Hide and seek with Krishna.. how He plays with me..

Krishna made me do this!                    I started on this project for Ram and Suma as they had wanted a Zentangled Ganesha but the flute just landed in His hands and the peacock feather just settled to crown His head! It was like Krishna wanted to be part of the art and wanted me to find Him in those lines. The paper was spray painted with blues and yellows - a leftover from an earlier project ;) I used black paint pens to fill in the details of this flute playing Ganesha..or a modak eating Krishna... Oh I Love Him so - the games He plays and the way He makes me smile.. no.. i am not losing it.. just gaining it ;)

Psychedelic Ganesha

Sometimes I just draw things without a plan and I dont know if that is a good thing or bad! This one started off with a rough sketch of Ganesha, then the designs added in black sharpies and then the colors from Viggy's highlighters. I finally stopped because I ran out of patience! It is one of my pyschedelics!

Seeing Him in 2 mediums

Charcoal or Oil? I got mixed reviews. Wonder if it has anything to do with color and B&W or with my own skills :)

Personally both are my favorites. Though I wish I was first in line when He was distributing patience; knowing the time I spent on both of them, I am secretly happy. As He reclines with the background seemingly blurring and the baskets of flowers (or kumkum if you want!); life is good!

Music in Painting

The mother made way for her son :) that is a riddle only someone who knows what is "behind" this painting would understand!


In an earlier blog I had mentioned about wanting to attempt multiple Ganeshas on one canvas http://pushyram.blogspot.com/2009/08/phase-of-ganeshjis.html
I worked over these "ashta Ganapathis" playing different musical instruments using acrylic paints over canvas. 2 of the Ganeshas - the flute and veena are inspired from pics off the internet; the guitar and the Nadaswaram were concocted from my imagination; while the rest are inspired from statues. I enjoyed painting the backgrounds in various textures and patterns and at one point Ram thought that, that was it. It was tempting to leave it like that in vivid colors but Ganesha had already removed the obstacle and made up my mind :)