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Morning Noon and Night

2012-01-23T02:11:00.000-08:00

What if you are able to pursue your hobby each day? Do you feel Happy every day? Yes, I do. Then do it without second thought.

Well, here is my new release for 2012 from the time out of busy schedules, on this weekend...

This painting is Oil on canvas and as the title sounds I have captured it while I painted through out the day during Morning, Noon & Night! Does it look similar to one of MF Hussains murals? ;)

Oil Painting for Kids

2012-01-13T04:06:00.000-08:00

There is no hard and fast rule for starting teach kid with the oil painting strokes.

On the other hand this is a medium that makes the children even more comfortable than the water colors. They enjoy the strokes, smell of colors, imagination etc...

RIP Steve

2011-10-05T23:10:00.000-07:00

Steve Jobs will be remembered long after we are gone from this world. I hope he lived a life he was proud of. I know he changed mankind's future for the better & that is always a good thing. Here is Steve addressing Standford graduates with some of the most pivotal points in his life, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

Life of Steve Jobs...

Born in San Francisco in Feb 1955 to university students Joanne Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah Jandali
Adopted as a baby by a Californian working class couple
Had a summer job at Hewlett-Packard while at school - later worked at Atari
Dropped out of college after six months and went travelling in India, where he became a Buddhist
Launched Apple with school friend Steve Wozniak in 1976 and the first Apple computer the same year
Left Apple amid disputes in 1985 but returned in 1996 and became CEO in 1997
Bought Pixar animation company in 1986 for $10m
Married in a Buddhist ceremony in 1991 - has three children with his wife and a daughter from a previous relationship
Had a personal wealth estimated at $8.3bn (£5.4bn) in 2010
Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, and after three periods of sickness leave, resigns as Apple CEO in August 2011

Here is a video of Steve Jobs taken when he introduced Mac in Jan 1984...

Google doodles Ananth Pai's B'Day

2011-09-17T02:47:00.000-07:00

Amar Chitra Katha creator Anant Pai's 82nd birthday is celebrated today. This is doodled by Google on its Search Page.

Uncle Pai is known to millions of young readers, surrounded by Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle comic books.
Anant Pai was born on September 17, 1929 at Karkala, Karnataka. A scientist by education, but an entertainer by vocation Uncle Pai initiated a comic revolution in India.
Google doodles have gained immense popularity over the past few years and the Google team has put out commemorative doodles on events ranging from news events, civic milestones, birthdays, death anniversaries and important dates in history.
Google estimates it has created more than 900 doodles since 1998, with 270 of them running in 2010 and more than 150 in 2011.

Amit Sood - Art Museums Interface by Google

2011-07-18T17:25:00.000-07:00

Amit Sood at Google had built an interface with a great idea of collaborating the Art work of the greatest painters of the world. Moreover this interface allows users to create their own. Good one in the video below he talks about Giga Pixel Techonilogy with a demo on a painting with a 10billion pixel painting at Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY.

The End of MF Husain

2011-06-09T22:56:00.001-07:00

Legendary Painter - MF Husain

Famous celebrated painter, Maqbool Fida Husain is an eminent personality known for his unique Art Strokes took his last breath in this world on Thursday, 9th June 2011, but his Art work lives for ever and within everyone.

He became a noted artist only after his 54 years of age and got exiled from India. He studied in JJ School of Art, in Delhi. Here are news images where you can learn more about M.F. Husain.

Agreed that Dr. Batra is one of the Greedy Homepathy clinics in India, I stumbledupon one of MF Hussain's paintings in the clinic. Here is it...

Hussain wrote something on the painting - you can see - it reads "Mukesh you are doing great work to keep our people healthy".

Comic Art Paintings from Amarchitrakatha

2011-02-25T21:47:00.000-08:00

Uncle Pai will continue to rule our hearts - Amar Chitra Katha stories (through comic books on history, mythology and folklore) are induced into the younger generations and it will continue to do so.

Pai's other works include a number of books on personality development for children and teenagers, and a series of audio book versions of Amar Chitra Katha stories, where he plays the role of narrator-storyteller. Amar Chitra Katha was launched at a time when Indian society was slowly moving away from the traditional joint family system, because of (among other things) socio-economic constraints and urbanization.

