Been hit by the blues!

I wondered how amazing it would be to take a walk through the green woods surrounded by the morning mist. As the mist is clearing away I find this majestic bird preening itself on a tree and our eyes meet.....Hello beautiful blue!

I have been hit by the blues but not the sad kind. The color Blue seems to be present everywhere - Blue skies, the national flag, cotton candy flavored ice-cream and one of my good friends even has the Hindi translation of the word blue in her name. Lord Krishna's skin was supposedly a shade of blue and the peacock always seems to be present around Lord Krishna, as he carries its feather on his person. It also happens to be the national bird of India.This is one powerful color! A tribute to my favorite color using water colors for the first time ever. I did not have the best of brushes working for me and all this coupled with the fact that I was painting after almost 3 years resulted in the real blues hitting me a lot while I was working on this piece. Here goes...

And the cow jumped over the moon!

Well I tried with this one... The sight of cows grazing peacefully in green meadows always holds a happy,peaceful and relaxed image for me. I am sure most people would kill for the kind of life that is portrayed in the California Happy cow commercials. I used 2HB, 4B and 6B pencils. I am going to impose a temporary halt to this phase of barnyard animals with Miss Cow here. I hope to post more colorful sketches or paintings in the future. I hope you enjoy viewing this sketch. As for me I am off to buy me some Laughing Cow cheese :-)

A note of thanks!

Tons of thanks to all of you who have commented on my works and emailed or communicated via other means your thoughts and interpretations of my sketches and paintings and also areas for improvement. Most of you liked the sketch of the dog and I loved some of your comments that I have listed below:

The dog looked sad and seemed very emotional.

The dog is feigning a sad face to get a treat.

It is a golden retriever in one of its quieter moods.

I agree that it looks like it would break down any moment.... One of my friends also made me understand that most of my animals seemed a bit restricted - by a leash as in the case of the dog and the horse and the bird seemed to be just sitting there instead of flying. I promise to sketch animals with more cheery outlooks. I loved hearing the comments. Personally I thought that the horse was a better sketch than the dog, but I am glad that the dog was more popular with everyone. Please do keep the comments rolling in...Thanks again!

Barks and Neighs!

I have never sketched too many animals before. Better late than never - keeping that in mind I tried my hand at doing these. I sketched the horse this afternoon. I found the photo of a beautiful brown horse on the net and the dog was after a friends dog. These are my first ever sketches of dog (with the exception of the dog that I drew for a painting competition when I was in the 3rd grade)and a horse..And its all here for you guys to view and comment.

Polly wants a picture....

I sketched this parrot after watching an Eddie Murphy movie that had a scene of a little kid with a colorful parrot that spoke. I had 2 green parrots growing up and it was a wonderful experience. I have not been able to locate the paintings that I did of my parrot in his various moods, so I wanted to do another one again (after all these years) and this is the result. I brought in the 4B along with the usual 2HB, 6B and HB pencils.