A farmer's life

Title - A Farmer's life
Size - 22 x 15
Medium - Watercolor on paper
Photo courtesy - Satyesh Naik

Sharing a song for you. I came across this song just a couple of days back. I do not understand the language (There are about 30 odd languages in India. I know only 3 languages). But the feel of the song is very melancholic and I just loved it. Later I found out that it is about a farmer in debt. And hence sharing it here.
Patras Karan Ki..

Something different..

Title - Salandi

Size - 11 x 15 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper
Photo courtesy - Satyesh Naik

Well as the title suggests its actually not something different, but something that I attempted in a different way. It is a landscape after all. But I was attacking the paper more. In fact I generally do not attack paper while painting, but here I was doing that. And I was making an effort not to move away too many times from the painting to see how things are going. I would really appreciate if you leave your honest comments for this one.

Kondh Village

Title - Kondh Village
Size - 10 x 14 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper
Photo courtesy - Satyesh Naik

Here is the painting of the sketch that I had posted in my last post. It is a tribal village inside a wildlife sanctuary in Odisha. The blog post about this sanctuary can be seen here.

Satyesh, thanks for the pic.

India art gallery Pune is running an abridged online version of my solo show for some days under emerging artist's section. A big thanks to them. The exhibition can be seen here.

I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a good one too.

Hadagarh, NGMA and a sketch

Title - Dusk at Hadagarh
Size - 11 x 15 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Title - Plein air at NGMA
Size - 14 x 10 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Watercolor sketch of a tribal village

When a painting has a lot of area unpainted it is always a temptation to fill in something. I got tempted too but I think I did not go. Somehow I managed to stop and let it be. So I was actually quiet happy about that.

This photo was taken from my friend's blogpost on the dying Hadagarh sanctuary in Odisha. In my painting I wanted to see the river touching the horizon and hence I increased the height of my viewing point for the painting.

Last Sunday I had gone out to NGMA with my weekend drawing club friends to do some plein air work. The biggest difficulty was to get a place where you could sit in the shade of trees and paint a nice view that had enough light.

And lastly I am posting a sketch in preparation for a painting.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day.

Coexistence

Title - Coexistence - II
Size - 22 x 15 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Title - Coexistence - I
Size - 22 x 15 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Nature is truth. Probably absolute truth. Culture is a subjective truth. Culture is man made. It is anti nature. Nature has to be destroyed for culture to thrive. And when the side effects of culture becomes unbearable nature strikes back. It destroys culture. But a new culture flourishes again. Nature and culture are opposing forces. But at the same time both validate each other. Both give meaning to each other. Nature and culture co-exist. The balance of power keeps shifting, but they exist together to define each other.

Black, White and Brown

Title - The Brown Gai
Size - 14 x 10 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Title - The White Gai
Size - 14 x 10 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Title - The Black Gai
Size - 14 x 10 inch
Medium - Watercolor on paper

Gai in my mother tongue means cow. It also sound like 'guy'............