Author name: Magunta Dayakar

18th century great English painter Joshua Reynolds said ‘A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.’ He used to create light in his paintings for his composition requirements. Here the key lies …’ Creating the light for composition requirements.’ The same I did here, ‘ Creating Light for My Lightscape Compositions. ‘ Lightscape  […]

Landscape  Artist : Magunta Dayakar Every painting is a struggle, however experienced the artist maybe. Success comes rarely, most of the times it is dissatisfaction. Don’t call it a failure … it is dissatisfaction. That’s why whenever I started a painting I won’t think about how to finish it, just I will sail with it.

  View    Artist: Magunta Dayakar When an artist paints a picture, it has to achieve two things.(1) It should create an illusion for the Viewer, that he is a part of the scene.(2) At the same time he should feel what he is seeing has been painted by an artist.

Composition  Artist:Magunta Dayakar One day a young lady came to me. ” I want 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

Here… you see the magic of Composition. If the painting is composed well, every part of that painting will itself become a painting. I have divided one of my paintings ‘ The Evening ‘ into seven parts. All of these parts have become seven paintings. See them all here. This is the Power of Composition.

Why am I using that little bit of Red in my black and white paintings? … Many people are asking me this question. Me and Nature  Artist:Magunta Dayakar Here is my answer … my paintings don’t just have black and white. In between there are many values from darkest grey to lightest grey. If I