Friends and Faces

This is the 3rd time that my art is on display and as you can imagine I'm thrilled! If you get the time do have a look at the paintings and leave me a comments.

The exhibition is together with a friend, Smita and is called "Friends and Faces". If you happen to be in Dhaka, please drop by at the Art Gallery, Ground Floor, Standard Chartered Bank, 67 Gulshan Avenue any time between 9am and 8pm (except on holidays). Would love to see you here!

The one above is oil on canvas and is titled "Asleep"

Fostering creativity

So much hasnt changed!

Got the link to this site from an old friend Subha. There are 60 odd photographs taken between 1946-47 by American Military Personnel based in Kolkata. These have been acquired recently by the University of Pennsylvania and uploaded to their library. Thought that you guys might also enjoy them too.

Looks like a lot hasn't changed - the photographer was complaining of traffic jams - people as well as buffaloes. :D Burrabazaar and the signages. Overloading of public transportation. Makes me want to rush back home to old familiar sights! There are others of the Hooghly without the bridge. A Chowringhee square that I did not recognize and other gems. Enjoy!


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Art Rage 2.0

I stumbled across this application a few months ago. Art Rage is an drawing, painting software programme. It is super easy and great fun to use. And unlike a lot of other software it isn't disabled in any way. It does have more features in the paid version. I've been using the free (basic) version. This is my second attempt at painting. I havent yet mastered using the mouse with suitable dexterity as yet :D

Since Summer Holidays are round the corner, I thought that your kids might enjoy using this and/or that you might too. In any case, in todays digital world even art is made on a digital canvas so you'll might as well make an attempt to learn :D I had great fun making this painting in the morning and quite a lot of it was because i could just start and didnt have to go running around for a canvas, brushes, turpentine or even a rag cloth!

Hope you guys do try this out and enjoy it as much as I do. Honest, this one gets a 10 on 10 rating from me. And have you heard me rave about something like this?

One bit of exciting news is that for the first time I shall have a room to myself for my art!! I'm very excited about the "studio" and I'm hoping that it will get me to spend sometime everyday drawing, painting or just reading. Well, I can hope, cant I?

website : http://www.ambientdesign.com

Ujwala in Art College

 

For those of you who dont know.  I quit working about 5 years ago.  For the last year or so, mostly when we were stuck in a hotel, I started painting.  Since this fad lasted longer than the earlier ones, I took it further by joining Delhi College of Art, in August, this year, as a non-collegiate student.  I'm loving ever minute of it - well almost every minute :P

Picture taken this morning by one of the teachers.  We've had the principal teaching us drawing for the last 3 weeks.  You can see me in the background with a red muffler.  I'm making sure I get a view of what's going on.  Dont have the heart to push my way in so i'm famous for standing on benches, chairs, desks whatever i can get my feet on.