♣  The Serene Beauty of Nature made me pick up the brush......

                 I am a cityite. My childhood memories include the green valleys of Bagamandalai in  Coorg  Dist. and Yekkar  in  South Kannara  Dist.  Two beautiful sleepy villages in the State of Karnataka in India.

                 Beautiful Serene Valley of Coorg  has some amazingly beautiful  picturesque locations especially Talkaveri where the river Cavery originates and Bagamandala a village near by which has a  Sangama of three rivers i.e three rivers meet to flow as one thereon. My maternal Grandfather's house which had a beautiful Rose garden in the front and "the Well" nearby. The house is surrounded by trees all around and has a river flowing by. And  the distant mountains  which are visible thro' the trees....

               Whereas Yekkar  has the open paddy fields, The images of the farmer  ploughing , directing the Oxen  thro' the field ,  all the while uttering encouraging words which has a high pitched resonance effect to it, Or the women  working  in the fields singing with their rustic voices is still fresh in my mind. The different stages of paddy growing in the fields has the spectrum of colour moving from brown to green to yellow. And then there was my Grandfather's  Big House with a big Swing where we spent some happy moments. I also remember spending the afternoons sitting on a window sill or the teakwood cot placed near the window at the back of the house enjoying the tremendous  afternoon breeze blowing  thro' and watching the paddy grass in the fields swaying joyfully and hearing the leaves of the big trees rustle......

 So I went about trying to capture Nature on My Canvas......,

like a Kid trying to capture the butterflies in his net......... 

♣♣  Just a thought...............

I have enjoyed painting these scapes so much
 that I wonder at God's joy at creating the world and us.
And having created us,
 is He disappointed in us for destroying his world in the name of
progress ?????

or
is He indulging us like parents do of their favorite child ????..

♣♣♣  About my digital paintings,  I'm loving it..creating e_paintings that is....

1]  Shri Krishna: I have'nt diffrentiated His colour from the background colour  cause blue is the sky...which is space... which in turn is the  universe .....and ...........        KRISHNA is the Universe   .........  hence the Uni colour.

2] The Wall graffiti : In India people have Gods' figures painted on the outer side of their compound walls to stop others from sticking posters or dirting the walls..I just picked up the idea for a griffiti painting. The first figure is of Lord Shiva. His abode is the snow peaked Kailash Mountain. Hence I have painted Him as an icy figure.. 

3] Diwali : is my november showcase entry.

4] Different Perceptions :There was this experiment conducted at ART Lab ,where we were given a landcape and asked to create another landscape using a part or the whole of the original .. I could have painted a gloomy picture but there is too much gloominess in our world and I feel art should liven our lives ... hence my perception of the experiment..

5] Sunflower : I have noticed that sunflower is a must in ur portfolio..this is my digital interpretation of the Sunfllower.

6] Floral Essence : I have dipicted the essence of the flower dispersing thro' air.

7] Towards Enlightment : Tried to dipict the transformation of  the Soul when it reaches it's goal in the Quest for Truth.

 8].......Comming soon......

♣♣♣♣     M y     S h o w c a s e      E n t r i e s :

 "Shree Laxmi ~ Goddess of Prosperity"

 This particular painting of Goddess Laxmi is with mask to suggest that She is a known figure yet she is an unknown entity.

"Rose twig on the floor"

Rose is a rose is a rose …but so is the leaflet ,very beautifull !

"Dusk G(r)azzing" 

~ the rural tranqulity of the landscape facinated me ~

 "Light Melting Darkness ~ Deepavali"

We just celebrated the festival of Lights i,e Deepavali where lamps are lit to celebrate the victory over darkness (evil) within and outside and Goddess Laxmi is invoked to bless us with prosperity (positive energy).

January Entry :

 " The Wall Graffiti "

In India people have Gods' figures painted on the outer side of their compound walls to stop others from sticking posters or dirting the walls..I just picked up the idea for a griffiti painting. The first figure is of Lord Shiva. His abode is the snow peaked Kailash Mountain. Hence I have painted Him as an icy figure.. The 2nd figure is of Shri Krishn. I haven't diffrentiated His colour from the background because the sky is blue.. sky is space...which in turn is the Universe ...and KRISHNA is the Universe   .........  hence the Uni colour.