Kashmiri Flower

One more distinct flower that I saw in Kashmir!
I have used mixed media …acrylics for the flower and water colour for the background.

Gazanias of Kashmir

I saw these striped gazanias in Nishat Bagh, Srinagar.

I have used two media, water colour for the background and acrylic for the flowers. This is because I want flowers to be more opaque than the background.

The following are the steps:
Step1:
After outlining the flowers with a pencil, I applied a wash of light yellow and painted the background.
I used flat brush No. 6.

Step 2:
Then I colored the petals with crimson red and lemon yellow acrylic colors.

Step 3:
I completed the shadows of the petals and made the finishing touches.

Deer in the waters

Deer is my favourite subject of painting. They are beautiful creatures.

The most interesting was applying brush strokes to the trunks of the three trees and difficult part was to depict the water splashing from the turbine.

Saakshi’s sketch

 

This is sketch of my friend YP's daughter Saakshi.

I used scale drawing technique wherein we draw grids on photo and enlarge them on the drawing, then do the sketching.

Dawn with Kingfisher

This is a water colour painting.

The Great Marathas and the Mughals

This is a very old sketch that I drew when I was studying in 7th class.

A simple sketch which shows a battle between the Marathas and the Mughals.

Dawn in the desert

I have used faint colours without much overwork. This painting demonstrates a dawn in desert.
I have used broader brushstrokes for the sky and the sun.

In watercolour, there is a risk of spoiling a successful landscape painting by adding the sky later. It is better to introduce the sky at an early stage so that the tonal relationships can be built up together. So, the desert sand and the moving people have been painted after completing the sky. I have used bluish-black to depict the darkness of moving people and animals.

To create balance in a landscape painting, either the land or the sky must dominate. Here, the land (and the objects on the land) dominate and contain strong centre of interest as compared to the sky.