Van Gogh Sunflowers

Abstract painting

abstract painting in three pieces

Starry night _Van Gogh

Folks art_ Warali art

Birds of heaven

Mother nature

Gajaraj

water colours

water colours

water colours

Sunset

Woman in the temple

Woman in the Temple

Acrylic colours on 30x40 cm canvas.

Dholak

Dholak

Acrylic colours on 50x50 cm canvas.

The Dholak is mainly a folk instrument, lacking the exact tuning and playing techniques of the tabla or the Pakhawaj. The vibrations create a bass sound and lend a different hue to the music. It is widely used in Indian film music and also in traditional weddings among some communities in India.

Shakti

Shakti: 

The divine feminine power

        Acrylic colours on 50x50 cm canvas

Shakti ("power, ability, strength, might, effort, energy, capability"), is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism.

Shakti is the concept or personification of divine feminine creative power, sometimes referred to as "The Great Divine Mother" in Hinduism. On the earthly plane, Shakti most actively manifests through female embodiment and creativity/fertility. It is believed that Shakti is both responsible for creation and the agent of all change. Shakti is cosmic existence as well as liberation.

Ganesha

Ganesha
Acrylic colours on 40x50 cm canvas.

 

Ganesha is truly a combination of both human and animal parts and thereby symbolizes life or being in its diverse aspects. His form also symbolizes the combination of all five elements. It has both symmetrical and asymmetrical aspects. Together they represent fullness. They also reflect the duality of perfection and imperfection as well as the transcendental and the immanent aspects of our creation.

Rajastani Folks

Rajastani Folks
Acrylic colours on 50x50 cm canvas

A little me-time, a little time to bond, a little time out of the daily routine.
With friends around, every pain ceases to be and every thing becomes bearable.

Shree Ganesha

Shree Ganesha
Acrylic colours on 50x50cm canvas

Ganpati Bappa Moraya!
Always revered and remembered for every new task, new job, new thing to be undertaken in life.
He represents heroic power, strength, leadership, knowledge and wisdom.

Meera

Meera
Acrylic colours on 50x50 cm canvas

Meera, also known as Meera Bai or Mirabai (1498-1546) was a Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna God. Most legends about Meera mention her fearless disregard for social and family conventions, her devotion to god Krishna, her treating Krishna as her husband, and she being persecuted by her in-laws for her religious devotion.
Thousands of devotional poems in passionate praise of Lord Krishna are attributed to Meera in the Indian tradition, but just a few hundred are believed to be authentic by scholars, and the earliest written records suggest that except for two poems, most were written down only in the 18th century.
What devotion! What divine love for the lord!

Ganapati

Ganapati

Acrylic colours on 30x40 cm canvas 

Ganapati, Ganesha, Vinayaka, he has many names!He is the favorite God of every Indian child and is also popular in Sri lanka, Thailand and Nepal. He is widely revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences. As the god of beginnings, he is honored at the start of rituals and ceremonies. A little information on Symbolism and Significance of Ganapati:

1)Ganesha's big belly represents generosity and total acceptance.

2)Ganesha's upraised hand depicts protection.

3) Ganesha also has a single tusk which signifies one-pointedness

Because of his identification with the color red, he is often worshiped with red sandalwood paste or red flowers.

Kathakali

Kathakali:The Dancer
Acrylic colours on 40x40 cm canvas

Kathakali is one of the major forms of classical Indian dance. It is a "story play" genre of art, but one distinguished by the elaborately colorful make-up, costumes and face masks that the traditionally male actor-dancers wear. A Kathakali performance, like all classical dance arts of India, synthesizes music, vocal performers, choreography and hand and facial gestures together to express ideas. However, Kathakali differs in that it also incorporates movements from ancient Indian martial arts and athletic traditions of South India. It takes hours to get dressed and the face masks are very heavy. With them on, dancing for hours together requires a lot of strength and skill and devotion towards the art. The traditional themes of the Kathakali are folk mythologies, religious legends and spiritual ideas from the Hindu epics. In modern compositions, Indian Kathakali troupes have included women artists, as well as adapted Western stories and plays such as those by Shakespeare and from Christianity.

Sometimes I wonder, what emotions run behind that face mask and how does a dancer depict so much with just the eyes..

Mayur

Mayur:The divine bird 

Acrylic colours on 50x60 cm canvas

The proudest and most beautiful bird! How can nature bestow so many colors on this single bird!It senses the arrival of rains and the monsoon season and dances as if it welcomes the rains on the parched soil. It dances in its full capacity without bothering how many feathers it is losing at a single time. Life should be lead like this, in that particular moment, live and dance as if there is no tomorrow..

Buddha

Buddha:  

Acrylic colours on 30x40 cm canvas

Gautama or Buddha is the primary figure in Buddhism. This figure evokes inner peace, enlightenment and compassion towards fellow beings.
It teaches to appreciate who you are.
You are a BUDDHA too.
You are the best thing that ever appeared on this whole planet. If you believe there is nothing you cannot do with your life, then there IS nothing you cannot do.
To believe that you can do anything is to bring your life in harmony.
He who perceive the greatness of his life is a Buddha. He who doesn't is a fool.

The Beauty

The Beauty

Acrylic colours on 40x50 cm canvas.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
I know...
I am beautiful,
I am successful,
I am intelligent and independent and settled down well in my life.
Why is still my outer beauty considered more worthy than my inner beauty ?

Red passion

Red Passion

Acrylic colours on 30x40 cm canvas

Red is the color of extremes. It’s the color of passionate love, seduction, violence, danger, anger, and adventure. Red was also regarded as the color of fire and blood – energy and primal life forces.

Red is me and I am red.

Ready to be embraced in a new leash of life! 

The Raingirl

The Raingirl

Acrylic colours on 30x40 cm canvas

The Kiss

The Kiss

Acrylic colours on 40x40 cm canvas

Unaware of the surrounding
And unaware of the time
My heart lies with you
And I find peace only in your life

The Perfume

The Perfume

Acrylic colours on 40x50cm canvas

Perfume flaunts class
Perfume flaunts taste
Perfume flaunts a choice
Perfume makes me exuberant.
A choice to be in my best mood and with my best self.

The Ball

The Ball

Acrylic colours on 40x40 cm canvas

Now I've had the time of my life
No I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it's the truth
And I owe it all to you

The Moment

The Moment
Acrylic colour on 40x50cm canvas

That one moment when the world stops revolving
That one moment when your heart beat starts racing
That one moment when you close your eyes
And experience the most beautiful thing in your life.
A lingering, sometimes fulfilling, sometimes thirsty, leaving for more.
That perfect kiss..