February 2018

He is a top executive in a multinational company, middle aged. One day he came to me with his wife, to enrol her in my art classes. In general view she would be considered as a good looking lady. He started to talk about her, her abilities, her qualities, her skills … ! The way […]

  I met her in one of my friend’s house. She told me that she is an artist. She did few paintings also. Now she is not finding time to paint. I listened silently. She invited me to her house to see her paintings. For courtesy sake I said ” Sure. ”  Later I forgot

  One day a young lady came to me. ” I wan to learn Modern art. ” She asked me. ” What do you mean by Modern art? ” I asked her. ” … modern art … modern art … ” she didn’t know what to say. Simply she was bewildered. I waited for her

  She is running an art gallery since twenty years. I knew her. In last fifteen years we met only two times. Recently she called me. I was surprised by her call because i am not a gallery artist and she would not call anyone without a purpose. For few minutes, we talked formally, then

  One day two old women came to me. Both were in their early sixties.   They told me that they want to learn painting.   I told them ” it’s O.K. But you shouldn’t start painting directly, first learn drawing. ”   They were surprised and one of them asked me, ” Why don’t

  Recently I met one young woman just by an accident. Usually I would not meet many people because rarely I attend events. She told me that she had studied  ‘six weeks art appreciation course’ in London and is now writing reviews on artists’ work. I listened and left. Occasionally I read her reviews in

  A small or large unit of shape or color repetition is Pattern. We can see these patterns on Architectural buildings, Persian Carpets, Decorative ornaments and temple structures.    When we do our art work understanding these patterns and using them in a right manner will help us to create powerful visuals. Vincent Van Gogh

 Here I am not going for theoretical discussions or definitions, rather I would like to give simple clarifications.  We all knew what is Line.  When we were children, we used to draw vertical and horizontal lines in our exercise book to put our writing in order.  As children, even though we didn’t know what is

    Color. Honestly I am telling, It always confuses me. Whatever I learned It still remains a mystery to me, like John Carlson’s  ‘ Landscape Painting ‘ book. Paul Strisik said in his ‘Capturing light in oils’ book.’ I read Carlson book many times. But still something remains which I do not understand.”  

  Here is one example…   There is a room. Dimension of that room, Say it is 100 square feet or some thing. You call it a space. In that space you want to put few objects, may be seven or eight. So you arranged these objects in that space. Light is the key. Without