In a joint family system, grandparents would regale the children of the household with tales from folklore and the epics, and the Amar Chitra Katha series served to fill the void left by grandparents in the smaller nuclear families in urban areas. The choice of English as the primary language led it to reach the majority of children who studied in English medium schools.

Anant Pai launched Amar Chitra Katha in 1967, which retold traditional Indian folk and mythological stories, the series sold over a 100 million copies since it's inception. This was followed up by another popular comic series titled Tinkle in 1980. Anant Pai was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award recently at India's first ever Comic Convention held in New Delhi. The man behind the popular comic series Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle.

Born in Karkala, Karnataka to Venkataraya and Susheela Pai, Pai lost his parents at the age of two. At the age of twelve, he came to Mumbai, where he studied in Orient School, Mahim. He studied chemistry, physics and chemical technology at the University of Bombay Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT now UICT) and was a dual degree holder from the University of Bombay.

Anant Pai, popularly known as Uncle Pai, is a renowned educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director.

The man behind this popular comic series Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle – Anant Pai more fondly known as Uncle Pai - passed away in Mumbai. 81 year old Pai had been admitted to the hospital after he fell from a staircase last week, he reportedly suffered from a massive heart attack.

Impressionists and Impressionism

2010-11-01T00:15:00.000-07:00

A school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light.

I have tried this impression painting that includes hobby colors, brushes, Palms & Fingers (of my family) mixed-up. It took 1 hr long on my workbook. However, it was the result of my imagination that made me do this. I was thinking about doing this for quite sometime now and we can do it only when we find time for our passion.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on the accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

Vincent Van Gogh a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist and was a great impressionist and here is one of his painting.

Water Colors and Brushes

2010-06-26T22:07:00.000-07:00

Hi my dear blog visitors, after long time I am contributing a post here.

It is all because of my new assignment that recently took off in the Embedded domain. I work to promote Brand identity through Internet as a medium.

Well, this post is dedicated to Kim from UK. Her recent painting reveals that she liked Mambakkam Village picturesque.

The art of the house is where our ancestors lived their lives happily. This Picture shows a fabulous imagination of Kim. Thanks Kim!

Kim described the way she participated in a group activity recently. Yes! it is a group of Art enthusiasts in UK gets involved in activities like learning each others skills in the group like sketching, painting with water colors, using different mediums developing imaginary skills on potraits, picturesque etc.

Eventually, this group ends up with a large collection of paintings. Then they organize an Art Gallery in their vicinity. After finishing the exhibition they will distribute income to the artists and retain a part of money collected. Give away a percentage of the amount that a painting fetch to the artist who deserves it and the rest goes to the group's treasure.

However, this is a great IDEA for Artists who are good in their own artistic skills. This idea of social event applies not only for Arts/Fine Arts but also for Music, Dance or anyother form of art.

Enjoy reading!

Painting Ganesha - Oil on Canvas

2010-03-16T00:46:00.001-07:00

Happy Telugu New Year - Ugadi Celebrations marked with my new Oil on Canvas Painting - Ganesha.
This is my first trial using Oil paints and a Canvas board. The theme is to potray "curves" with canvas painting and recently I saw a painting in a gallery where it was a similar kind.

It took 3 days because Oil paintings need to dry after every color you apply. Otherwise, it spoils the whole painting.

Check it out and comment on it if you have time.

Madhubani Paintings

2010-02-01T16:12:00.000-08:00

Out of different Indian painting styles like Tanjore, Tribal, Patachitra, Moughal, Kangra Miniature and Contemporary Paintings, Madhubani paintings are unique ones with the amount of saturation of patterns with colors (mostly, RGB) that an artist gets onto the home made sheets.
Madhubani Art Unfolded:
The origins of Madhubani painting or Mithila Painting are shrouded in antiquity. Tradition states that this style of painting originated at the time of the Ramayana, when King Janak commissioned artists to do paintings at the time of marriage of his daughter, Sita, to Lord Ram.

