Glass painting using abstract desgins

The outline

Over this weekend I received a confirmed order to make a glass painting using abstract design. I really like making abstract designs and art forms as my mind can be free from any encumbrances when I make them. I can use techniques of my choice and create a painting that everyone likes.

The final piece

So, off I began. In a matter of a few minutes my hand was drawing the outline of what was to be my next art piece. Drawing the outline is the most fun part as it gives form and life to an otherwise simple glass piece. Soon, the layout was ready and I was keen to start pouring in colors.

Now my requester had made a unique requests, as all buyers do. She wanted more blue shades in the piece, a challenge I relish. Soon I was picking between turquoises and various shades of sky & dark blue not to mention the purples.

Finally as the sun was about to disappear behind the mountains my art piece was ready - with my signature on it.


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Breezer Bottle Art

Today it was the turn of a breezer bottle as a gift for my sister in law for her wedding. A few breezer down I began painting the glass bottles. Peeling off the labels was the fun part before the exercise began.

The first part was creating an outline of the design I wanted to create. Since I was planning to gift two, I had to be sure both looked identical. After a few creative hours I had the outline of the bottles ready. Just the outline alone looked so good that my husband was tempted to give them out even before I colored them! :)

Then came the part of painting the bottles - it had to be something bright and lively as that's my style. Out came the bright reds, the shiny blues and the dark red oranges for the hearts. A quick thought and poof I began my coloring.

In no time, I had a pair of brightly colored breezer bottles ready for gifting and a very happy to be wedded sister in law. 

Kejriwal is coming to Delhi!

Ghost - The Kejri Rider

With the election extravaganza hogging all TV channels I couldn't stay aloof. Since most of the channels were predicting a win by Kejriwal, I just decided to innovate. Kejri - The ghost rider.

Armed with a pen, a few pencil colors
lying on my desk and some free time up my sleeve I got drawing as I flicked through multiple channels waiting for my hubby to come home. I had to capture his flamboyant anarchist style of operation and his zest to win the chair. Above all, I had to capture his destroyer of all evil view!

Put together, I had the perfect Ghost Rider! Tax Man by profession, IITian by education, self declared Anarchist and a muffler lover by actions - ta' da'! Out comes the Kejri Rider. 

Out of the Box - Women Power

Last week, we had a competition at my office and the theme was Out Of the Box and the rule was that a shoe box had to be used for the competition. That got me and my hubby thinking on what was the best way to present an out of the box thought when it struck us - Women!

What a woman suffers/hopes inside the box

Women empowerment in India has got a new lease of life of late and it is a cause I deeply support being a girl myself and having been through the restrictions and hypocrisy that the society places on us. My view is that the restrictions that have been put on girls in India (and around the world) are simply unacceptable. Rape, dowry, household torture, and many other evils against a girl have  become a common theme in this part of the world and sadly the society accepts it as a routine and in some cases atrociously even faults the girl in question! After some research I figured, that even the western world was biased against women - Wimbledon paid lesser to female grand slam winners compared to men, Switzerland allowed women to vote only after 1971 and the US had never managed to elect a female president (proverbial glass ceiling) to cite a few examples!

Horrors against woman in the news (Pasted over the box cover)

However, now in India at least, the society and the government had started taking concrete steps towards women empowerment and safety. Basic amenities like toilets for girls to IT firms making strict rules regarding female employee well-being are some of the many changes being brought about. The perspective of the society is changing and women are being encouraged to go where no women had gone before. They are slowly coming out of the metaphorical box that the society boxes them in.

What a woman can achieve if the box is opened

I was really keen to capture this and support the cause of women empowerment. To reflect my views and display what a free woman, a woman outside the bonds of a box that the society imposes on her, can do. So this event provided a perfect opportunity to support the cause and reflect my views.

I got a Shoe Box, depicted all the horrors that a girl has to endure on of the box and around it, showing what a girl encumbered by the many restrictions that the society imposes has to suffer and silently endure. She cannot follow her dreams and is limited to those realms that are imposed on her by birth and not by deeds. However, when she is freed of these encumbrances (i.e. the girl is out of the box), she is free and can compete and even beat the best in the world. She is like a free bird, able to sail the highest mountains and dive into the deepest valley with gusto and pride.

The aim of my art was a small contribution towards reflecting my views and supporting the millions of girls around the world who still continue to endure. It is a cause that I will continue to support vigorously as am hopeful. Hopeful, that in my lifetime this bias against women will end and happy that I was a part of this revolution that will end a social evil that has lasted silently for eons gone by.