All about my mother...

First time it has happened that a movie moved me n motivated me to paint...saw this wonderful movie a couple of days back...the movie was called 'All about my mother'...won't disclose the story here wud leave the suspense for u to watch...wud just say that its about a mother who faces similar situations over and over again but even then she doesn't give up...
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She is caught up in these chains...she tries to find hope in each and everything that fate does with her...tries to cope up with it...but they cease to exist...she is injured...deeply wounded...but even then she wants to move on...even then she goes towards the light...to get away from this darkness...but wud her efforts help...she doesn't know...she just knows that she has to move on...if not for her then for those she cares for...and she does...
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this time i tried for a different medium...did the base sketch on my table with a marker :D (scribbling is fun :P...plus u can erase it all with ur deodorant ;)...n obvsly photoshop had to creep in for the final touch :P...
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hope u like it :)

Ram...

Another boring lecture and another deity avatar :)...
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This time its none other than Suryavanshi Shri Ram...(man i need to study!!!)
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I guess no explanation is required for this...simple sketch n then photoshop...Seeta and Laxman are surely round the corner :)

Hanuman

Well...when u have no interest in what the prof is saying...m nothing better to do...u infact want to kill urself 'coz u can't stand the prof ne more...such things come out :P ;)....
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This is another avatar of Hanuman ji...so 2nd one in the line (man...m obsessed with Gods :P)..
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No explanation...just a pen sketch n coloured in photoshop...

Dvibahu...

I've always talked about a character called "Dvibahu"...infact I even sign my artwork by the same name...Dvibahu is me...and this is what it looks like...

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The first time I made it was when I was in 10th standard...after that it had undergone a number of changes...will have to dig in my stuffs for the 1st version...

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No paint...only photoshop this time...

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So here's Dvibahu for u...

Dahleez...

U can call this the second part of Chakshu...'coz the topic and the feeling with which i made this is the same...this one's again a painting with minimum photoshopgiri...got the idea of it while was teaching in my LA class :P...
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Here's something bout it...
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She's a girl...peeking through her window...but isn't able to cross the doorstep or "dahleez"...she thinks she's locked inside...she thinks the door is latched...so makes little effort to break free...she thinks she's content with what she has...and leaves everything to destiny...she doesn't even speak for she fears being noticed...she has formed a shield of all her memories around herself...sweet memories like her first bike...her barbie doll...her teddy bear soft toy...her family...her first crush...her love...and she's too afraid to loose all these...so she fears to explore the world outside her door...
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but in this...she isn't able to see that the latch isn't hinged...the door just needs a little push and it'll break open...the world is out their waiting for her...she just needs to be brave enough...leave her past behind and not worry too much about the future...spontaneity is the best thing about life...u can't always worry about everything and forgo what you could have had...what could have been the best moments of your life...
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so give the door a push...just a little one will do...cross the "dahleez"and see what this world has there for you...

Chakshu...

This painting is about a girl who sees this world from a different viewpoint...who has just a small opening to reality and doesn't want anymore of it...She likes to live in her own world...think about her own dreams...she is hiding herself...but keeping an eye on the part of the world that matters to her...or does it...she doesn't know...but likes to think that it does...She doesn't want to show herself to this world because she is too scared...scared of what people will think...scared of what they'll do to her...will she be able to handle this world all by herself...she doesn't know...she has faced a lot and doesn't want to face more of it...she wants peace...for this world to leave her alone...not talk about her...she wants to be invisible...but she can't...the world won't let her be...

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'Chakshu' is just an appeal to all the people who just gossip about anyone and everyone without thinking what effect that'll have on the ones who already have a lot to face and cannot take it anymore...So please...try to understand and help rather than enjoying their case at supper...

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And for all those who have to face this world...you have to come out...this world talks only as long as you let them...and even if they do...it doesn't matters...the only thing that matters is you...

Koi khas nahi...

After a long time it has happened that someone's thoughts have influenced n made me think and paint...the thoughts portrayed in this painting are not mine...but somehow i m related...