Madhubani painting has been done traditionally by the women of villages around the present town of Madhubani (means forests of honey) and other areas of Mithila. The painting was traditionally done on freshly plastered mud wall of huts, but now it is also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas.

Handmade paper that an artist uses is a sheet of paper made of natural ingredients including Kohabar (Cow Dung). Whereas, the colors are from the petals of Flowers.

Madhubani paintings mostly depict mythological characters, devotional events, plants like tulasi and nature like sun, moon and religious planets. Some of the commonly painted themes are:Hindu deities are Lord Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi, and Sarasw

From Friday, 1st Feb till Tuesday all the roads in Chennai lead towards an exhibition at Valluvarkottam. There was a display of handicrafts of the artists and manufacturers from all over the country. Among all other stalls I fell in love with the patterns of Madhubani paintings at the stall 45-50 and wish to make a visit to Madhubani District in Bihar, once in my lifetime.

Madras Terrace House

2010-01-16T13:12:00.000-08:00

The Madras Terrace House is an influential space for artistic performance and experience. There are 3 young artists who indeed possess famous artistic skills are from Chennai will paint a 20ft canvas about the city they grew up in, and the city that now influences their work. Vadais & autos, Filter coffee & kakas.

This Artistic event in Chennai is between 14th Jan 09 to 17th Jan 09. So please hurry and I bet it is worth attending.

Facts that you want to know about the place before you make a visit:

This Terrace house was empty for almost 10 years, and was in a crumbling state of disrepair when she first laid eyes on the place. But she fell in love. Not one to waste any time, Lalchand obtained the place and opened TMTH a month ago. In the span of that one month, TMTH has hosted eight events already, including art shows, book discussions, film screenings and music concerts. Interestingly, this Terrace House also has a Tea Kadai (Stall).

Further more, the beams in the structure are unique, as are the bricks which keep the rooms cool. Infact, these type of constructions can be see in Railway houses. Each room has more than one door, and they open out into each other, giving the impression of a house that’s larger than it actually is.

Do Check the Art Gallery!

Famous Crop-Art in Japan

2009-12-27T07:54:00.001-08:00

This stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Closer to the image, the careful placement of thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen.
Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.

As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colours created by using different varieties, in the village of Inakadate in Japan.

Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies, created by precision planting and months of planning between villagers and farmers in Inkadate.

The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year
the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall.

Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa, Japan. And over the past few years, other villages have joined in with the plant designs.

Various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan this year,
including designs of deer dancers.

More than 150,000 vistors come to Inakadate, where just 8,700 people live, every summer to see the extraordinary murals.

The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Toyko, where the tradition began in 1993.

Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields.

Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.

The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety to create the coloured patterns between planting and harvesting in September.

The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square metres of paddy fields. From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.

Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of meetings of the village committee. The different varieties of rice plant grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.

In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.

But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention. In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.

A year later, organisers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

Here's something important!

And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable,
that it is not possible that ever you can say that "I have known her," or, "I
have known him." At the most you can say, "I have tried my best, but the mystery
remains a mystery." In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other
becomes.
Then love is a constant adventure.

- Osho

And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable, that
it is not possible that ever you can say that "I have known her," or, "I have
known him." At the most you can say, "I have tried my best, but the mystery
remains a mystery." In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other
becomes.
Then love is a constant adventure.

- Osho

Vincent Van Gogh

2009-10-04T18:30:00.000-07:00

This Modern Art Painting is a Still Life - Vase with Twelve flowers, Saligramam, Chennai. This is a new addition to my Art Gallary with collection of paintings.

This painting is with oil on canvas, done on a Fine Art - a branded canvas board, formerly known as Tri-star Colman.

This board was kept in the shelf for a long time and the time has come for it to give a beautiful look. Other wise, the medium Acrylic with brushes on hard paper.

The canvas drawing boards are pretty hard with a Natural cotton duck having double Acrylic Titanum Priming on it.

With an Agro based particle board is acid free sizing and suitable for Oil painting or Acrylic painting.

Good thing is that these boards can be hanged with or without framing.

However, the work is similar kind of the piece that was done by Vincent Van Gogh during Aug 1888. It is a Still Life - Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.

