Lucky Bamboo

Sketch 9

Sketch- 3

Friends

This painting depicts how companions used to spend their time during summer. Summer means holidays. Televisions, video games, social media was missing from people's lives and friends spent countless hours in the company of each other. 

Summer meant day dreaming together, chasing dreams, talking your heart out. Discussing each and every thought harboring in the heart. Just sitting idle in the shade of a tree, watching clouds change their forms, enjoying the bond of silence with your best friend. Picking flowers for decorating the house, adorning the hair or making garlands for Gods and Goddesses. 

Nature also specializes in accessorizing summer with the most brilliant flowers, fiery orange of Gulmohar (Delonix regia) depicted in the painting and sunshine yellow of Amaltas (Cassia fistula) are the two very prominent beauties of the brutal Indian summer.

Painting By Kanak Sinha

Bangle Seller

Continuing with Mrs. Kanak Sinha's paintings. She grew up mostly in cities and towns yet village compositions were frequently painted by her. 

This painting depicts a bangle seller, selling bangles door to door. There was a time when they used to visit homes and roam the streets with a basket on their head.

The basket used to have glass bangles of different colours tied separately. They were tied size -wise and colour-wise in a circle with pieces of threads. People used to call them, as in, shout from their verandahs for them. 

When they came over, the women and girls of the household used to go berserk. Bangle sellers had something for everyone. From the broadest wrists to the tiniest of wrists. 

That day each and every female would load their wrists with atleast 4 dozen bangles...2 dozen in each hand. Think of a colour and it was there. The domestic help were also asked to come and choose, they received bangles as gift. 

During wedding season, they were especially invited to come and adorn the wrists of bride-to-be with special very thin and delicate golden bangles. The price of the bride's bangles used to be non negotiable. 

Painting By Kanak Sinha

Woman 3

Journey-2

The first thing I learnt from veteran bloggers was "never give up" and "maintain a steady posting  rate". I tried to maintain it and the traffic started increasing. It was very encouraging to see people from many countries checking the blog. Being a color lover my sketches started becoming more colorful and some of them attracted the attention of friends who wanted to adorn their walls with the artwork.

Made a few more artworks with colors being the main focus, 

In free hand sketching the flow that comes most naturally is the shape of a leaf and many similar artworks got made without my noticing them.

I was asked to stop making leaves and I made a few abstracts.

The thing about a diverse audience is that people of all tastes express their ideas and no two beings being same, the opinions are poles apart. Some people loved the abstracts while others wanted to see compositions. So I decided to sit down patiently and give the artwork some time.The result was one of my  personal favorites.

 The love for the  form of roses took lead and I ended up posting many sketches of roses depicting my higher love for colors.

   

It was impossible to neglect some very important days celebrated worldwide and when those days approached it was but natural to sketch something related to them; some of the sketches which depicted some important days were Valentine's Day, Women's Day, St. Patrick's Day and World Water Day.

 Of all the posts, Woman has been the Queen of posts since the day I posted it. It definitely shows how the thinking of people is changing and today's generation is not revolting against competition from women.