Andamans - II

It is soooooooo frustrating when one after another the paintings just do not live upto your desire. Well here is the third attempt to the same Painting as one before. I have tried to correct for the perspective somewhat but the but the sky - the wash seems impossible to me so far. Every time I try something comes up that is just beyond me. This is the third page with the same scene that I have tried. I think I will just wait, take a few deep breaths and try to pick up - painting skies from YouTube or somewhere and try again....

Andamans - Nov 2012

This is a beautiful memory from my visit to Andaman Islands in Nov 2012. A long way to go before it can come anywhere close to the sight we saw and the time spent but then the place has made a special place in my mind and I wanted to put it down in watercolours - will try once again - let me see if I can get any better.... To all the critics - The picture I have made is too centered, the sky too boring but then I am just starting... ...and these bloody cauliflowers....

Blue-throated Barbet

I had gone for one of those birding trips and this bird was very high on my agenda to capture. It so happened that I saw a Starling and was testing my camera settings and clicking photographs. Since the light was low I ramped up the exposure levels and suddenly without any warning this bird flew in and sat just a few feet from me. I did not touch my settings and shot away to glory. I realised that many of my 'expected wonder shots' turned out to be horribly over exposed. Since I had shot in RAW - I could salvage a few shots. What a bird and what a memorable moments I spent there. This is the copy of that beautiful bird in watercolors.

Sambar Doe...

I was birding in Sukhna Lake with a couple of friends. Just as we approached one corner of the lake we startled a 'Sambar Doe' that ran a couple of steps and then stopped to check us out. What a site it was - the sun fell on its face and lit it up. The forest was quite dense and the picture I got is one of my prized one. Ofcourse this painting does not do any justification to that timeless moment we stared at each other - but then here is the moment....

Prime Roses

It was an idle day and was really looking forward to do something. I took up membership of ArtTutor - a wonderful website where a lot of effort is put on teaching different mediums. I have just tried to copy the painting and miss the fluidity the watercolour that was created there. I believe that I have done what a school kid would have  done after seeing something beautiful and wanted to copy it. All the same the effort is an effort and here it is.

Poppy

I was given to understand that drawing a Poppy was perhaps the easiest in watercolors. It seemed indeed so when I saw numerous paintings being done on youtube and so many other sites. Well here goes my one attempt. I still do feel that the natural flow that I see at so many other sites is missing but then this is what it is...

Well it does deserve a second chance - maybe some other day...