Breaking Free

 

"We're soarin', flyin' 

There's not a star in the Heaven

That we can't reach!"

First I painted the background with sap green/olive green mixed with white flake. Then I had to struggle a bit to get the bird right since the beak and the left wing I had painted did not make much impression. I allowed the paint to dry then applied the colors again.

Taming Horses

This painting involved a lot of blending vermillion hue(a shade of red), orange, crimson red and burnt sienna. For the horses I used ivory black + little white and for the shadows I used light grey with patches of viridian hue+burnt sienna+white.

Landscape

This is the first oil painting that I have done on canvas. The pine tree has been painted with olive green + ivory black, and the flora has been painted using a small sponge applied with limited pigments of yellow ochre, green and burnt sienna.
The mountains have been painted with cobalt blue with various shades of titanium white.

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.