melancholy

Study Sketches, fooling around in my paint.

Learning to control a the touchpad.... The stroke doesn't actually fall where the mind wants it to fall...

cock-a-doodle-doo

This is a scene recreated in memory of a home scene. Duh, nostalgia! We had, back at home, a hen who never used to come back to its shelter. Instead, a nearby rubber tree was her favourite hang out. Artsomniac used to wonder how the hen could sleep on top of a tree!!

Here, the lovely wooden toys were gifts 

artsomniac bought for her lovely niece in chennai, but eventually forgot to pack in her hurry. Sigh sigh! such a lousy aunt! The base of the tree is a bottle, to get the bottle in this form, buy jute thread and braid them and wind them on the bottle. Mix red thread for special effects. In artsomniac's case, she ran out of jute, so used the red to cover up. It turned out well. Art by accident. Ha! Twig is any twig. But find a nice shape. There, country scene from Kerala. Excuse the gentle man meditating under the tree. Artsomniac is quite fond of him, and by now you have understood that he is her favourite prop which she puts in all possible frames :-) The sneak preview of the mural buddha is her unfinished work! Ignore that till the next century when she finish it!

Summer Goddess Pajamas

 

Since they deported Hussain, there was a vacancy to paint goddesses, naked, semi- naked or clothed.

Hence, Artsomniac's  urgency to rush to the Art Scene.

Summer Special release:   Super Loose Goddess Painted Pajamas. 

Hand Painted Parvathi and Ganesha.

Black Fabric Paint on White Cotton Cloth. 

Pajamas : Cheapest Canvas.

fabric paint:  cheapest acrylic.

Wear your art, walk around, don't book a gallery, save some money. 

Join the 'broke artist's cloth club'. 

Annie's nameboard

White correction ink on black chart paper

Renu

Fingers, Tempera and Black Chart paper. 

Dated some time in 2009

Dragonfly days

Artsomniac went to take the picture of the dragonfly she did for annie as part of an earlier glass painting/bottle painting madness series. Annie at first refused to take her picture, but let her take the picture of the bottle. Sad, artsomniac has not met even one dragon fly since she landed in the Software Heaven. Mallu land had lots of them.

Anni has tabla in her room, you see! Ustad Annie Hussain!!!!

tree of life, experiments on a pepe tee

It's been really long since Artsomniac posted something. This is something she did for Vidya, who calls herself the '200% girl'. Vidya had asked artsomniac to do something on her pink pepe tee, which was a challenge since she had no clue what to do on a pink tee...I mean pink, such a stereotype sorority colour! Her effort was to break the stereotype and she gave her a slightly modified warli tree of life. Looks like the 200% girl is happy. Artsomniac had her share of chocolate. 

The warli paintings generally comes in brown and white hues. Pink was a pleasant change. 

The little doggie who watches the village. 

And here comes the drummer whose beat is the pulse of the village.... I liked how he bends according to the curve of the pepe jeans script. Artsomniac managed to find the exact colour for the drummer. I think the pepe company should hire Artsomniac for their Indian Version of tees...ho ho!!! 

Fabric paint on teeshirt. 

tree of life

Artsomniac went out yesterday and treated herself with a new set of water colors. She is so much in love with colorama colors. A welcome change from camel.

One of the first attempts in water colour... Miles to go before it becomes neat and perfect...howeva...She liked working with water colors.

This picture is done on a sheet of printed paper teared from an old magazine. Old magazines have super fine craft paper, you know.. And you should never really mind some bits of writing underneath the art work.After all, if you feel that the magazine is a pure waste of trees, this is one best way of recycling...paint a tree on it and give it to a friend...Artsomniac loved the experience of doing it last night...

Oil Travalogue

My first oil painting, whatsoevea... This unfinished painting and the one painting currently hanging at home are my only oil paintings so far. Did not find the medium quite comfortable due to many reasons...of which the higher price of paints and canvas is the most prominent one. Let's see, may be later...lay..ter...

My Experiments with charcoal and jesus christ

Painted Face!

So artsomniac was digging the old photographs of yesteryear in her university and found this photograph of a facepainting competition she won last year...It was a theme competition, the theme was Change. She did a change in humans, change in seasons metaphor on a single face of Anju.

The design is inspired by the elaborate face paintings done for art forms from kerala like theyyam and kathakali.

A shot while the work was in progress...


face 1, face 2


face 3, face 4

...

I will never be able to see this again...
A tree...Bits of poetry...
Natraj Pencil.
our handwritings....
But we will have better walls, better pictures...
once upon a time..
Right, MJ?

mermaid bottle

Posting pictures of the mermaid bottle, the inspiration for the 'metabottle' in the writing board. The lemon smirnoff bottle was a giveaway from medusa, sometime last year. Inspiration for the mermaid idea was the unique twisted shape of the bottle...unlike the regular smirnoff bottles. Glass Paints and black glass liner were used. Sketching was free hand. Filled blue colour and water inside the bottle to give it a better effect.

purple wave shrug/muff

I have been working on this purple wave shrug/muff for the last two days. Today, it is complete. This muff can be doubled as a shrug as well; a weird shrug for that matter. Pretty, anyways.
Raw materials: 1) The wool material is leftover blanket piece after ria made a shawl from it. 2) purple buttons: general bazaar, button shop, rs 4 each. 3) purple wool, hobby shop, general bazaar.
Method: Ripped both sides of the cloth to get the effect. Did the design in running stitch, the wave design came as a free hand one; placed buttons in 10 different places.
Elika, my knit master was happy to model for me. Thanks eliboo!

The shrug/muff


The details







The button hole.


The single side shrug style.




the muff wrap style



the double side shrug style


The regular muff style