October 2016

The overwhelming response for ‘ Secrets of Creative Thinking from Artist’s Point of View ‘ is moving the deep layers of my inside. It has inspired me to write more about it.   Landscape        Artist : Magunta Dayakar  In present times, everyone needs little or more creative thinking to survive in jobs, professions and business. A […]

Since the age of twenty, I have been surviving last forty five years as an artist and novelist; In between I also had a brief stint in acting and directing movies.  So much of life, so many experiences… misery, pain, depression, joy, pleasure, excitement … finally a feeling of elation.   Under the Trees     Artist : Magunta Dayakar But, some

For a realistic painter creating light in paintings is the ultimate challenge. To create light in paintings the artist has to understand the intricacies of Value, Color and Composition. But that’s not enough, there is more to it than that. Morning Light         Artist : Magunta Dayakar The 18th century great English painter Joshua Reynolds said ‘A

Many people, art students and some artists think, to do abstract painting they don’t need to learn drawing and other skills of traditional painting. It’s an absurd notion. It’s like jumping into the deep waters without learning swimming. Imagine, what’s going to happen then. The same will happen to anyone who wants to do modern

How to teach Painting to adults who want to learn it as a hobby? A very big question! Usually they won’t even have basic drawing skills, but they want to paint beautiful paintings like professionals within a few days! How is it possible on earth? But some of the art teachers try to meet their

                  My Mother    Artist : Magunta Dayakar               Every subject has its own words. If a student wants to study the subject in depth, he has to understand those words well. The subject of art also has its own words. To the art student they are confusing ; so he will ignore them instead of

When camera clicks a scene, a figure or anything; it is just capturing its appearance. Put this aside for a moment. Sometimes when we are deceived or exploited by persons close to us, they may be relatives, friends or business partners; we will be advised by others that we should have been more careful about studying

I had been teaching art for nearly ten years. Some students had learned it for hobby and some others to become professionals. They all asked one question…” How to be a good artist?” Always my answer is … ” Be on the right path,” ” What is that right path? ” ” …like any other

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Some people advise to others …” Think creatively.” but they won’t explain how to think creatively. There are many books about ‘ Creativity‘; but they won’t give you the clear map of how to achieve it. Arts, Industry, Business, Technology, Education, politics … everyone want to be creative but don’t know how to achieve it.

(The language of art is very difficult tounderstand so I am explaining it through somestories and narrative explanations to make thestudent understand it. If the student knows what needs to be learntthen the second step starts with how to learn.) I will start this column with an interesting incident in history, which happened in early