Some old quilled typography works by me

I really love to spend my time at HOME when I have holidays or on the weekends when the office is closed. I really don’t get bored at all and don’t even feel the urge to go out!! Even if I go for shopping I finally find myself roaming in the stationary corners and reliance time out or in the city market (with proper planning) to buy stuff for my craft works. I really feel that my shopping focus has shifted from buying cosmetics and dresses. :P

So here is my second board on a word, made by quilling

The font type is “ARIAL” (small letters) and the beehive is done by loose coils made with graduated yellow-orange and yellow-white paper strips of width 2mm.

The flowers are Malaysian flowers on top of basic quilled flowers. Leaves are made with two tone green-white paper strips.

Here are some more:

This one is one of my favorite one from the stock, "Krishna". The peacock feather is the real one which is used as an embellishment.

After this, I have made this one which is "Shiva" with a blue color theme and again one of my favorite from the stock.

Happy birthday frame

Customized nameplate

Customized quotes

All these are either sold or gifted to friends and family. And, I am happy that my creations are now spreading happiness.

Mural painting_Radha Krishna Series

A small gift for my sweet Maa…

I have finished my 3^rd canvas Mural painting. This is also on a 12X16 (A3) sized canvas and the painting are named as “Krishna wooing Radha”, that describes Krishna and Radha and the “Gopis”. I loved doing the “dot-shading” parts in the figures. “Sap Green” is the predominant color in this picture.  This is my first mural painting on Radha Krishna.

The following two are next in this series.

The Famous Art of Jaipur...GOLD painting on MARBEL

Wow !!! That's the word that came out from my heart when I saw the final handmade Jaipur art piece that I was able to make in 3 days, in a Jaipur miniature art workshop,  still ongoing in RT Nagar, Bangalore. My BIG Thank you (maybe thank you is too small to explain my actual feelings and respect) to an eminent artist from Jaipur, Master Vishnu Soni, who came and taught us this beautiful masterpiece of art. Other things that will be covered were miniature Jaipur painting, miniature Mughal painting, stamp and postcard painting etc, in the 10 days long workshop. A big thanks to Shabana, who organizes these workshops at her school, THINK COLOR and we get an opportunity to work with the actual artists. Last time, it was a ceramic 3D Mural, that I learned and had already posted.

Coming to "Gold Painting on Marble", each and every step was a learning process. Starting from the handmade pencil sketch, embossing, gold covering, meenakari and the final touch up with stones were so intricate. I was really nervous when I was doing the pencil sketch. I have in fact forgotten when I had last done a pencil sketch, maybe during my school days!! Sir made we practice on trial plates till we reached the perfection. Perfect finishing  makes any art piece "awesome" and that's what I learned from every artist who taught me different forms of arts. That's made the difference. The knowledge that gets transferred is just priceless. Now I truly realize how much labor, attention and affection one has to devote to make a piece a "masterpiece".

I am really happy to see the final piece, and for a second could not believe that I made these !!!

 Few snapshots of the making:

(A) Freehand pencil sketching on marble

 (B) Embossing followed by painting with pearl gold color

 (C) Covering with 24 karats pure Gold leafs ("Patris")...its pure gold only !!

And then multiple steps that include the outlining, shading, use of stone colors, meenakari with glass colors and finally adorning it with stones :)

List of material used to make this piece:

1. Marble cut pieces (from Jaipur)
2. Texture white and Fevicol mix(3:1) ..for embossing
3. Pearl gold color hobby ideas
4. 24 karat gold leaf
5. Stone outlines
6. Stone shading color
7. Special handmade brush made of hair from Squirrel tail (it's a must for this kind of painting)
8. Water
9. Glass color red and green
10. Poster white and yellow
11. Border color stone yellow

Similar painting can be done on black chart paper, of different sizes and also of different types of designs e.g musical instrument. I have selected this royal jewelry set of necklace, kilonji (used to adorn the crown), and broch-bangle set. The final one, bound in a golden bordered wooden frame, talks all about it !! I feel lucky :)