A Rajasthani Girl Playing Flute

This is a 24 by 24 inches oil painting on canvas.

A Rajasthani Couple

This is a 24 by 24 inches oil painting on canvas. It shows a Rajasthani man playing a tabla and his wife dancing. The world is also moving on the tunes.

Lord Ganesha writing Mahabharata

This is 24 by 30 inches oil painting on canvas.

This depicts Lord Ganesha writing the great epic Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata, it is described that Maharshi Ved Vyasa asked Ganesha to help him in writing the text, however Ganesha imposed a condition that he would do so only if Vyasa narrated the story without pause. To which Vyasa then made a counter-condition that Ganesha must understand the verse before he wrote it. Both agreed and the work started. In this process, after every one thousand shlokas, Vyasa used a puzzling shloka(grantha granthi). While Ganesha was in the process of understanding that shloka, Vyasa could compose another thousand shlokas. In this way, Vyasa used thousand grantha-granthis to stop Ganesha's writing speed.

The Compassionate Buddha

This is 18 by 36 inches oil painting on canvas. I used lemon yellow+white for the face and cadmium red+burnt sienna for the shadow of face. I used shades of yellow and orange for the leaves so that they don't appear monotonous.

The Buddha showed the human race the path of peaceful co-existence. He preached the Noble Eightfold Path of Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.

Dancing Ganesha

When music begins, our feet start tapping, our bodies start to move following its rhythm, and before you know it, dancing is in full swing!

This is not dissimilar with painting. Rhythm is created by variety of brush strokes and colours following the movement and shape of the objects. Such rhythm can be seen in this Ganesha painting.

This is 24 by 24 inches oil painting on canvas. I applied two layers of oil paint so that it appears more opaque and colours appear more saturated.

Mansi's oil portrait

Mansi's photo:

Mansi's portrait:

This is my first oil portrait - a child portrait; I have done some water color portraits earlier. The child is my friend Mayur’s daughter who turned 1 yr old on Oct 20 this year.

It was difficult to draw eye brows since children don't have dark eyebrows.

Making a child portrait is more difficult than portraits of adults since children do not have well-defined facial features.

For a portrait, the photo should be taken with camera flash off. Due to flash, we cannot have the light and shadow effect, which has actually happened here.

I defined the shadows on the corners of the face. The lights that are seen on her face in the actual photo are not natural ones, so are not shown. I have neglected details of the dress and the flashed-lights bcoz I don’t want them to be the subject of attention. Hair also need not be realistic.

Painting of a Child

I tried this as a practice for painting a child portrait. This is a 14 by 18 inches oil painting on canvas.