AnnMina's World of Arts

वो हसीन शामें।  हम और चाय की प्याली।  समोसा और जलेबी भी सात हो तो क्या बात हो जाती। Mmm... Those pre-covid days... A dedication to those evenings... Unhurried... stress-free... Absolute bliss! Started with a pencil drawing of an outline of the image I chose from the Internet! Colours used mainly are yellow ochre and burnt siena for the samosas and tea cup, respectively. Cadmium orange, lemon yellow for the jalebis. Prussian blue mixed with scarlet will give a gray shade. That's used for the shadows of the plate and on the plate. Mix of the gray with other colours for the shadows and folds in samosa where light doesn't reach! Brushes used are size 8 and size 0 round brushes. It's supposedly a steel plate... They have lots of dark and light shades due to reflections and shadows of the items on the plate and the curves and bends... For the surrounding, it could be a table mat or a table top. I guess its a table ma...

A lazy afternoon, as I was idling around, achan (Dad) walks to me with his phone... His whatsapp open! "Why don't you paint something like this... The waves and the shadows..."  And, here I am... "Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid."              —Robert N. Rose  The sky is lightest shade of blue blending into a very light yellow around sunrise, perhaps!!! The sky is light... The sea is full of reflections... Reflection of the boat, the pink shade... The image is a challenge for me because I have yet not mastered the lights and shadows and water is yet a mystery! But let's give it a try... Started off with pencil drawing of the outline keeping it as light as possible. One good thing with water colour painting is that the pencil lines can be erased off! Instead of normal pencil we can use watercolor pencil also (Thought of that later!...

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."                   – Paul Cezanne Where there is light, there's always shadow, multi tones. Without them any picture would seen life less. It's the shades and reflections that give form to any object and breath to a picture... Creates an illusion of three dimension. Theoretically, a shadow is light blocked by an object. The object can block all or part of the light and based on the closeness to the light source the shadows change size. Shadows can be formed by one light source or more light sources. The Sun, lamps, flashlights, and fires are all sources of light. Not to complicate and as a beginner, I am concentrating on single light source.  The Will Kemp Art School 's A Beginners Guide to Light & Shadow   gives a good idea on the theory of shadows.  Almost all objects in the nature can be reduced to b...

Today afternoon amma walks into my room and sees me getting ready for some painting. Hadn't yet finalized what I was going to make! Picking up my older works she says, "Paint something from imagination!" And here it is... Something I vaguely remembered seeing in TV somewhere. Tried some shadowing effect. Here I am assuming that light source is from right hence the shadows are falling to the left and more towards the corner.. Though now that I actually think about it, I think it should have been more to the back... 🙄 For the shadow I have used dark grey from my 24 shades camel cake set.  That gives rise to an important question: Is Grey the correct colour for shadows? What are shadows? [5] drawpaintsculpt website (https://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/the-colour-of-shadows/) s ays, "It is a common misconception that a shadow is the absence of light. If there were no light in the shadow, you would not be able to see anything at all, whereas you almost always can...

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”                    – Pablo Picasso Spent the evening trying to familiarise with the shades that I have.  The excercise had started with putting the greens that was there in my colour kit on paper. Just to see what shades they actually gave.  The first column are the greens that I have (poster colour+pan). Second and third are different values of the respective hues made by adding water to the brush. For the first have used a relatively less wet brush to get the full value of the shade.  For the second dip the same brush in water once or twice and tap on the edge of tge glass to remove excess water.  For the third repeat what was done for the second column again, resulting in a much lighter value of the hue.  Fourth row was created by mixing yellow to the respective green. Here, in the same circle have tried to bring in different values. An...

Online is such wide and huge world in itself... The World Wide Web! During my childhood I had to turn the whole library upside down for even a single topic! But now, everything is just one click away. Technology!  Social networking has totally revolutionised the lives of many. From entertainment to education, everything one can find.  During my college days, I remember there was Orkut .  Used to be glued to that... The scrapbook... Hmm.. those were some days... Had so much time in my hands! Then, it disappeared... 'On June 30, 2014, Google announced that Orkut would be shutting down completely on September 30, 2014.' And then, it was an era of Facebook ... Add your friends... Chat with them... Share your pictures... Posts ... Pages... Opinions are shared... I think it's evolving still!  Pictures used to be in our albums first. Then when digital camera, smartphones came, it used to be in our memory cards... Gallery... We would share in Facebook...