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.