A Riot Of Colours

From our childhood days we've been told to colour inside the lines and we've meticulously followed those words by trying our best not to let even a stray line fall outside. But growing up I realised its ok to colour outside those prescribed lines. Sometimes you donot even need those lines to paint or colour.
It's the same with things we do in life. Not everything can go as we might have planned but it can still result in something better.
If each new experience was to become a colour then the brush strokes would eventually fill the canvas to form a beautiful painting.

Peace


The second in my series of Buddha paintings this 18"x 24" canvas is the largest I have painted till date.
One look and its obvious that this is also the most colourful one.
Although the colour selection was random the major orange areas have lined up diagonally and the blue areas in the opposite way.
My favourite thing about this painting is Lord Buddha's face . The beautiful shape ,the closed eyes and the almost smiling lips , everything about this work equals satisfaction.
The evolution


And as Claude Monet said
                   Colour is
                my day-long
          obsession, joy and torment. 

A size evaluation 😉


Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 7, 2018 at 5:13 AM

    waw!!!! awesome

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  2. deepsMarch 7, 2018 at 9:01 PM

    the write up, very frankly, captured my attention than the spilled colors of your creative imagination

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    1. Megha ShajiApril 24, 2018 at 12:58 AM

      Are the write-ups taking the spotlight instead of my paintings?

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