Ceramic work

The first workshop I attended, apart from paper quilling, had been the ceramic mural workshop with Master Dutta Vaidya from Jaipur, in the year 2013. It was organized by my closest friend and an amazing artist Ms.Shabana Patel, at RT Nagar. The art piece which I learned and completed in this 7-day long workshop was a MERMAID. I learned how to sculpt with M-seal, how to apply painting and how to give the craft a glass or ceramic finish. The face is completely sculpted by Masterji as doing a human face is not so easy on your first trial. Here comes the completed piece of art.

The next M-seal craft, which I did it on my own, was a customized order from my friend, Ms. Jaya Singh, as a decorative piece for her home. She has provided me a wooden plaque of 16/16 inches size, covered with a textured paper on top, added by her. Here it comes, a sculpted leaf with a floral design (inspired from a design from a decorative piece on a home decor website), and with a glossy acrylic finish. Jaya had added a small Ganesha on the top right corner of the piece before framing it. I was more than happy when I saw the smile on her face while holding it.

Later I have improvised upon this art by creating many miniature forms on canvas, metal holders, wooden plaques, MDF cut outs etc. Even I have created small key chains and earring.  

These key chains created by M-seal art and acrylic painting is again some of my old works. In fact, my first order from one my very close family member come friend was to create the set of 30 key chains customized for a farewell occasion in their organization.

Later I have designed few more and customized as per requirement from my friends and acquaintances.

Ceramic work  of Ganesha inside metal frame to create earring

Set of keychains with name initials

Keychain within metal frame and name initial with wooden embellishment

Keychain within metal frame and with flower embellishment

This one is one more from the M-seal art section, some of the work which I did in 2013 during my stay in Bangalore. I was also teaching then through my hobby class venture,  Creative Nest" The peacock work was done on a wooden plaque, with oil painting and a glass finish on ceramic using epoxy resin mixture.

Oil painting work is going on

And here is the final finished form.

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 :)