Pazzo 1

Offering Words

Doubting my self

Watching

Feeling pressured to offer

Watching

Doing laundry and not drawing

Watching

My head and throat hurt

Watching

Overwhelmed by the art I saw today

Watching

Picking up the tools now

Watching

Watching with open heart what comes

Dad

Pruning myself :-)

A weighty flower... it takes all kinds :-)

Sunlight filtering thru the 
garden outside. 

Ashwini dancing and enthralling me :-)

A small acrylic, ink and stick image of a temple i visited a long while ago in Dharwad.

Raghu and Zoya posed for me last evening.  

Ink, stick, acrylic on 6"x8"

Have been out for a few days traveling and attending a 

conference with the kids and dh.  So not much happened on the art scene.  

But i sat today with grim determination and 

some lovely things came about :-)

 

Finding it hard to finish images since yesterday.
Here are 2 images of bottles in watercolor on 9"x6"

I took on more than i could manage yesterday 
and could only complete it today.  So another image by tonight :-)
Gotta keep the image-a-day going.

A playful, Klee inspired, peaceful evening spent with my children...
all reflected in this image.  Watercolor 9" x 12"

Zoya's feather collection in a hand made pot.
Ink, spit and stick.  6"x8"

Balkad Menshinkai in a glass jar (dry, stuffed chillies)
Ink, water and stick. 6"x8"

I'm newly inspired by http://shiftinglight.com/ and http://duanekeiser.blogspot.in/.  I plan on drawing everyday this year. 


I have been considering how unpredictable my life with my kids is... as we are unschooling/life-learning etc.  So my days are sometimes easy and wide open.  Sometimes they are full and chaotic.  I have begun to feel a need to feel ink on my fingers if not the buttery oils i love.  So I've begun.  


One drawing/painting a day is not hard.  Easy to focus on.  I don't have to plan in advance.  I can sit anywhere in the house that inspires.  And i'm not taking these drawings seriously... i plan to just do them, have fun and share them here. I plan to use small sized bits of paper and canvas board or other material.  So that size and set-up-time is not distracting me for now.

At the local PPC meet up i sketched around Chatushringi Temple. PPC or Pune Pencil Club brings together people who like to create art.  Some are professional, some are hobbyists.  I love drawing outdoors.  This group has helped me get out to draw again.

I have been using photography as a medium this past year.  Especially when i feel i have less time on hand or no materials around.  Its been artistically satisfying.  Some examples are below.  

I've also discovered a lovely group in Pune called the Pune Pencil Club.  They meet as often as possible and sketch, share art and talk art.  My first meeting was delightful.  I got to talk about art and artists and felt truly quenched.  This little sketch is from that meeting.  Its a corner of the coffee shop we sat at.... Grubshup.  The owner is an art supporter and provides free exhibition space to local artists.