

I made this small approx 8.5cms*8.5cms oil on paper for wde hosted by Dominic. This was very quick, took about 25minutes start to finish.... guess it was the old man that helped it get over so fast...

I like the impressionistic style of this work.

men at work - wde 04-jan

This is oil on oil paper, size approx 9cms*6cms... very small.

I made this for the wde hosted by Li. It must have taken an hour in total.

new years resolution...!

This year I have made a resolution that will push me take more rapid steps in my journey of art.... I call this the 35 sketches a week challenge. I think good sketching is fundamental to good work may it be a painting, graphic, sculptor etc and its important to have the flow, which I need to develop. No rules as such but the sketches have to be quick and not detailed ones. Quick is a key word, confident lines one of the goals. I will be posting the sketches for respective week during every weekend.

If possible, I will also try to incorporte the lessons from "How to draw what you see" by Rudy De Reyna in this challenge.

Bon Voyage!

wde 01-dec : butterfly in the blue box

This is acrylic on canvas and size 6"*8". Took about 1 1/2 hour to complete.

thorns in my mind

The photograph was taken by a fellow wder Li. I think she did a great job with the composition and colours. I knew I had to paint this the moment I saw it. After about 25mintues of sketching and another 15 minutes of initial paint layer, the painting as seen in WIP1 and looked promising. But after spending another hour and a half and with the WIP2, I concluded that this is not something I can pursue right now. And I decided to put some creativity in and finished it at what can be seen in the final one. Its acrylics on paper approx 17.5cms*17.5cms and took a total of 3 hours.

WIP1

WIP2

Finished painting

Original

ice tea

Ice Tea was done after a long break. I made it for the wde of 01-jun. Thould I made a sketch the same weekend, I didnt start painting untill today. The last two weeks have been terribly hot and unbearable. So I was just surviving and couldnt even think of any work apart from "work" at office.

The monsoon god(megh raj) finally graced Delhi on friday and life is much better. The greens are greener, temperature nice, not much dust and on a whole more potent atmosphere for some work. I woke up at 5.40 in the morning and felt like painting. And picked up this one to work on. It is acrylics on strathamore watercolour paper. Approx size is 15cms*25cms. After completion, it found place on my closet : )

WIP
Final work

foggy harbour... where's the fog - wde

Foggy Harbour was painted on 16th dec for wde hosted by JamieWG. This is 15cms*20.5cms, oil on canvas. I was very happy to be able to complete this painting in less than 2hours and am looking forward to take up oils a little seriously now. I now wonder if I should add some clouds since something is amiss in the sky…!

sold

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....

Vancouver city skyline - wde

I am working on another image from last weeks wde. It is a harbour scene. I started working with oils. But after the first coat I realised that it is not going to work since it was taking a lot of time[still wet after 5 days] to dry and would get spoiled with the huge amount of dust that keeps coming into our house from god knows where. So I moved to acrylics and below is the canvas after the first coat.

Also posting the reference image…
Just realised that the colours look quite different…. hmmmm…. not my mistake, I was painting from a printout which has taken different tones of the original. This point on, I will keep coming back to the computer to have colours close to original.

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.

pouch cove - wde

This is acrylics on drawing paper approx size 28cms*19cms.














This is how the work-in-progress looked for the pouch cove. I had a tough time handling the acrylic colour since it was drying so fast....














And this is how it looked after finishing. I love the movement on the wave and the nice turquoisy highlights in the water.....

starfish - wde