Water colour and Acrylic on paper

Another effort with the endlessly fascinating form of Ganesha. The soft colours have been done in watercolour and the bolder ones with acrylic.

A new project...sewing!!!

I have dabbled a lot in embroidery, have made cross-stitch samplers and a lot of flowers...sadly nothing to show.

This time, I am on a different track.......trying to stitch a dress for our little princess who turns two in a few days...

I found the material...and am going to keep things very very simple...

But after having promised myself that I would get her anything but a pink dress, I have gone and bought ....yep! PINK!!!

So here is the material..have got some lace too sinced the material is plain..it is (i guess) Sand crepe material and has a lovely sheen to it.

So watch this space for the finished product...:)

Kaaliyamardanam

Many of the very special people I have met while blog-hopping have asked me to put up more of my art/craft projects..

This is something I did before my baby arrived on the scene...needless to say, now-a-days, my time just flies by..so I have no idea when I will get the time to produce more of it's kind.

I am really interested in Hindu mythology and most of my work has been based on this.

This is just acrylic on normal chart paper.

The scene is Kaaliyamardanam, depicting the defeat of the Serpent Kaaliya by lord Krishna.

Window hanging

I am endlessly fascinated with Batik, unfortunately have not had any chance to do anything about it.

And another thing I absolutely love is mural art. So for this home-improvement excercise of mine, I decided to have a faux-batik border with something to remind me of mural art...

I love the bold colours. I have drawn Krishna and Rukmini, and the lovely clouds with the bold blue borders and a lotus.

Since I was using poplin to draw on , I used fabric colours. I am not very happy with the end results, but an active baby around trying to pull whatever she could reach, it took me longer than expected.

I will be making a few adjustments later on, but for now, I think this is okay to cover up the window.

My attempt at Home improvement - Window

Speaking of view from windows....

There was one window in the house that needed a cover-up very badly...Under an ancient air-conditioner,with the wires hanging from it looking out into the balcony, providing a view of the washing line and some things stored for repair...

I guess Nate Berkus would have extended the curtain rod over the balcony door to cover the window too. My friend who stays in a similar flat has got her window done that way and it looks really elegant..

But as this is not our home, and we are just tenants,making a change was not an option...

Ohhhh..did I mention that this is the first thing anyone would see when they entered our home? yeah this infamous window is in our living room....

So I did what I could to make that window look interesting with the resources at hand.... and between caring for my baby.I would say that it fell a bit short of my expectations, but I just wanted to cover it up ASAP. Maybe at a later date I will get round to modifying it. You can see the result for yourself.

Would dearly like your comments on the same.

A handmade gift - Wall hanging

This is a gift I made for a friend...she had written this lovely prayer that had stuck in my mind ..so I asked her to write it down for me, and I got to work...

I crumpled up the cloth and dyed it.Next I gave a wide border, with rough edges..then I drew the sacred heart.

Gave a decorative outline for the heart and the prayer.

Pencilled in the prayer...I wish I were a better hand at calligraphy...but I do not have the skill or the patience...

waited 24 hours for the whole thing to set....
Ironed the painting on the opposite side

And Gifted it to my friend on Easter day...

It may be short on finish, but it has `heart' in abundance. What say you?