Paintings I've Made

One of my hobbies are painting. I am a self taught painter which is something I am proud of! You will see tutorials of Hindu God paintings and other paintings in this blog too. Here are the pictures I've made!

 So, this was my first ever painting. There is a pretty interesting story behind me making this painting and starting to paint. I wanted to attempt to create a Kerala Mural Art painting of Lord Krishna. I spent an hour looking for Krishna Kerala Mural Art pictures on google and then found one. The tutorial video I saw was for Ganesha's Kerala picture. As I always do for art, I went to Micheals t o get the items which included carbon paper (which I couldn't find 😕) , a ball pen (couldn't find), tracing paper (wouldn't go on the canvas), acrylic paints and a canvas'. I came home and tried tracing the layout which didn't work. I couldn't free hand draw the layout because Kerala Mural Art is too detailed! So I gave up. Then I thought of painting Ganesha! So I spent, wait for it, 10 minutes looking for, not mural, but ABSTRACT Ganesh paintings. I finally chose one, painted the background and Ganesha, and I was done! I was so proud of myself. I guess even Ganesha wanted me to start this Abstract painting journey with His Grace! Om Shreeman Maha Ganapataye Namaha!

 This is a painting of my dear Lord Krishna. This and all my paintings are free hand painted, no design, no outline, just paint! I started with a background with a mix of yellow ochre and burnt sienna. This is my favourite background mixture and I use it for all majority of my paintings. I painted a corner with prussian blue and a little bit of sap green to maintain the dark colour. I was trying to go with the theme of blue representing the night and the yellow and sienna (which is like red) representing the light and day. Like I said, I TRIED!😜 I painted Krishna with blue and yellow. I added a turban and a cute little peacock feather. I avoided adding face details and decided to put a Vaishnava Tilakam and a small line underneath it.  I finished it off with a Prabhavali, which is an arch placed behind the deity in most temples.

 Okay, can we take a moment to appreciate my decorating skills?! So, this is a painting of Krishna's hands holding a flute. It is in a black hole which is surrounded by my favourite background colour burnt sienna and yellow ochre. I kept it in our kitchen (which is why you can see a Roti keeper LOL). I usually take pictures of my paintings so to make it look fancy, I added a vase of beautiful pinkish carnations.

 This painting was made a month before Maha Shivratri (I think). It is a picture of Lord Nataraja, my favourite aspect of Shiva. I decided to use a black canvas and white painting with burnt sienna for details (mostly cause those were the only 2 colours I had left and I was too lazy to go to Micheals LOL). I painted Lord Nataraja with hair flowing out and merely a Tripundra Tilakam cantered with sienna since it looks red. I added a moon on His hair, and detailed his Panchakacha. I added some mountains that barely look like the icy Himalayan Mountains. I added a Trishula which is his weapon.  I wrote Om Namaha Shivaya in Hindi and Tamil just cause.

Finally I made dot art inspired by Aboriginal dot art. I took a black canvas, white and burnt sienna paint and dotted away. 

These are the paintings I have made so far and I can not wait to make more to show you all!!!!