"....Emotion Bare your soul you'll never learn.."
-from song "You Think You Know Her" by Cause & Effect
I like this line, and also the whole song...
Its ture the emotions expose your soul to natural events of life.
We do learn and keep on baring as if it's always summer...
emotions
warm-cool color painting (painting class)
In today's class I completed the Warm-Cool color painting. I had to stay extra 2hrs to complete the work. Even professor stayed along with us, this shows the her dedication to work and art.
When I started, Warm-Cool color painting, I was trying to paint the colors that I see in a cursory glance. It sometime to realize that I need to represent bright parts using Warm colors(Yellow, Orange, Red) and dark using Cool colors( Blue, Violet,green). When I started implementing this for the first time I felt discomfort and confusion. During this painting, I used violet to represent the dark part and this experience made me more relaxed about Warm-Cool color selection. As I applied this theory in to practice, I started enjoying the whole process. During this I started realizing what it means to be an "colorist". Before this experience, to represent shadow, using blue instead of gray was a strange act. Now I started appreciating those things.
Medium for Warm-Cool color painting...
This style of painting does not demand reproduction of original colors. Thus it is good for Wet-On-Wet painting.
This style, may have too many different colors. This means blending is very important and Oil paints are very good at it.
Based on above two, I will use oil paints for Warm-Cool color painting.
Using Brush...
In today's painting I had to depict the threads of bundle of yarn. For this ideally I had to use a fan-brush with bristles spread at the tip. I had to simulate this with the regular flat brush. I spread the bristels using fingers while dipping in painting and also while stroking the canvass. Holding brush like this may sound impracticle idea but holding this way creates certain tension in wrist and this provides nice rhythm for stroke movements.
dust in life
Yesterday me, my colleagues, J & A had lunch together.
J asked me and A "do you have dust in your life?"
I did not understand what he meant by dust
Later J explained "..dust settles on unused things.
Similarly, stagnated life could be referred to as dusty life.."
Also dust refers to cocaine especially when combined with mirror
I do not think I have dust in my life...
rain diluted sleep...
Rain is around from past few days/nights. Two days back, I had this experience, I thought writing an essay on it....
....Rain diluted sleep...
My refrigerator had stopped snoring. Light was seeping through the sheets, as if its searching for my eyes. my eyes woke to stare above, bed sheet looked like a dark but starry sky. Wind was rubbing the wall of trees, it was so obvious, I could hear the texture of leaf & bark. I tried to keep chilly wind out by wrapping the sheet around my foot & legs.
My mind went on to track the rain drops jumping off the grass and also off my head. I wrapped my arms around myself to fight this spilling water. I felt soaked and rain had already diluted my sleep enough so that I could experience the safest moments of my life. I wished that these soft moments extend beyond me but refrigerator's mechanical snore interrupted this symphony of rain & wind, and put me back to silence, the world where I was before..
sold for first time
i never thought that I can sell something to anybody in my life..
but yestarday i was able sell my Canon 28-135mm EF USM IS lens on eBay..
I am really surpraised that I can sell something..
my ebay auction(Item number: 7551584048)..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7551584048&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESO%3AIT&rd=1
even harmony and uneven harmony
even Harmony
Take a look at the bottle, and you will see even curved shapes.
Look at rolling-hill in nature, you will recogize the even harmony
uneven Harmony
Look at a rock, bark, distant mountain...you will see a uneven harmony.
Now try to reproduce these two using pencil...
At least for me it's difficult to reproduce the uneven Harmony compared to
even harmony
saved a painting
I was doing a landscape painting using Acrylic. Acrylic's fast drying nature itself drives me crazy. To make the things worse, this lanscape had a rugged, exposed rock in the foreground. I tried painting it and failed miserably. I was just putting colors and there was no texture. Texture was so intricate that I felt like taking a pencil and do the shading but I was using brush. Rock had various colors too.
Me, neither do I know how to mix those colors nor I know how to get the texture...
Frustration came out and I took different colors and splashed over the rock recklessly. Thus I killed a dying painting...I did not want to look at that painting...I removed the painting from the easel and placed over the bed....I felt really defeated and beaten..
