Had started this blog 3 and half years ago - so that i could share my paintings with friend and family.however life got busy.finding time for painting became a dream. my love for painting obviously didn't reduce.so here i am -hoping to update this blog more often with my paintings and related stories.
one of my favorite pastimes is to trawl for good reading material related to techniques and material related to the drawing and painting.I will be sharing the interesting tidbits related to this craft on this blog.you would wonder why am i refering to art as craft -watch out for another blog on that one.
JMW Turner is one of English painters i admire-especially for the kind of depth and distance he manages to convey in his water scapes.was adequately intimidated when i discovered that he was a professor of perspective at one of the London universities!!
If you start figuring out the chemical composition of colors/pigments -you would realise how well you need to know chemistry in order to be able to paint well.don't believe me -try googling-"what is the right proportion of linseed and turpentine to be used in oil painting" -you will get the answer.
Pigments incidentally have played a very significant role in the economics and history of art.Artists would often pledge their finished paintings to color pigment merchants - as they could not afford to pay for them. Even today -if you are buying artist quality color box - and you get it cheap , then you can be sure that the box does not contain alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue-the most expensive of color pigment.
Seurat -one of the french post impressionist painter -believed that knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art .He set out to define this language using lines ,color intensity and color scheme -he called it chromoluminarism.he is the one who devised the technique of pointillism -which served as the trigger for neo impressionism -the art movement after impressionism which was clearly defined by artists searching for new methods of painting.
working on a few paintings right now -will be uploading in a week or two