Van Gogh is a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist whose paintings had a far reaching influence on 20th century art.

Little appreciated during his lifetime, his reputation increased in the years after his death.

Today he is regarded as one of history's greatest artists and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art.

Saraswati Painting

2009-09-27T23:41:00.000-07:00

Goddess Saraswati Painting

Goddess Saraswati (Sarasvati) is the wife of Lord Brahma and possesses the powers of speech, wisdom and learning. She has four hands representing four aspects of human personality in learning; mind, intellect, alertness and ego.

She has sacred scriptures in one hand and a lotus (a symbol of true knowledge) in the second. With her other two hands she plays the music of love and life on the violin (veena).

She is always depicted with dress in white (sign of purity) and riding on a white goose (swan).

However, it is my painting of Goddess Saraswati with Cloth and oil paints with brushes. This painting work took around 1 hour to complete. This work was of free hand with brushes full of colors and without initial outlines or line work that is normally done with pencils.

It was a honor for me to imagine goddess Saraswati on this special day of Dassera Navaratri festival.

Art and Visual Communication

2009-08-04T01:45:00.000-07:00

Visual Communications:

Visualisation, Illustration, Computer graphics, Animation, Art direction, Photography and Typography are all in Fine Arts.

Adishevelled look and uncompromising attitude were the hallmarks of a struggling artist until a few years ago. Today, you wouldn't be surprised to find art students cavorting their way into the corridors of power in the corporate world. This transition can be attributed to a rapidly globalising world, opening doors to countless opportunities for students, who can communicate a message aesthetically.

Students of applied art (as commercial art is known in the academic parlance) can find employment opportunities with animation companies , work as illustrators or graphic designers in Internet firms, and the electronic and print media. They may also work in the fashion or textile industry, or in furniture designing and interior decoration set-ups . This is all, of course, in addition to the traditional prospects in the advertising field, as visualisers, designers, art directors, illustrators , photographers and editors.

THE CURRICULUM

Design is art that makes itself useful 1984 poster for Die Neue Sammlung, Design Museum, Munich True to this statement, applied art is all about translating your artistic talent into a marketable discipline. The thin line that differentiates commercial art from fine art is that in case of the former, your art is aimed at satisfying a purpose, ie, communicating an idea and not your creative soul, as is the case with the latter.

For any youngster, who has an inclination towards a career in commercial arts, it is mandatory to gather information about the course much before you take the final plunge.

People were taught traditional drawing board techniques of graphic representation in the first year. After that, they had to choose one of five electives, which included typography, illustration, photography, computer graphics, and display.

FIRST STEPS for the Fine Arts

The earlier the better. Once you know that the bug has bitten you, focus on sharpening your skills, so that by the time you appear for the art college entrance exams after class 12, you have an edge over others. When I was in class eight, I had made up my mind to become a commercial artist. I visited art college campuses that year, and collected information on what I need to arm myself with, before I set sail on this ship. On the advice of my professors, and taking a few cues from some seniors I spoke to, I enrolled myself in an art foundation course.

Check if you fit the BILL

As the canvas of work for commercial artists is vast, students aspiring to make a career in this field, not only need to be good artists, but also need to be adept in the art of communication, marketing and publicity. As a commercial artist, you will be expected to be creative, but will also need to follow an established style or direction, and keep abreast with the latest technologies. In some roles, you will need to have customer service and business skills as well.

If you are attracted to this field because you think this will turn out to be a hobby class, where you can candidly let your creative juices flow, and acquire a university degree at the end of it, you are thoroughly mistaken. This is no doubt a very lucrative and versatile career choice and your options are unlimited. However, it is very demanding. You need to clearly understand that fame and money will not come overnight in this profession.

Your aptitude for art and basic communication skills will be put to the test in any entrance exam that leads to admission in an institute of repute. You will need to constantly update your skills and never stop learning.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

A BFA course will teach you the basics of art, but it is your own initiative that will make you a master in your chosen field. Dont complain about lack of infrastructure or quality teachers in your institute. If you are passionate, nothing can stop you from being the best in your chosen vocation. For students of commercial art, your personal enterprise is most important.