I do not want to be beaten in painting...I took the paining back again and reworked on the rock. This time I used brush as if it's a pencil and got the some decent texture...
At the end of this emotional drama, I had my first ever texture painting and it was quite decent. I had heard about painters undergoing frustration and I just tasted for the first time...
Any way I am very happy that I saved my painting and also discovered a method to make texture painting...
MK Gandhi b'day
Today is Gandhi b'dy, only Indian national leader I respect...
Nothing more to say....:-(
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
This is very interesting article.
tonal painting
I did this Tonal painting..
http://www.inspiring-image.com/paintings/Tone/slides/IMGP5697.html
This painting is based on the one of my photo..
http://www.inspiring-image.com/rivervalley/Ista/slides/IMGP5495.html
FYI: What is Tonal painting?
There are many colors like read, green, blue etc...
Each of the color will many have tones between DARK to LIGHT.
Ex: There are many tones in between Dark red to Light red.
Similarly every color has many tones. This may help in understanding.
http://www.childoflight.org/mcc/colorcodeF.html
My painting is done using different shades of BROWN color.
"Happy families are all ..." -Tolstoy's
Today in my friend's car was playing Tolstoy's Anna Karenina audio book.
The book began with following sentence
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
In a society, people stick to same formula to be successfull and happy. So no wonder happy families look alike.
On the contrary, any off-formula life, may lead to very unique troubles.
"sold out" - poem
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went with money to buy
when it was not yet there for sale
later tried with more money
but it was holiday
took more than money
but shop had shut
then used myself in exchange
but it was already sold out
who is the looser?
me, dealer or the needy?
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|Copyright © Ramesh 2005|
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innocence v/s reasoning
My syllabus in India barely exposed me to Shakspeare's work.
Till I read the following I did not know how good Shakspeare's is...:-)
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The charm dissolves apace,
And, as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason
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Very poetic way of saying how day light's reality blows away nightly fantasies.
drawing and painting
"drawing does not draw me"..but "painting forces me to paint...like watchng the television..."
"favourite drink" - poem
It's a long time I wrote a poem.
Thoughts were fuming since some time..today while waiting for my laundry I wrote it on a paper..
Favourite drink
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drink that ended my quest
and fed my thirst
now is of little interest
drink that generated life
has dissolved my curious soul
drink, once of purpose
is now a compulsion
drink that stretched the life
seem to have diluted my own self
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|Copyright © Ramesh 2005|
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"wine, women, warmth.." - Darwin
"Knotted Tongues" book says Charles Darwin was a stammerer. I did not know this.
Book had a very interesting quote from Darwin;
"Wine, women, warmth, against our lives combine,But what is life without warmth, women, wine"
..so true...
India's Indipendence day....
Yestarday, Aug 15 was India's Indipendence day....
Me and my Chinese friend, J, were speaking about it.
J shocked me by saying "China celebrates their Independence day.."
I said "Yes, everybody have their own definition for liberty .
Even no more having to be compulsively nice to somebody could be defined as liberty"
".....can see through women...."- Groucho Marx
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot" - Groucho Marx
This is fascinating quote I read more than 10 years in 20 year old Reader Digest's magazine...
This great quote can be intrepreted in many ways, and this is all about that quote...
Me and my Chinese friend were trying to decipher this quote.
Chinese friend said "my interpretation is men can never understand women and probably vice versa."
Me responded, "If one can see through something, it means its TRANSPARENT. When something is transparent you are NOT seeing it; instead you are seeing what is on the other side of it. So, to see through woman, her body should be TRANSPARENT, and viewer misses the beautifull woman body itself. Do not a man miss something if he can not see the body? "
Chinese friend said "..the according to your theory even women can say same about the men.. " yes they can..
So, men do not want to see throught women because they miss her body.
Similarly, women does not want to see through men...
chaos in life
If hair were to quantify the amount of chaos in life., bald men will have most stable mind & life.
No wonder, love always follows bald men, because it makes practicle sense...:-)
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