Monday, November 12, 2012

Happy Chhoti Diwali

Hi guys, today is Chhoti Diwali, or Small Diwali..It is the day just before the actual Diwali day and a lot of people do Puja (worship, prayer) today also.

Here is the Rangoli I made on paper:

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This is the simplest thing i could come up with, since it was my first time. Simple paper, few sketch pens and anyone can make it! In love

And here’s the Diya I made:

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All the blue hyperlinked text opens a new window that explains more about each term for anyone who is interested.

Happy Chhoti Diwali to All!! Smile

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Diwali is Almost Here!

Hi guys, as some of you may know, Diwali is a big festival for us, Indians (Hindus) and it is this Tuesday! Open-mouthed smile

Here is a little something i did last Diwali…Follow me for all the updates from this Diwali!!

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Here is Lord Ganesha, in the process of being painted by me.
For reference, it was of the colour of the following picture, made of mud by the local potters of India.

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And here is the FINISHED product!

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Happy Diwali to All!!… Peace, Love, Light and Joy to Everyone.

Stay tuned for more updates of Diwali..This is the Diwali week yeah! Open-mouthed smile

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Creating an Illusion.. Part2: The Glass One

 

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Here is the Glass version of my painting of two sisters, collecting pebbles along a beach.
You can check out the Watercolour version here.

Am sharing it with all of you and especially with my wonderful artist friends at Sunday Sketches.

You can comment and tell me which one you like better or if you didn’t like any or if you’d like me to recreate it with some changes and on a different medium. All welcome! ^_^

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Creating An Illusion

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My coming week is pretty tight, full of work, homework, tests and with lots of stuff on my mind. But right now, am creating an illusion in my mind that am relaxed.

I saw the picture above somewhere and I immediately related it to my life, the two girls in the picture being my sister and I, relaxing and collecting pebbles, where yellow pebbles create an illusion of being gold, and it does feel like collecting gold when you are happy, relaxed and doing it with the ones you love and cherish having the most in your life.

So, I recreated it using water colours. Hope some of you at SS will like it. Smile

I also did it on glass, so maybe next Sunday I will post that..Stay tuned….

Monday, August 13, 2012

This Happens Only in India

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We worship Cow as our mother and yet make her carry our burden.

Just a thought, sharing with Sunday Sketches.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Some Flowers and A Get-Well Soon

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This is a get-well-soon post for Alexandra, in the form of Sunday Sketches.

Get Well Soon!! ^_^

visit the above hyperlink and wish her for yourself!

Friday, July 20, 2012

IT’S A CELEBRATION!

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These two are getting ready for a party to celebrate the third birthday of Pop Art Minis. Join in the celebration and go home with awesome return gifts!!!

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Can You Guess What He Said?

 

This is something i drew back in school, when i was a little girl..not so little but the time when they tell you to fill your drawing with all the wonderful colours you can!

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This little guy in Blue said something in this little red-riding-bow’s ear which surprised her and widened her big blue eyes! Can you guess what he said?

Trying something for the first time here – posting this as an entry for both Sunday Sketches and Blue Monday. Hoping audiences from both the blogs will enjoy this post! ^_^

Keep Smiling!

Monday, July 9, 2012

Blue Blue, All Headings Blue!

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Was just reading some Biology and all the Headings and Sub-Headings were in Blue! ^_^

My first attempt at Blue Monday.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Feeling Jokerish?

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It was late night and i was feeling inspired by The Dark Knight! Only the character inspiring me was The Joker! … with a couple of Pencils and a drawing Pad..here is my version of feeling jokerish for The Sunday Sketches.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A Featherless Bird

One fine Friday, a life was born,

Through hundreds of days, and

With plenty of love, was raised

To become what I was then.

 

Like a bird, ready to take off

Into the world, was let

Into the arms of the others,

They enjoyed my music,

 

As a song sung by the nightingale,

Then one by one, slowly,

Tore me apart, like the precious

Feathers of a peacock.

 

Torn, empty, lifeless, alone I sit,

I look inside of me, and enquire,

“Is there anybody there?”

And this is what I am now.

 

# I love reading random poetry, but only Carry On Tuesday motivates me to take some time out and write some of my own in this fast paced world. Cheers to fellow writers and poets!

Monday, June 25, 2012

Go Fly Birdie!!!

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For all the colours that filled my life in school time..Reminisce those lovely days! A blast from the past for all my Sunday Sketches.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever.

