Jingle Bell

Jingle Bells for Christmas!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...

Just experimenting with oil pastel painting. It is done on a 9" x 12" paper.

Innocence

Pencil sketch done with 8B,4B,2H and charcoal pencils on a 11"x17" paper.

Cherry Tomato Splash

I was thinking of doing a drawing with water splash from many days. This time I got a very good reference photo(which I can't post it because of copyright issues) and thought of materializing it on a paper. But finally the water splash was the one which came worse in this work :(. Hope practice will solve it.

It is an oil painting done on a 16" x 20" canvas.

Lips

This is another tutorial practice work. It was a wonderful tutorial and I learned a lot from this exercise.

It is done on a 9" x 12" paper using 2H, B, 4B pencils.

An eye to the world

I got inspired to do this after seeing one of my friends work. When I researched more about drawing an eye I got a very useful online tutorial . I did this as a practice work to understand the tutorial.

It is done on a 9" x 12" paper with 2H, B, 3B, 6B pencils.

Stawberry

I love strawberries. Last time when we were back from shopping we bought some of them and I was just curious to draw it.

It was just an experiment. I just tried to create a pencil sketch, a crayon sketch and a watercolor pencil sketch of it. It was my trial with crayons and watercolor pencils and I felt it didn't come well this time. But then it was a quick trial and so its okay.

It is done on 9" x 12" sheet of watercolor paper.

Birds of paradise

A bouquet of flowers in a corner of the room is really pleasing. Here comes a bouquet of Birds of Paradise flowers.

I have kept this for drying now. When it is ready, I am planning to make this a part of my living room.

It is an oil painting done on a 16" x 20" canvas. It is my first attempt with a bigger canvas size.

Tulips in a glass vase

It is an acrylic art done on 9" x 12" mixed media paper.

Tulip

Flower experiments continues... Its an orange tulip. I did this in a 9" x 12" paper using color pencils.

Seeking Serenity

Are these birds flying away fearing the inhuman fumes coming out? Or are they trying to spread peace across the world while the human beings fight themselves for nothing? I am not sure.

I got to see this scene in one of the Indian news channel covering the barbaric Mumbai terror strike. It is the prestigious icon of India - 'The Taj Mahal Hotel' in fumes.

I used 2H, 3B, 5B graphite pencils and medium charcoal pencil for this work. It is done in a 9" x 12" paper.

Dalia

I am continuing my experiments with flowers and here is my attempt in drawing Dalia flowers with both color pencils and water color. It's my first try with color pencil sketch.

Roses

My first experiment with Acrylic comes here. Thought of spending the long weekend with more art works. So with the full excitement, I started working with my new acrylic colors. :) I tried to recreate one of the photo taken by me here. I have used 9" x 12" Mixed Media paper for this work.

I am thinking of doing more experiments with flowers in coming days. I will keep you posted as I progress my work.

Simba

Got to see Madagascar-Escape to Africa last week and inspired to draw a lion after seeing Alex "The King of New York City".

It is an African Lion done with oil paint. I used a 12" x 16" canvas for this.

The original picture is posted below.

Unni...

Unni my nephew. I did this using B,3B,6B pencils in a 11" x 17 " drawing sheet.
When I felt like drawing some cute kiddies picture, I started searching for a model photo and apparently I ended up with my own nephew. :) Luv ya unni...

Original photo is posted below.

My first oil painting

Bamboos... It is my first attempt in oil painting. I did some research before doing this and realized that I should select some thing close up with more details in it. I wanted to do some piece from the Nature and ended up doing this.. I used a 12 " x 16 " canvas for this.

Shawl for my mom

This too is an old work that I made for my mom. This is again a woolen shawl using croshio stitching.

Sweet Home

I did this long time back. It is done with woolen thread on plastic mesh. The flowers are made using flower frames and stiched into the mesh. It is decorating our living room now. :)

Engraving Art

Puppy and Kitty... My first engraving experiment. It is actually a do it your self kit. I just did the scrapping work. I love metal engraving and embossing. Now I am not able to find proper materials for it. As soon as I get it I will update you with more engraving/embossing arts.

Woolen shawl

Woolen shawl I made. Croshio stitching is used here.

Lady with flowers...

Another experiment in glass painting.. The sketch I did for this pattern is posted below.

My first glass painting

My experiment with glass painting starts here.. It is a Russian sunflower.. I was looking for a simple design to start with and I got this pattern from www.lostartoriginals.com .. It is a wonderful site for glass painting..

Double Layer Chocolate/Vanilla cake.

I made this for our first Wedding Anniversary(02/05/2008). The recipe is posted below.

For the cake

3 cups sifted flour
3 cups sugar (or powdered sugar)
3 sticks salted butter (softened)
5 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon vanilla
Half cup cocoa

For decoration

1 cup Whipped cream Chocolate
2 cup whipped cream Vanilla
Chopped Nut toppings
Cherry toppings
Hershey’s dark chocolate

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 325°F. Sift flour 3 times with sea salt and baking powder, then set aside. Put softened butter and sugar in mixing bowl, mix for 15 minutes on medium speed. Break eggs into a bowl, then reduce speed to low. Add eggs one at a time. Stir vanilla. Divide flour into three portions then add, alternating with liquid, as follows: When thoroughly mixed, add one cup of flour, then a half cup of buttermilk, one more cup of flour, then another cup of buttermilk, then the last cup of flour. Mix well, but do not overmix! (A rubber spatula helps to scrape down sides of bowl while mixing).

Pour exactly half of batter into a greased and flour-dusted Cake Pan. Put cocoa into rest of batter and mix it well. Pour it into the second greased and flour dusted Cake Pan.

Bake At 325°F for 60-70 minutes. Time may vary for different cake pans and ovens. So set it accordingly.

Icing:

Let the cake come to room temperature.

Now beat the chocolate and vanilla whipped creams in two bowls. Keep the yellow cake on a cake base. Apply vanilla cream on top of it. Keep the chocolate cake on top of it. Apply Chocolate on top of the cake using proper applicator. Apply Vanilla on sides. Now take the vanilla whipped cream in a disposable cone with star cone end. Do the side wise decoration with it. Put the nut toppings above the chocolate icing. Do some more decoration with cherry toppings if needed. Grate the Hershey’s chocolate and put that above the vanilla icing.

The Cake is ready!!! Enjoy!!!

Teddy Bear

Long time back I did this.. It is a wall hanging made with woolen thread on plastic mesh..

Squirrel

One of my friend gave me a positive criticism after seeing my previous post that it would have been good if I tried shading too in that. So here come my next creation to try shading..

I made this from one of the photograph taken by me.. I used pencil for the squirrel and Charcoal for the background..

Guess who?

let this be my maiden post here.. I tried this for my sweet heart's birthday.. I did this with a normal HB pencil in A4 size paper.. :)

My artworks revamped after a long break through this work. I know this isn't a great work. But still I felt so delighted after doing this one. I was not sure whether I will be able to do it well because my drawing history ends back in my school days. After that I remember doing drawings in my lab records ( and of course 'Electrical and Machine Drawing' How can I forget that? It was a trembling paper during my graduation days). Still I was longing to give some personalized gift to my hubby. So thought of giving it a try and the most exciting part for me was my hubby liked it very much (at least he acted so to encourage me) .. :)