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!...

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...