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An evening... a lesson learnt!

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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...

The world of colours!

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“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.....