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 :)