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Franklin McCoy commented on J L Anil Kumar's photo
Gudibande Fort
"Lovely Anil Ji. Nice to see monuments. They have a charm by themselves! Thanks for posting such a lovely piece of work!"
Franklin McCoy commented on Soman Patnaik's photo
Trees_Graphite study_2
"Wow! This is simply wonderful! It looks Gothic. It has a morbid beauty to it! It looks melancholic and yet so full of life! Amazing Sirji. As I said before...you never fail to inspire
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Soman Patnaik commented on J L Anil Kumar's photoGudibande Fort
"Wow!!! So glad to be the first to comment on such a wonderful painting here... The flow and mixing of colours are seemless...so nicely blended...the rock on the left side and infact everything is wonderfully made Aniljee...looks so free-flowing!!!…"
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Gudibande Fort
Watercolours on Chitrapat, 240 gsm, A4 paper.Reference picture by Siddeswar of http://karnatakatravel.blogspot.in/2011/11/gudibande-fort.htmlThanks for the kind permission
Prosenjit Roy commented on abhrodeep mukherjee's photo
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"Nice and lively expression here, Abhrodeep! And I like the darky-darks around her.
Just one nit... the teeth, in general are set in a pronounced arch on the respective jaw bones (upper or lower), rather than being straight-ish (bite into a piece of…"
J L Anil Kumar commented on Partha Mekerira's photo
African child
"They lost a good student and we an artist? Good ones Pratha! I now want more recent ones!"
Prosenjit Roy commented on Charu's photo
gul-mohar
"Oh this is lovely, Charu! The transitions/blends from crimson to green are to die for... and yes, as Dhruba has commented, there indeed is a translucent, back-lit effect to it. Kudos to you!"
Prosenjit Roy commented on Manu Sosa Núñez's photo
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"Lovely 3-dimensionality to that lap/knee area Manu, and that left hand too.
Perhaps, in a subsequent exercise, you might want to cover up all 'pure-white' areas with some hatching marks too... so that the transitions from hatched to…"
Prosenjit Roy replied to Rashmi Patel's discussion A still-life attempt in the group The Oils Group"My humble two cents...
"And then because I blocked the windows, the room is one airless dungeon!" - Rashmi, that seems counterintuitive to every opinion I've come across on oil painting techniques @ 'airless dungeon'. Those…"
Soman Patnaik commented on Jay Varma's photo
Roshni 1
"The words that come out here cannot express how I am feeling looking at the magic here!!!....Exquisite... Priceless... Inspirational... this is the level that I want my drawings/painting to reach... wish me luck fellas!!!
Jay jee... Hats off to…"
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Today's Daily Drawing Assignment: 192. The Sivatherium
Imagine an animal that had the body of an okapi, more antlers than a moose and a size that matched an elephant. Now imagine running after one of these (or running from) with your neighbors with nothing in hand but a stone dagger!
Today's assignment is to reconstruct the amazing Sivatherium with you standing next to it. Go mesolithic. Here.
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Oil painting ... -_-
Posted by Pia Meenakshi on May 18, 2012 at 12:13pm 9 Comments 0 Favorites
So last nights oil painting attempt was a bust. I got home so tired (yet stoked as hell!) and I knew what I wanted to paint. A female portrait, something I wouldn't have too much of trouble with.
I went and checked out my youtube…
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Posted by George Supreeth on May 18, 2012 at 12:30am 2 Comments 1 Favorite
I've compiled slideshows that you may enjoy browsing.
You can use the buttons at the bottom of the slideshow to go full screen. It's a nicer experience.
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I embrace my freedom in a Thousand bonds of Delight!
Posted by Raj Akkihal on April 30, 2012 at 2:37pm 3 Comments 0 Favorites
I embrace my freedom in a Thousand bonds of Delight! - A line from Gitanjali of Tagore... can we capture the essence of this line in a drawing with our imagination?
STAGES OF PROGRESS_Should I be lazy or naughty today...
Posted by Soman Patnaik on April 25, 2012 at 11:30pm 9 Comments 2 Favorites
Stages from start to finish...from top left side to bottom right hand corner...and the final version.
I started with the outline... and then worked on the tonal values. The drawing was on a 24X30cm 130gsm cartridge sheet. The pencil used…
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Painting your Own value study
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how to symbolize "MEMORY" in a painting... any suggestions???
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The P3 Complex
Know what P3 is? It's ?Paper, Person, Perception. The holy trinity of drawing. It's because drawing is never one sided and it's something people tend to forget all too easily. Y'see, the process of drawing actually comprises a trinity. We usually assume there is just one entity involved, 'I'. This post is about the mysterious holy trinity of drawing. The trio that is fundamental to learning about the world (and yourself) through drawing.Apples and Oranges
Comparing Apples to Lightbulbs This post is about categorisation errors, and about how confusing such fallacies are when applied without thought. Let’s start with a simplified example. mathematician: Understand Math? Other guy: Absolutely! mathematician: What’s 2 x 2 Other guy: 6 mathematician: Um, isn’t that 4? Other guy: Well, my belief system is different… The mathematician is obviously refering to simple arithmetic. The other guy however is somewhere else. Not only did he get the sum wrong, he’s gone ahead and botched up the category itself. It’s like comparing apples to lightbulbs. Confounding and frustrating. What does one do when ...We Draws for a Cause.
Saturday before last, we found ourselves bright and early (at 9:3o am, haha!) on the shores of the mind bogglingly HUGE Bellandur lake. Remember, it was World Environment day then? We had our eyes open and our sketchbooks out (wands at the ready!) We found HSBC employees on a tree-plantathon, here.Art under the Influence?
This discussion on our online community made me think about why we draw what we draw. The question was, why do we draw? George’s reply was enlightening: “… Why this urgency to convey our subjective experiences? Writers, artists, musicians are all engaged in this activity, so it’s not simply a one off thing. The attempt to turn subjective experiences into tangible reality is a natural process of being human….” Why, then we should be drawing all the time! George explains why we don’t: “… As a young ...© 2012 Created by George Supreeth.
