AnnMina's World of Arts

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."                  – Twyla Tharp A glimpse of my meagre workspace. Making the most of my small room 😊 and small table! The Work Table I started off this journey, the present one, from 14th of April and today is 30th of May. More than a month! I started with my older stuffs but have added on a few items newly.  The Colors I already had camlin 12 shades watercolor tubes and 6 shades camel poster colors and another 12 shades faber castle poster colors.  Some of them dried and some still active. In the poster colour, I just added some water and they were good to go. I also had 24 shades Camlin King watercolor pencils.  Recently bought Camel watercolor cakes 24 shades. I didn't want to spend much and I wanted a 24 shades set. So went for this. Got it under 200 along with oil pastels, 12 shades color pencils, crayons and glitter... ...

Guess what I found in my classmates drawing book 😊 As the book says, always keep your colour wheel with you to ensure best results.👍 Now that we have the color wheel, let's see what else we need before we get started or rather the resources! "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."                        – Twyla Tharp Of course the first thing for watercolor painting would be the  watercolors itself! WATERCOLOR Watercolors are made from particles of pigment bound together by an adhesive agent such as gum arabic. Many brands are available in the market and almost all have both student's quality and artist's quality watercolors with the difference in the Pigment concentration. Student's quality are less expensive but not as finely ground as artist's quality. And artist's quality tend to be more intense and permanent than student's quality paints. Since I am just in the process of learning I didn'...

Start of the Journey into the world of water colors First step should always be gaining knowledge on colours. A colour wheel helps us in knowing 1. Combining which colours will give our desired shade 2. Which colours will go with which colours. 3. Which colours to avoid. 4. How to place the colours in our design 5. The relationships, the harmony between the colours etc... "It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour."              -- Hubert de Givenchy I have done many paintings without knowing anything about color theory and have found myself many a times scratching out my painting because it felt too sore for the eyes or too much plain... And many a times making a parody of the image that I was trying to replicate! Mostly because different types of watercolours we use the shades they provide are different. If we go for those boxes with paint cakes... They give an absolute different shade from those...

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” ― Kahlil Gibran Colours... I simply love colours. I have always loved colours. The set of bangles that I have, the collection of earrings... and those nail colors... (oh i love nail art as well but covid19 has put a break on that... keep my nails short and no paint!) And even the vivado simulations and ILAs... Always full of colours! (Vivado is just a software tool I use in office, never mind!). Well, who doesn't love colors? The indefinite hues in an evening sky... So mesmerizing! My dream... To capture them in a canvas. Some day... One day. Now... today... I am just learning!  "If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad.” – Andrew Wyeth Starting from where I had stopped... Paused should be the word! A long pause! Watercolor tubes half used... Poster colors dried up... Time to awaken them... Time to learn water colour painting .. colours.....

Into the world of arts, I should say, revisiting the world of arts! My father draws beautifully, writes wonderfully, his handwriting is amazing and I, his daughter, is absolutely grateful in getting a little bit of those genes in me. I have heard that talents skip a generation. So I guess, my kids would be so talented!!! Yeah, right! Another lockdown... A few hours at my disposal! Last lockdown I was busy making jewellery... Earrings, necklaces, bracelet. I have ran out of ideas and as I have so many by now I don't feel like making any as of now! This lockdown was spent mostly cleaning and setting up rooms, wardrobe!! So, one grand and unusual day, a few hours spent browsing and cleaning my room, I stumbled across an old bag bringing back memories of some good old days! When I had first come to Bangalore.. a few months into my new job, a friend of mine asked me if I could accompany her in joining a class on visual arts. I loved drawing (thanks to my father, of course) so I immediat...