The Taj Mahal

It has been some time since I posted on my blog. One reason being that I did not have an internet connection for a long time.  I hope to start posting regularly now, and paint a lot too.

The Taj Mahal may be the most photographed architectural wonder of India.  Unfortunately I still have not had the opportunity to visit Agra and see this absolutely wonderful marble construction in true life.  I have seen many wonderful photographs of the 'Taj Mahal' and wondered how it would look in real life.   Even more beautiful I am sure.

Nevertheless, it did not stop me from painting this wonder of the world, using photographic reference clicked by my daughter for me to paint.

Taj Mahal

acrylic painting on canvas paper

size:  9x13 inches

Home Makers

I have been busy lately painting and getting prepared for my upcoming show in February. Hence the long intervals between posts. Just once a month nowadays.

Here is a glimpse of what you can expect at my upcoming show. It is all about Indian people and their body language that I see everyday around me. This show will also give everybody a glimpse today's India.

'Home Makers' is a painting of three Indian women literally building homes. You can see in this painting, two women in sarees and a young girl wearing a lehenga and blouse carrying bricks. It happens only in India, as they say. This is an acrylic painting of size 18.5"x15".

For a framed view of this painting, click HERE.

Painting of the Hampi Pillars-a traditional Indian scene

'Pillars of Hampi' is an oil painting of the pillars of the traditional great Hampi Temple. The size of this painting is 12"x16".

This painting is a part of the series called the 'Essence of India', in which I am painting the various typical traditional scenes of India.

In this painting the evening sun lights up the pillars of Hampi and also the coconut trees that border the pillars above them like a crown.

click HERE for a framed view of this painting.

TEMPLE GOPURAM

WISHING ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. Lets start the New Year 2008 with blessings from the Almighty.

The first painting of the New Year 2008 is TEMPLE GOPURAM a painting of classic South Indian Architecture. This is an oil painitng of size- 16"x12".

This painting is a ground level view of the 'Chamundeeshwari Temple Gopuram' Mysore. Done in an impressionist style, I have used colors for the painting, although the original gopuram has a natural earthen finish and is not painted.

Wet Traffic

Wet Traffic - is an acrylic painting on canvas of size 24"x30". This is a view of traffic as seen from the rear windscreen of a car while driving on a flyover road at high speed (Texas traffic). The roads were rain kissed and the sky still heavily clouded waiting to shed more rain. All this and the glare of the headllights of the cars behind us led me to try this scene on canvas.

THE PIT

The Pit-1, and The Pit-2 are acrylic paintings on canvas of size 21"x27".

I was fascinated by this pit where some bamboo sticks and some vessels and sacks were stored -because of the play of sunlight. A rather uninteresting subject, but I couldn't resist trying it out on canvas. I did 2 paintngs under 2 different angles of sunlight. You can see them both here.