After a long long break from my easel and pastels, I ‘think’ I am getting back to it. Feels good! Scumbling is so much fun…

My keyboard, well, I am working alongside my painting…is all nice and pink as well

I paint in spurts and bounds, one teeny weeny painting, and then a long break.

Just need to shake off the laziness and get down to some serious pastelling. I kind of promise myself each time I paint, that this time it is going to stay…I mean the painter in me Well, here’s another attempt…will be posting the finished version on Wetcanvas very soon…here is the WIP for now…

Tags: floral portrait, purple, Tulip

Just came back from a lovely little vacation in the hills. On the way to Palampur, clicked several hundred pictures…couldn’t resist as everything seemed so divine and beautiful. But sometimes what your mind can capture the camera fails to. This is a work in progress, this time I painted a small one (as suggested by my hub) so that I would atleast get on to some serious painting stuff, have taken quite a long break from my pastels…high time I started, rather re-started!!

Hopefully this time, I will be painting in full swing

Here’s the next version, still some areas are unfinished…hopefully I will complete this today and start another one…

Pure pigment, pure bliss…Pastels are simply irresistible! So finally after almost a zillion days I am back at my easel, pastelling! It is therapeutic, I must say.

Clicked a picture of these in a garden, don’t know what these are called. Let me know if someone figures it out!

My son is now 2 years and 2 months old, and well, here is something from him as well. He is doing quite a bit of doodling now. Look at the neat and crisp scribbles…looks like he has a fascination for fruits n veggies. Though he likes to draw planes and birdies too. Infact, one day he surprised me by drawing “me” That was kind of cute though. Complete with my shoes…

Lately I have been thinking of experimenting a little…been wanting to paint a simple/abstract like painting. This one is a small approx 10″x10″ of a bouganvillea, done on neutral gray canson paper. Before I started off, I was quite unsure about what it would it look like. Well, I can say, I am quite happy with the result!

Another one from a picture on Wetcanvas Reference Library.
I really enjoyed working on the background haze…

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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers", said master Impressionist Claude Monet. Rich in color, texture and often fragrance, flowers entice the senses. I like to paint the beauty and richness of nature. I enjoy working with Soft Pastels. It's a very versatile medium.

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