Although the syllabi at art institutes are revamped according to industry requirements, most often, what sells like hot cakes in the market, may not essentially be a part of your curriculum. In such cases, colleges can come to the students rescue.

Students are exposed to a variety of new concepts, and colleges can help with some hand-holding by offering short-term courses, holding exhibitions and organising seminars.

MONEY Really Matters

This industry produces some of the most highly paid professionals. However, it is also true that an artists marketability depends more on his or her aptitude and skill sets, rather than the degree that he or she holds.

The starting salary of a commercial artist today can range from Rs 15,000 $300 to Rs 25,000 $500, depending on the industry, the pay gets better as you move up the ladder. Graphic designers, visualisers and art directors today, can command very high salaries, often in six digits.

Freelancers can also make a decent living, starting from Rs 2000 for designing visiting cards, to Rs 10,000 $200 to Rs 20,000 $400 for creating a companys logos.

Painting Styles

2009-06-11T04:00:00.000-07:00

Perfect Painting Styles of the world:
First of all I want to introduce my kid's painting (to the left). which is an abstract style and he did it in just few minutes, and guess what?? While he is at the age of two and half!

"Style" is referred in two senses:
It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that express indirectly an individual artist's work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a category in which art historians have placed the painter.

The word 'style' in the other sense has fallen out of favor in academic discussions about contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts. Such movements or classifications include the following :
Western styles and Eastern styles

Western Style:

Abstract
Abstract Expressionism
Art Brut
Art Deco
Baroque
Body painting
CoBrA
Color Field
Constructivism
Contemporary
Art
Cubism
Digital painting
Expressionism
Fauvism
Figuration
Libre
Folk
Futurism
Graffiti
Hard-edge
Hyperrealism
Impressionism
Lyrical Abstraction
Mannerism
Minimalism
Modernism
Naïve art
Neo-classicism
Op art
Orientalism
Orphism
Outsider
Painterly
Photorealism
Pinstriping
Pluralism
Pointillism
Pop art
Post-painterly
Abstraction
Postmodernism
Precisionism
Primitive
Realism
Regionalism
Rococo
Romantic realism
Romanticism
Socialist
realism
Street
Art
Stuckism
Surrealism
Tachism
Tonalism

Eastern Style:

Far Eastern
Chinese

Tang Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

Shan shui

Ink and wash painting

Hua niao

Southern School

Zhe School

Wu School

Contemporary

Japanese

Yamato-e

Rimpa school

Emakimono

Kanō school

Shijō school

Korean

Islamic / Near eastern

Ottoman miniature

Persian miniature

Indian

Mysore

Tanjore

Madhubani

Rajput

Mughal

Bengal school

Samikshavad

Lord Rama of Bhadrachalam Temple

2009-04-16T05:04:00.000-07:00

Famous Artists of the World: A renowned painter once held an exhibition of his exquisite works that he had done over the years. A reporter, who was interviewing him , asked him, "which one do you think is your best painting?"

The painter promptly answered, "The next one that I paint".

Here is my painting dedicated to Lord Rama of Bhadrachalam Temple completed during January 2008 and all the motivation and inspiration I require can be got from this one single idea.

I close my eyes and imagine, "My next painting will be the best". All my paintings are mostly resemble Hindu Mythology.

It tells me, "Today's experiences will give me that added maturity and thus place me with the advantage to face my tomorrow with higher maturity... and this is never-ending".

My Wedding Invitation

2009-04-09T02:25:00.000-07:00

Artists have no limits on their creativity. Here is the reason for the statement.

Today, I see a catchy email in my inbox that is none other than a Wedding Invitation idea for the about to marry couples out there on the Internet, searching for some good ideas and wordings on they yet to be printed Wedding invitations.

It sounds like poem that reads "My task is to go where no one has gone before and invent the wheel". Thats how is the creativity of artists. ;)

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Kids Toys and Rhymes

2008-08-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

These are the cartoon videos that Kids normally like and enjoy.

This video teaches Alphabits and numbers with animals. The following videos are Telugu Rhymes that kids can have fun with: