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!

bottle murmurs

Once upon a time, in the corner of my room, a juice bottle was telling stories to the badam milk bottle. The rocks overheard it and told it to the lampshade. Lampshade to the bulb, and the bulb to the light and the light to the dark...and it passed on.

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!!!!

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.

flying bottle

One great idea from Artsomniac to people who are looking for dirt cheap home decor. This is a simple green wine bottle and the side feather of a peacock combined together... A series of green bottles in different patterns can be a wonderful theme way to decorate empty spaces in a thematic yet cheap way!


Artsomniac found this feather in the Osmania University campus during one of her morning walks... Artsomniac is waiting for more green bottles in her aqua home where she can keep all the peacock feathers of the past. MJ, are you listening? Take the hint! he he!!!