Warli Krishna Series3

As I have mentioned in two of my last posts about the bulk order of cushion covers on which I was working. I have recently finished with it. The last month was totally dedicated to the themes requested by Rakhi for those cushion covers. Few of them had a theme Warli Krishna. Rakhi has got her home decor accessories and furniture shop called Spinning Wheel in Whitefield, Bangalore. Each stuff in her shop has got elegant, ethnic, traditional Indian elegance and unique feature on its own. I will post in detail about it soon :).
Today I am posting one of the cushion cover which I have painted with my lil warli Krishna :)

When I started with it I was totally clue less about how do I showcase my krishna on it?..... But as it progressed, I was totally in love with my ....Jhula jhule Nandlaala....Radhe Sang jhula jhule Nandlaala...:) 
At one side of cushion cover, warli Radha Krishna are celebrating the silence with nature. Where as the  other side has, warli Gopikas celebrating the tarpa dance with sound. It has got deadly combo of celebration with silence and sound :).
I have used stones for Krishna's morpankh and beads for Gopikas tarpa sticks.
I will post some more hand painted cushion covers with different themes soon.

I am linking it to Weekly stories of Colours Dekor, Paint Party Friday and ABC Wednesday: K is for Kinks.

Warli Krishna Series2

Valentine day is quite near.....Love is in the air..:)...So how can I miss my lil Krishna enjoying valentine fever without Radha...I have just tried to paint this Divine Couple with all my heart in warli style.

Now a days, Nickelodeon has stopped showing Little Krishna series on TV.  My daughter, Harshi and off course me, both of us missed Krishna so much that we  have ordered Little Krishna DVD from Flipkart ;). From today morning we have started watching whole series of it. I don't know, how come, but the love for Little Krishna gave me such a high dose of strength today, that I did many multitasking jobs today, watching Krishna DVD, making stuffed capsicum for guests, visiting one of my new friend for collecting her painting orders :).

I am mainly focusing on Radha and Krishna in this painting. I am trying to paint warli Radha here :). Warli boys and girls are doing tarpa dance surrounding Radha Krishna on the music of flute played by Krishna.This divine couple is symbol of love, togetherness, comfort, healing, hence I cannot think of any colour other than Red over here.

I have used acrylic colors, mirror bead and 3D-outlining glitter on off-white fabric.

Dimensions: 30cm H x 35 cm W
I am also linking this post in Patty's 'Red is for Love' post.

Boarder Effect on Traditional Warli

Hi friends :), Hope you all had a gr8 last weekend. I too enjoyed the weekend with some guest visiting our home last week. Currently busy in spending time with them. Hence I will put few words here and describe more about some of my past work. I always admire the simplicity and power behind it which Warli has got :). However, as I said creativity and imagination knows No boundaries- No Boarders. The work which I am going to share has major of traditional warli effect in it. However, I have tried to add the contrast boarder colors in it.

It has got traditional farming/ harvesting theme of warli. I wanted to explore the thought such as..."how just few colours at few place with traditional warli will effect". So I tried to put orange/brown contrast boarder in it. On top of it warli boys are running/ dancing tarpa.
I have tried contrast boarder concept with one more traditional warli theme.

In this painting warli girls are doing domestic works. Such scene occurs in warli life in a day when warli boys have gone out for work and warli girl taking care of babies, in-house duties etc. I have tried yellow-orange kinda contrast boarder effect on it. 
As of now, I have met some art lovers, some of them loved just traditional warli more, some of them loved the modern warli more. I hope with such mix of modern and traditional, art lovers from both the class will be satisfied :).
The painting is done on off-white color fabric with acrylic colors on it.
Dimension: 22cm H x 25 cm W
I am also linking this post on Patty's Colours Dekor blog post:). 

Warli Krishna Series1

Hello all :). Last weekend I visited my friend Francis's shop Colour Mantra to click the framed painting of mine. This was the long pending task in my mind since month, finally I was able to finish it of. As I promised in my one of the last post Tree of Life about coming back of my lil Warli Krishna :). Yes guys, my visit to Colour Mantra was for those clicks.

In this painting, Warli Krishna is sitting under a tree in different posture and playing a flute. A sequence of Warli girls and boys are playing Dandiya/ Dandiya Raas around him. 

About Dandiya- It is the traditional folk dance from Vrindavan, India. It is the featured dance of Navaratri evenings in Western India.

I have used peacock feather acrylic colors, mirror bead and 3D-outlining glitter for Krishna effect. 3D- outlining glitter is also used for warli girls' hairsticks and dandiya stick, to give a rich traditional effect.

The painting is drawn on off-white color fabric. All acrylic colors are used in it.
Dimensions: 30cm H x 35 cm W 

I would also like to share some framing gyan which I got from Francis :).

As shown in above pics, framing should be done with MDF kind of board at the backside. It should be framed such that the board at the back should be visible and appear at the back. We can see a small thickness projection appearing from side of the board. This increases longevity of frame and durability of paintings.
So friends did you enjoy Warli Krishna Raas Lila from my painting :)?
I am also linking up this the Patty's Colours Dekor post http://coloursdekor.blogspot.com/2012/01/weekly-story-64.html 
 

Colorful tarpa sequence

Hi everyone! I wish you all a very happy new year....Thank you all for showing all the love for my earlier start up paintings in last posts.

After a fresh X-mas vacation spent with my dear aai-baba at Mumbai, I have done this painting, as a start of this year. This has Tarpa dance as a theme decorated with women dancing on blue background and men dancing surrounding to it on red background. I love those red and blue contrast color combo. I have decorated boarder with mirror. However one can go framing it with this boarder or just a plane red/ blue boarder framing on top of mirror work (hiding mirror boarder).

Paintings is done on off-white color fabric using acrylic colors.
Dimensions: 26cm H x 22 cm W 

Warli with Gurjari

Being a handicraft lover, I keep visiting such places. While visiting such place some days ago, I came across some Gurjari paintings which has mirrors to brighten up its look.Such gurjari paintings always attracted me, as it has a colorful appearance. This made me think why not do such things with warli.

This painting is done on a light orange color fabric with its contrast colors such as dark brown, green and bright yellow on top of it. Center of painting cover Tarpa dance theme. I have used mirrors to highlighten the drum of Tarparkar (person playing with drum) and flags/ sticks carried by boarder warlis. I have used acrylic colors in it.

Dimensions: 42cm H x 28 cm W

Surya (Sun)

My 3.5 years daughter Harshi is inspiration for the most of my paintings. These days, she loves watching sunset from our apartment terrace. Hence this theme with Surya/ Sun in warli has clicked me.

Surya is the source of life and symbol of happiness. According to vastushastra, it is auspicious to put such high energy paintings in front of the main entrance of the house.

I have drawn this painting using acrylic colors on canvas.

Dimensions: 25cm H x 25 cm W (10"H x 10" W)