Category: Straight from My Art
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 20 – Shiva-Parvati
My cousin Goma found this beautiful piece of art depicting Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. The sketch being on black paper and drawn mostly with white gave an amazing effect. Myself and my sister Lakshmi rose to the challenge and attempted the artwork as well. The original artist painstakingly used…
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Straight From My Art – Wooden Box Decoration
One of our dear friends’ daughter got married in the month of December. A group of friends and colleagues decided to gift her something special and wanted to put the gift into a decorative box. My husband works in the custom furniture space, hence the box was created in the…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 19 – Diwali Mandala
Around first week November, I shared this pin with my fellow family artists to celebrate Diwali which was on 12th November last year. I loved how the artwork combined a Diwali lamp and a circular mandala. Both my sisters Lakshmi and Goma finished this one well before Diwali. The delay…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 18 – The Goddess Durga
Slightly embarrassed with the timing of this post, but choosing to celebrate the art rather than dwell on how long it took me to finish this (not because it was complicated, but because I let other things take precedence over my own personal hobbies and interests). As the saying goes,…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 17 – Our First Warli Painting
Warli art is a beautiful art form practiced in tribal areas of the state of Maharashtra in India. The joyful stick figures drawn on the walls of the village homes with white clay lend so much vibrance and movement to the decor inspite of the human figures not having the…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 16 – Lord Ganesha in Madhubani Style
Last year during the Ganpati festival in September, my niece came across this ornate and intricate drawing of our beloved Lord Ganpati in all His glory. She attempted it to coincide with the festival last year and inspired all of us to try our hand as well on this. My…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 15 – Cat in Stained Glass Style
Towards the end of last year, I came across this pin of a very cute cat coloured in stained glass style. I shared it with my sisters and some of us attempted this over last year. I was the last to finish almost a year after I had floated the…
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Straight From My Art – Pelmet Decor
We shifted to a new home earlier this year. As is our modus operandi with any house shifting we’ve done over the years, we measured out all the different areas of the house, planned how the furniture layout would work out etc. The window layout between the two houses was…
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Straight From My Art – Henna Designing
As far as I can remember, I always loved applying henna on my hands. I enjoy the cool tingling on my palms that settles as the henna dries, absorbing your body heat and cooling you down. Henna also has skin healing properties and is great even for cracked heels. At…
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Straight From My Art – Heart Dreamcatcher
As I mentioned in my last post, I got a unique opportunity to send my artwork to my sister. She was going to meet up with my niece as well so I further used the chance to send my neice something that commemorated her recent engagement to the love of…
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Straight From My Art – Playful Ganpati
My sister’s favourite God is the gentle elephant-headed God who we invoke before we embark upon anything auspicious or important, be it an exam, a new job, a new house, or a wedding in the family. Just about anything really. He is the go-to God who clears obstacles in your…
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Straight from my Art – Workshop 14 – The Hummingbird
While browsing through Pinterest, I found this beautiful hummingbird zentangle that I instantly wanted to attempt. I even sketched it out months ago but real life intervened and this stayed on the back burner for a while. Meanwhile my sisters managed to attempt it and had already posted their designs…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 13 – Mango Mandala
I came across this mandala design on Instagram and fell in love with the intricate patterns. My sisters loved it too and we all decided to attempt it in our own time and pace. I started off with a sketch of the basic mandala structure: I then decided to directly…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 12 – Dancing Lady Mandala
A little late for the time of the year this usually falls in, but we came across this wonderful representation of a lady dressed up in traditional ghaghra-choli garb, dandiya in her hands, ready to dance with a group of friends and family during the nine-day period of Navratri which…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 11 – Diwali Rangoli
This one was a couple of months ago around Diwali season. I found this beautiful semi-circular Rangoli design on Pinterest and wanted to try reproducing that on paper for a change. We all are adept at drawing Rangoli designs, a legacy and tradition that we carry from our earliest recollections…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 10 – Floral Mandala
The festival of Onam in the Indian state of Kerala is celebrated with great pomp and splendour. Among the many events planned to welcome the spirit of the ancient King Maveli, floral patterns called “pookalam” adorn the entrances of homes across the state. Every year at my workplace as well…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 9 – Fish In Madhubani Style
A couple of months back, we found a beautiful fish Madhubani artwork on Pinterest. We absolutely loved the design and enthusiastically attempt it. For the first couple of weeks, we finished the outline of the design with pencil and then outlined our work with black microtip pen. We then worked…
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Straight From My Art – Decorative Planter Base
A few weeks back we bought some additions to our sound system. The packing came with two perfectly round pieces of cardboard. Just the weekend before, we had purchased some more house plants to add a touch of greenery to our home as well as reap the benefits of improved…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 8 – The Goddess Durga
Our workshops are part of a weekly family call that involves speaking to my mom and praying with her. This is usually followed by general chitchat on any topic that catches our fancy while I interject from time to time to give a drawing instruction. Oh, and we also land…
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 7 – Madhubani Birds
After the beautiful Madhubani we attempted of the decoratd elephant, I found a beautiful artwork in the same Madhubani style of two birds gazing adoringly at each other, surrounded by the foliage from a tree on Pinterest and we decided to try our hand at reproducing this one in our…