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Sorry for the dark picture, bad lighting… Anyway recently i got back to the simplest joys of life, like pencil sketching and watercolours. This one here is in watercolours. Hope someone from Sunday Sketches will like it, i undoubtedly do. Smile

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Like a Star...

Stars and Butterflies...
Sugar and Spice...
Things good & bad...
'Cause that is life.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Shocking Facts!

Very weird and shocking things I came across lately:

1. The key factor driving gender inequality (in India) is the preference towards males. This is because males are deemed to be more useful than females.

No kidding, I actually read this on Wikipedia.

Males are more USEFUL? I mean that’s the only reason why people prefer males. Strange because machines are supposed to be useful, people are supposed to be precious, no matter they be males or females.

 

2.  The Thomas Reuters Foundation survey says that India is the fourth most dangerous place in the world for women to live in.

You can read further here.

And then they say its the clothes, like everybody is not wearing the same kind of clothes across the universe. And countries like Afghanistan & Pakistan that have their women covered from head to toe rank one and three respectively.

 

3. Humans are eating their ancestors!

                

This I saw on TLC (the channel), but just to justify its not just made up, check it out here.

It’s not going to be long before humans start eating each other, I mean if they can eat chimpanzees and gorillaz, who knows what’s next. Such a shame!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

I never believed that school was something special..until..it was Over.

While reading a paragraph about Deforestation and Climate Change which mentioned again and again the cutting of trees to make wood and rubber etc, mainly the word wood again and again i recalled school days, somehow. Then i recalled the occasional basketball (rubber) i played in school on the free days we were given in 10th when the BOARDS were approaching. Ideally we were supposed to sit at home and study, but I think we had studied enough, my sister and I, or so our teachers said. We went to school on those free days and just played, especially if that day had a PT period.

That took me back to one particular year where, in 9th or 10th, the girls of our class got an absurd idea to play Football, now our school used to make us learn the basics of every sport, being an army school and all, but to carry it forward is totally your initiative because it didn't have many teams for many sports. So the girls of our class decided to play Football, strangely those were the monsoon days! Now some people take me to be very ordered and *sophisticated* (yes someone used this word!) but let me tell you, playing football without any rules in monsoon was neither ordered nor sophisticated, i mean we got all our white skirts brown and soaked and our white socks and shoes too. But one thing it definitely was, it was real fun!
Oh! i remember, we started playing football because we couldn't play Tennis anymore 'cause the court was all wet and the ball wouldn't bounce and all. Yea! It was a nice change to play football. And trust me it's coming from a girl who is zero percent 'sporty'!

This also takes me back to or should i say farther to days when i used to doze off in class. Two things can never be as much fun in college as they were in school:
1. Bunking.
2. Sleeping in class.
In college, everyone bunks and it's like you're allowed to do it, hence it loses all its charm. Not to mention there is no assembly you can bunk. And sleeping in class, well that's an activity and don't really remember how to do because if am sleepy i'd rather just miss the class and be in bed and live in my dreams rather than attending class and wandering off to a dreamy woodland, a woodland not a forest but the amazing warm wooden desk that my college lacks.

First you try to stay awake, then you try to keep your eyes open as long as you possibly can, then you just cup your hands and put your chin in and pray that the teacher doesn't make eye contact, then when everything fails you put your head down on that desk which initially has a different temperature than yours but soon becomes cosy. At first you listen to the weird sounds that come through it and imagine your ear on a railway track hearing a train approaching but slowly and gradually that train of thought leads you to a wonderland where you can just relax, the weather becomes just fine, the noises shut off and if you are lucky you step into an amazing world of beautiful dreams. 

This happened to me all the time in Mogambo's (our Physic's teacher) class, until ofcourse i started bunking on the false pretext of Farewell Preparation, though i was kind of involved in it... Anyway, the beautiful slumber that you enjoy in Mogambo's class is one of it's kind. With his strong baritone working as a gentle lullaby and the *weather* coming and touching your exposed cheek as the other heats up next to the warm wooden bench..awesome.

Oh and the most amazing thing was to run each day after school was over and before the buses took off to get that one bar of lick-lolly when you knew that by that time in those summer days no-one would have any water left in their bottles, if they carried one that is.
Monsoon and winters in school were again a story by themselves. Stay tuned for them, they might be Coming Soon.. :)

PS. Mogambo Sir used to call the AIR, weather hence the above usage.