Ganesha Sketch

With the Ganeshotsav round the corner hope everyone is in the festive mood. I was requested to design a poster for the Marathi Mandal Switzerland for their upcoming event Ganeshotsav! 

After a lot of thinking decided to give it a personal touch. Using a pen sketched the face of the Ganesha and filled it with delicate design. I will use it as the backdrop for the poster. Here is the Gajanan sketch!

                               May Lord Ganesh shower you with success in all your Endeavours.

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!!!

PS: The poster should be available soon on public portals. :)

Jewelry box: a mural of an owl!!!

Hello folks,

Wooden box from the local art shop

                I am back and this time with some mural work. I thought of creating an ''Owl sitting on a branch of a tree'' on a jewelry box.

Today I also thought I should share two secrets with you'll.
1. What material I use to make a mural and some tricks
2. Antique finish

I used a wooden box (bought from the local art shop). And worked on the mural by using ''M-seal'' (one could also use clay). I would recommend using clay for first timers since M-seal can dry faster, leaving less time to play around :). And then I used tools to shape the owl! Ex: the back of a marker pen for the eyes. A paper tool (rounded bone spatula) for the feathers.

Once the complete mural was done, I let it dry for a day.
For the antique finish, I gave a thick black coat to cover the complete box (it is important not to leave any crevice unpainted at this stage).

Finally I gave a coat of gold to the entire box except for the mural. For the mural, I gently brushed the gold to give an antique effect. Again it is important NOT to fill the crevices this time and leave some black spaces.

Voila an antique finish!! This is how it looked at the end.

This was gifted to a friend on her birthday! I hear she loves it and already has her best jewelry sitting in it.
Hope you get hands on some clay and try your first mural.
Good luck!

I have some special orders already! So keep an eye for some more soon :)

Art class contd..

Some more of the confident strokes from my little kiddo!

    

Art class for kids (age group 5-7)

Hello folks! With the increasing amount of responsibility at work it is really hard to find time for art. Thus, I decided to dedicate some time to my passion by sharing it with kids (age group of 5-7).
I have had two classes of the same and here are some images of the art done by the kids.

Teaching kids is difficult since you have to have patience and a knack of making things easy and interesting. And I must admit that the web has been a boon. I would really like to thank ABC to drawing.


I really look forward to Monday evenings now just so that I can do something I love and enjoy.
Hope to share more stuff in the coming weeks.