Tangled Butterfly

I saw these colored zentangle pens online and had to buy them. What's better than a black/white tangle? A colored one. :) These just open up so many doors of inspiration.

Butterflies are just beautiful tiny pieces of art in nature.

I tried to keep the tangles more on the geometric side while adding more detail to the zentangle. Here is a close up of the butterfly. Doesn't it look pretty? :) 

I also did another abstract one with just the black pen. This one is more about just letting your mind direct the pen, the way it wants to. 

Turtle Love

My love for sea turtles began on a Snuba expedition in Maui. They were my favorite part of the day. They were just so peaceful... so zen like! They made the big scary ocean seem calmer. Fortunately our Snuba instructor managed to capture a good photograph of a sea turtle and as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to paint it. So, after a few months of procrastinating I got right on it.

This time I decided to take pictures along the way. I don't know about you, but I always enjoy seeing step by step progress of art being created.

I started with a 6x8 canvas and painted my background and got a rough sketch of the turtle on it.

 Then I painted in the turtle with the basic colors with lots of details to be still added. This is usually the most intimidating stage for me. All the work ahead is exciting and scary at the same time. :)

 I then added more detail to the shell and the face. Also added more color to the body. Slowly getting there...

This is my favorite stage in the painting... painting the eyes. As soon as the eyes are painted in, the painting almost comes to life!

Then whats left were the flippers and final touches. I re painted the background to make it more polished and added some small fish around the turtle to give it a sense of depth and size.

Voila! And of course I had to sign it. :) 

Sea Turtle - Acrylic on 6x8 Canvas

P.S : If anyone would like to own this piece of art, contact me. 

A glass of wine anyone?

This time I decided to go pencil. :)

Pencil sketching is how it all started for me. As a kid, I loved my pencils and learnt how to shade. I started by doing simple pencil drawings and then slowly learnt to analyse the light and shadow areas and make the sketch more life like.

Still Life Art is very intriguing. Bringing objects to life on paper is quite entertaining.

My next challenge is to be able to do portraits well. Portraits are far less forgiving. You have to get the proportions exactly right or you end up with a strange looking face!

I say... Challenge Accepted!

Genesis

I have always been interested in art... all sorts of it. I am dabbling in pencil sketching, acrylic painting at the moment. I have worked with other media before but acrylic seems to be my favorite right now. It is a very versatile and easy medium to work with.

I'm beginning to start producing some art work and I wanted to track my progress through this blog. Lets begin this exciting journey.  :)

I recently began incorporating Zentangle art into my paintings. I am in love with creating tangles. It exercises my creative brain and helps me get lost in the art. I really enjoy the fact that I can get extra painfully detailed in these paintings.

So, here we go...

Acrylic on Canvas 6x8

 The designs here are all my own. It makes me happy to see the way it turned out. Ill try to incorporate more colors in the next one. Here are some close ups.

Yes I know, there are a few mistakes. But I thoroughly enjoyed making this and learnt a lot in the process. :)