"Gossip" - Water colors

I am on my own now. Can I take the seeds I have received at the art school and nurture it into a healthy bloom? Only time will tell.

This painting is titled "Gossip".

Reproduction - Boy with his dog

This is a portrait of a young lad with his dog. I am not sure who did this.

Reproduction - Monet

This is a Claude Monet Landscape. I took liberties with the colors. It was more spontaneous.

I think I achieved the freshness of watercolors for the first time to some extent.

Reproduction - Milind Mulick

This was lot of fun. I had always thought this was done on black paper with poster paints, but hardly the case. Instead the brightest part that is the interiors of the shop was left blank white. I was a little skeptic about getting the dark night in water colors but it was fine in the end.

Reproduction - Adoration of Magi, Velaquez

Oh i loved doing this one. It took me 4 sittings of two hours each to complete the sketch and the painting. Its a beautiful painting by a lesser known Spanish painter, Velaquez who nevertheless is regarded as one of the finest.

Reproduction - "Flautist"

I don't know who did this. Perhaps somebody can help. It was printed on a card and I loved the subject a great deal. I think I did this sometime in1995. I am not sure. It isn't entirely flawless. Notice that his feet is a little disproportionately small? And I used black directly. A cardinal sin for a painter... I now know better.

Reproduction - Milkmaid by Raja Ravi Varma

Taking time out to post two old paintings. This one here is a reproduction of "milkmaid" by Ravi Varma. I did that as part of a visual arts project in college. That was in 1995. Considering my knowledge of painting those days was elementary at best, it isnt bad! I was bad at backgrounds. And since the subject came out well, I didn't want to screw it up with a shoddy background. SO i left it plain with the lightest of washes in a safe color- yellow. Visually, it spreads easily.

Children with a deer

This is a painting of a photograph as was published in Reader's Digest. The photograph was so beautiful, shot in artificial light in a very interesting way, that I just had to paint it.