My journey through science of painting ! How I started to draw, how I had begun painting and how I faced continuous failures, there was no help available to me. Frustration … depression … struggle and pain. A sea of misery. How I had come out of that struggle, how I had come to know […]

HOW TO FINISH A PAINTING? My first book is ‘How To Start A Painting And How To Plan It?’, It focuses on the importance of planning a painting with Value, Color and Composition. This is the follow-on book. Although this book is self-contained, I suggest whoever is reading this book to read the first book

Like Elements of nature there are a few elements in art also. Those elements can be played with using principles (tools) of Composition. Whatever art form you may work with, this knowledge is a must. If not, your work looks like a work of craft rather than a work of art. Western great artists work

It’s only one line where I am trying to find the beauty of life and where it lies. Beauty and problem lie side by side. If you remove the problem then beauty only exists. Few human beings who try to live always creatively , sometimes suffer from emptiness. The reason… they want to do so

Many people are asking me …’ what is the language of art?’ It’s not possible for me to answer everyone individually. Here I am explaining about it. ‘Every subject has its own language. For example if you want to learn English, you should start with alphabets, words, sentences, grammar and like that. Once you study

Every artist however skilled he is, always gets doubts on Composition and Design at least once in awhile, if not every day. The nature of the subject is like that. If it’s easy to understand, we won’t be talking about it. One of my students asked me…. ” Sir. You are saying Composition is more

”Are you promoting your work now!?” Some people who know me from a long time asked me with surprise. I was not surprised by their question. People who know me well would ask that question after seeing what I am doing now. Since two months I have been writing continuously on my blog, posting on

There is a wrong notion in many of the art students and art lovers that realistic artists are able to paint only realistic paintings, Abstract artists will be able to work only abstract paintings … Similar notions are that oil painters are capable of working only in oils, water colorists only in water color and

To paint means to create movement. Movement is life. Life is precious. You could not buy a life for a dying person, however rich you maybe. To create the movement on canvas is an artist’s work. If he captures movement, life follows it. Then his work will survive forever. To capture life, an artist needs

Whenever I start to paint my imaginary landscapes, I feel that I am playing chess with a grand master who has never been defeated. That grand master is no one … it’s my canvas. Every moment I use all my visual imagination skills to win over that. I use composition as my weapon along with