Sankey Tank painting

I visited the Sankey Tank of Bengaluru for the first time when an art show was arranged by 'Namma Bangaluru'. I was given a stall to display my paintings. As most of my paintings are inspired by the 'Lal Bagh' of Bengaluru, I had displayed just them.

Most of the visitors to the show were locals who were living in and around Sankey Tank, and one of them commented ' Your paintings are mostly of 'Lal Bagh'. Why not paintings of Sankey Tank?'

This was already in my mind when I saw the beautiful surroundings of this artificial Lake created during the British Raj in 1882, and even named after Col Sankey who built it to cater to the water requirement of Bengaluru.

I clicked many photos and decided to use them as reference to create a body of works called 'Sankey Tank'.

Here is the first one of them, which I decided to paint abstractly reminding me of

 the colorful and festive time I had there during the show.

Sankey Tank 1
acrylic painting on canvas
Size 17x23 inches

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Yellow Sensation - painting

Painting a rose is a very challenging experience for me. The rose brings along with it - the mood, the scent, a visual treat and a wonderful sensation of happiness.

Yellow Sensation

acrylic painting on canvas panel

size - 8x10 inches

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Mangoes and Bananas - Fruit Bowl - Still Life Painting

Just easing up this Summer with delicious mangoes - both in the dining room as well as on canvas.

The market is flooded with so many varieties of Mangoes this year. This tempted me to go ahead and paint a Still Life Painting of a fruit bowl with Raspuri Mangoes and Elakki Bale bananas.





Mangoes and Bananas
acrylic painting on canvas board
size: 7x5 inches

Painting of Sridevi - Sridevi shares my painting of her - on ETV Telugu channel

Sricevi has been an actor par excellence. Being an ardent fan of her, I had done a painting of her which seems to have somehow come to her notice- thanks to the internet. I felt humbled and rewarded when I saw her share an image of that painting on ETV Telugu as one of her 3 favorite paintings. 
I had written about it in this blog 4 years back in 2014, and am sharing it again in memory of my favorite actor Sridevi. 

It goes like this ---




I feel very elated and happy to share the ETV Telugu episode of 'Soundarya Lahiri' show wherein Actor Sridevi shares fer favourite 3 paintings. One amongst them is a  painting I did of her inspired by the very popular scene in the movie Mr. India.The scene shows a song number called 'I Love You' in which Sridevi  performs a scintillating dance wearing a translucent blue saree which has left many a heart fluttering. The other 2 paintings she has shared being - one of her own creation, and another done by actor Salman Khan which was presented to her. Wow!!! To be one amongst them!

Although my name is not mentioned anywhere (because they don't know me) it is heartwarming to know that  Actor Sridevi has liked it enough to share it on the popular ETV Telugu channel. During the show, my painting is shown a second time, when popular director Ram Gopal Varma comments on my painting saying that he likes the 'photo of the girl better' -  he thought my painting was a photo !!!! :))

A short clip of the program Soundarya Lahiri where actor Sridevi shares my painting on ETV Telugu channel

To watch the whole episode copy and pastie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YDrLJ8RCPg       in your browser and watch this clip from 17.5 mn onwards. 

Sridevi

acrylic painting on canvas

size: 16x12 inches

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