December 2016

 Perfection! …Nowhere it exists. Nature itself is not perfect. It is order in disorder. I always try to feel my painting as a whole. If the whole is right… the parts of the whole are also right. Hard Slopes   Artist:Magunta Dayakar We work with the skills what we have. We feel dissatisfaction because we know […]

For a long time I tried to find an answer for this question. I didn’t get the answer. Through years of artistic growth, on one fine day, I got the answer. The answer is … Curves. Curves express beauty. All female forms are structured with curves. Male form does not have much of them. Observe…Everything

Perspective             Artist:Magunta Dayakar  Value is one of the key elements in picture making.In other way we can call it as light and dark. It’s agradation between highest light and extreme dark.Every color has a specific value in grey scale.Understanding Value is the key to successful painting. There is one saying, that .. ‘Value is more important

Sun Set  Artist:Magunta Dayakar I am coming to the term ‘Color as Value’. Hereeverybody feels a problem in learning stage. Every color is having some specific value in value scale. To understand, open a image editing software , such as Adobe Photo shop or Gimp. Turn colors into grey scale. Then you know the value

 Many art students try to work their paintings with a lot of detail. Amateur writers will use so many words to narrate an incident. Both are ineffective. Then they get puzzled on why they didn’t get the result they expected! The reason … lack of Simplicity. Green and Red       Artist:Magunta Dayakar Not only

Do you remember when you started to draw? I thinkit is a little bit difficult to remember when westarted to draw.Some day we began to scribble some pictures on paper. Usually those pictures might not be clear. But that day, really it would not matter to us. Just we love them. That love would give

”Sir, I am not getting this painting properly, something went wrong. I am not able to understand what it is? ” Mountain Village       Artist:Magunta Dayakar She has painted a landscape. In that landscape sky is the predominant area. The colors and tones which she used for the sky is not created the effects of sky.

Perspective is a very important subject every artstudent has to learn. Many art students try to ignoreit. Force              Artist:Magunta Dayakar They feel it’s a tedious subject and there is no fun and excitement. But once you learn the subject it will be fun to work with it. The results

Every color is beautiful in given circumstances; as an individual its only a pigment. To turn this pigmentinto light in your painting you have to understand the language of art. Studying just color theory is not enough. Color is inter connected to the tools of Composition.Composition is called Language of Art.  Flow            

Light in The Forest             Artist:Magunta Dayakar Every creative act start with questions. To understand any subject student has to get hundreds of questions.  Without questions answers won’t exist. Once he got the questions he has to try to find the answers. This is the only way to master any