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Picture View  Artist:Magunta Dayakar Someone asked me..” Why you are teaching painting is such a serious way? ” I told him…” It’s understanding the beauty of life. ” ”Beauty of life ! … I don’t understand. ” he said ”Beauty of life means understanding God…” I told him. ”What is the connection between God and painting? I don’t […]

Forest Light Artist:Magunta Dayakar  ”I will devote my life to paintings. One day I will become a great artist. ’’ he said with confidence.   ” Once you become a great artist…what you will do after that? ” I asked him.   ” I will earn lots of money by selling my paintings. ”  

I Paint all landscapes from Imagination. I am not interested in working from nature or from photographs. I feel both of them restrict my freedom to interpret nature. I always enjoy creating nature from my imagination. A Piece of Land in the Forest       Artist:Magunta Dayakar  I will start painting with value plan,

Some artists paint from life, some others work from photographs and some paint from imagination. Which is the best approach among these, to create life in paintings? Or all these approaches equally good ? Landscape                    Artist:Magunta Dayakar This is really a big issue for so many art students and artists all over the world. Many

 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