Not much to say about it though...i guess the original lines which Neha wrote wud describe it best...So here goes...

Koi pooche kaun hun 'main'
to kah dena koi khas nahi...
ek dost hai kachchi pakki si
ek jhooth hai aadhi sachchi si...
jazbaat ko dhake parde se
kahani hai ek achchi si...
jivan ki achchi saathi hai
jo dur nahi aur pass bhi nahi...
koi pooche kaun hun main
to kah dena 'koi khas nahi'...

Hope i was able to paint what you wanted to say...Thanks :)

Ganesh ji..

Lord Gansehji...lambodar, vighn harak, siddhi vinayak, ek dant and many more names of lord ganeshji are existant...I used to visit this fabulous temple, Khajrana, in Indore with my parents...have always asked for favours from the lord :P...may it be a new bicycle, a good rank in school results, selection in IIT or nething else...Lord ganesha has given it all...So here's my tribute to the almighty Lord Ganeshji may his blessings besow upon all...

Now a few things about the artwork...I had to revert back to photoshop for this one...this sketch was made just by chance...I always used to make these curves wherever I found some blank space and one day i noticed that unknowingly i had made ganeshji...so immediately took out my sketch book and made a bigger and refined version of the same...

Hope u like it :)

Hanuman ji

Another attempt to create my avatar of a hindu deity...This time its my favourite...Lord Hanuman ji...

This is a scene from Ramayan where Hanuman ji tears off his chest to show that Shri Ram and Godess Sita reside in his heart...

This time I have used a combination of paints and photoshop...photoshop coming in play only for editing a few things and adding a few shades...

I haven't changed his basic form...have just made it in a slightly different style...

Grahan...

Another book, another experience...but this was different...this stayed with me even after finishing the book...i must say Paulo Coelho is hell of a writer...The simplicity of his language and complexity of thoughts don't let you leave the book...

"Brida" was all about dreams...the choices we have...the boundations we realize at the last moment...the helplessness we face...and in the end the decision we have to make...fabulous...

I could really relate to the "Magus" in it...he knows what he has to do...but that's not what he wants to do...he isn't a superhuman...no...he has the wisdom of knowledge but its burden is far more than its absence ever was...just think what u'll feel if u knew everything but weren't able to do nething about it due to ur own boundations...due to the shell u urself built once around u...u are in this different dimension where u have only responsibilities 'coz everytime ur "soulmate" comes along u can't have her 'coz u r too scared of the consequences...u r not afraid of the light but of the shadows it casts...

I'm sure that u'll relate to one of the characters...the helpless teacher "Magus"...the silent watcher "Wicca"...the innocent lover "Lorens" or the confused student "Brida"...or even all of them...I found a reflection of a bit of my own self in all of them...

As its evident the book brought with itself a series of thoughts...it flodded me with emotions...and the painting "Grahan" (not 'eclipse' but 'to take') was the consequence...I tried my hands on actual paints after a long long time...no photoshop in this...only poster colours and markers...I have tried to put a bit of all the characters in it...the rage and protective shell of Magus...the task of accepting wisdom of Brida...the beauty of Loreans...the silence of Wicca and more importantly the Void...the emptiness which each of them experiences...

Hope u all like it :)

Freedom...

I'm tired of this world....all the constraints....one's life depends on limitless number of factors, only a few of which are in one's hands....sometimes I wish I had wings so that I could fly away whenever and wherever I want....away from everything...just to be alone....just to have some silence....just to have some peace.... Sometimes I wish that this world should just stop!!!...that everyone should forget everything and live just for the moment...without any bondages...

I have a desire...a desire to break free of all the shackles of this world...a desire to be independent...a desire to have FREEDOM....

I guess a lot of people would have the same feeling....but they are too busy and too bound to do something about it....lets just wish someday I'd be able to do something....

"I thought why wasn't SOMEONE doing something???.....then I realized that I was that SOMEONE"....