Self-potrait (water color)

          Hey friends, one day when I was sitting and thinking about my journey of learning art, I suddenly realized that I have only one year left in my art school. Come 2014 and I will pass out from my art school and secure a senior diploma in art for myself. During all these days, I learned various styles and handled various medium of self-expression. I made a variety of paintings and sketches but always felt something was missing. Oh yes, I never made my portrait of myself.                                                                                                                                                                                               

          Sitting in front of the mirror to make a self-portrait was not my cup of tea. Therefore, I decided to click a snap and use it as a reference for my painting. I had also heard about CMYK technique, which I decided to employ here.

         

          Therefore, I started by making an outline sketch and layering it with chrome yellow, carmine, Prussian blue and ivory black and in less than ten minutes, here is what I got:

                                                                                                                            

Sand art

Recently, I visited Puri. It is a beautiful coastal city in Odisha. Hindus consider it as one of the four "Dhams"; the other three being - Badrinath, Rameshwaram and Dwarika. It is also famous for sand art and it's patron artist, Sudarshan Patnayak.

While strolling along the Golden Beach, we met Mr. Alok, a sand artist. In the picture, you can see him making the sculpture of Lord Shiva from the sand. He was so good that we got inspired.

I and my sister made many things but a castle and a sculpture of Lord Ganesha turned out to be the most beautiful one.
Making a sand art is real fun! All you need is a little imagination. You need to remember only two things - first the sand should be moist for better sticking. Secondly, the beach is home to innumerous crabs that come out from the sand time to time. So be careful while making sand art.

So next time when you are on the beach , make a sand art and send it's picture to me and tell me whether you enjoyed it or not.