100 Happy Days: Day 94 A New Canvas Arrives

Happiness is starting a new painting

Met a 90years old artist last week and got inspired by her work. She has some beautiful paintings in oils. I decided to make one too. I asked her if she would help me. She invited me to go to her house. I asked her to sketch for me and give me little guidance. She was willing too. The only problem is to go to Navi Mumbai, which is pretty far from my house. 

Maybe I could do something else? Warli is the painting on my mind. I don’t wish to paint in oils because it takes too much time to complete. I need to finish this in two months. I have decided to paint in acrylic and this time it will Warli paintings.

Morning was spent just sketching the outline. Okay, there is still time.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 38 Painting.

Happiness is painting the furniture to give a neat look

The condition of environment reflects on my moods. I am mostly at peace when I am in the clean room. But of late, I have neglected my house. Since last two years, society made promises of redevelopment and it seemed like it would happen immediately. I had made plans to rid of all the old furniture and would buy a brand new when I moved to a new house.

What was the use of doing any repairs or shining the house, if it was going to break soon?

The neglect slowly eroded the walls of my room and the furniture was peeling off its paints. This created bad vibrations  that changed my moods too. I was irritable and uncomfortable.

Everyday, new laws are introduced and delay is imminent. Seems like redevelopment is going to be just a dream. I decided not to wait any more. Happiness was a better option so I called the painter and asked him to paint all the furniture in light grey.

Some uplifts in my room has uplifted my spirit too.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 33 Design on my Mobile Cover.

Happiness is splashing your creativity on your mobile covers.

There are hundreds of mobile covers in the market. Different covers for different models. They all sell because we get tired of same design in our hands.

I was tired of seeing one white color on my mobile cover for too long and wanted change. Went to different kiosks looking for one particular color. I wanted light purple. There were blues, greens, blacks and white but no purple. The salesman told me to wait for few weeks.

So while I waited for the right color to arrive, I dabbled on my acrylic paints. Painted strips of three different colors horizontally and finally coated with black mesh. It looks different, its unique. I am sure nobody else will have this design except me.

 It looks branded now. I am happy with the result

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 32 Creative designs.

Happiness is learning a new technique.

Recently I went to Vikhroli Skin to attend this art and craft exhibition. Everything on display was handcrafted article. This is my main field of interest. I love watching people work on creative stuff. There were greeting card, origami, paper art and many more, but one particular art that caught my attention was about this man working on a glass surface.

I had learnt the technique of glass painting but this was altogether a different technique. This person was creating beautiful design by just sticking a colored adhesive paper on a glass.

From a distance you would feel this to be a glass painting but a closer look will reveal that this is a collage of colored paper. The artist made a drawing on a paper. The strips of colored adhesive paper were traced and cut out. They were then stuck on the glass, strip by strip, with great precision.

It is just a cut and paste method, but a time consuming activity that requires lot of concentration and patience and the results are amazing.

Happy to learn this new technique

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

Made Ganesha Idol This Year

I still like creating handicraft stuff, really I do. Well that’s what I would do all day if I am not occupied with listening to the music, or flipping through pages of a book or hang around social media or FB, twitter, blogging, movies, food, friends. Can’t help it.   Too many distractions or should I say ‘too many interest’?

Well, last week I was with some friends in Tenerife and my friend suggested I make an idol of Ganesha for her. In India, during Ganpati season, all the stores are full of idols but in places out of India, it is difficult to find unless you visit an art store.

I have silicon mold to begin with, all I needed was the rest of the art materials.

I have an artist friend who also owns a hobby store, so it was not difficult to find the materials required to make the idol. Many years ago I had learnt to make clay by binding fevicol glue with corn flour (which is more eco-friendly) but my friend suggested I use chalk powder.

First step was to mix chalk powder with water and pour it into the mold. Let it set for 30 minutes and then remove it.

The idol was ready and now it has to be kept for drying for at least a week.

The idol has to be scraped and polished using sand paper, to give it a smooth finish, a special attention to be given to the base so that it is able to stand. I stuck the base to a rectangular cardboard and stuck few beans to give it a rough look.

After one week, the idol is coated with base solution (kind of rubber solution) that will prevent it from absorbing too much paint.

I selected white paint for the idol because it gives an ivory look.

A final coat of gold paint to highlight the jewelry on the idol.

It was important to mount it on a stand. I bought empty boxes, stuffed them with newspaper and covered it with gold paper.

And finally a decorative lace on the border did the trick.