Shaggy pond
I started with this photograph of these Eucalyptus grove close to my house. It’s next to a curvy road and there’s nothing striking about it. Wanted to paint something in “impressionist” style where I take a rather insipid photo and make it pop with color and composition. So here it is. The photo :-] Trees…
Wood on wood
My first experiment painting with acrylic on a wooden painting panel. The inspiration is from the tall eucalyptus trees I see during my weekend hikes. The hardest part was deciding in what style to paint. Drip style, abstract, or palette knife. I started with drip style but the watercolorist in my head overtook even though…
Nostalgia
‘Cause in my head, There’s a Greyhound station, Where I send my thoughts to far-off destinations, So they may have a chance of finding a place, Where they are far more suited than here. These are lines from the song “Soul meets body” by Death Cab for Cutie. Needless to say, I find inspirations from…
Quilt of Life
When a woman is balancing work and family, her career is seldom like a hockey stick and it’s more like a quilt, where she has to work with whatever she has on her hand. This was my take away from a Women In Tech conference I attended back in 2005. At the time my first…
Take a pause to look deeper
With our busy lives and plethora of stimulation from innumerable sources its normal to skim the surface. I wanted to paint something that’s about taking a pause and looking deeper. To that effect picked this composition from my imagination. On the surface are some water lilies floating, below them are some koi fishes and they…
Hydrangeas
Or “Being Stubborn” is what call this in my head, and here’s why. I took the photo below in July 2017 while strolling along in Carmel, California. Looking back, this was a hard one for several reasons. I attempted this atleast 20 times. While most of them ended up in the recycle bin, my daughter…
What’s next?
Will share my Art&Story once a week. Perhaps they can serve as a weekly treat to feast your eyes and food for thought.
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