Art of Fernando Botero- Its different!

Botero, the Colombian artist once said, “In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation."

I was indeed pleasantly startled after I came across one of the renditions of the famous MonaLisa, by the famous Colombian artist Botero who is famous for his art style which incorporates inflated human figures (It almost feels that one has put an inflation tube on the canvas and puffed up the objects! :))

Anyhow, I thought of sharing the captivating rendition of The MonaLisa by Botero:




P.S. It so happened that I came across Botero's work while I was intrigued by the knowledge that the renowned Hollywood star and Rocky-fame, our lovable Sylvester Stallon painted and exhibited in a gallery which also exhibited Botero's work!

Prints of my Art - FineArt America

Hi,
I have recently set up account on Fine Art where prints of my work are available.
Please check it out at http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/shilpi-goenka.html?tab=artwork

Photoshop revisited

Hi,
thought of sharing a digital work of abstract art, which I created using adobe photoshop few days ago. It seemed so long since i created something in photoshop. Hope you like it. The title of this goes "the romance of all seasons"

Gum-Wrapper Art---- Really!!

Hi,

Art is not confined to any particular medium. This is so true indeed and interestingly, the beauty of art lies in its expression through so many mediums, most of which were not conceived by many people to be able to create art, in the first place. So this brings me to post a picture of a mini-art work i created, just out of the blue, after chewing the gum to my hearts' content. Have a look at this lovely little fish i created :)


Looks more better!:)


It turned out to be appealing and a good use of the silver-colored wrapper of chewing gum which normally lands up in the trash bin. Little did I know that most of the times, what we think is novel and not tried out before,turns out to be already existing. It so happened that I found a person who actually works on creating art through such wrappers. I was really surprised, in part, because, atleast someone else thought of putting the ordinary wrapper to creative use. Sharing the link as well. Do have a look at what is the creative outcome of a simple paper, which many of us discard as being of no use!!

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhall15/site/?/home/

My Collage painting

Hi,
I thought of sharing the collage painting which I had done( and about which I mentioned in my about me section in my blog). I am glad I had a digital picture of that painting which is memorable for me. Hope you like it. Please feel free to drop in your comments.



I would like to state that when I did this work, I did not have the idea of woman liberation exactly in my mind. This interpretation was given by a good friend of mine, when he saw the picture which I had posted on facebook long time back. But yes, I had some idea in my mind while doing it, but it is so true that a piece of art is open to interpretations by the viewer.

Oil Painting live demo by Deborah Ridgley!

Hi all,
I am so glad to be posting again. I would like to share few pics while I had attended a live demonstration of oil painting by a local artist, Deborah Ridgley, which was held at Kenwood Plaza Art Store, Cincy. Infact it was the first time I ever saw oil painting demo from a live model. (well, i gotta know that the model was currently a Fine arts student at DAAP, UC, Ohio). Posting some of pics from the demo. It was a 3 hour long demo and I was really glad to see the painting process and learn.


Final painting from the demo!
Artist at work!
Explaining techniques

Acrylics Demonstrated!

Hi,
I thought of sharing few pics I clicked while I had been working on one of my acrylic paintings. I would like to share few pics which show the stages of a painting. I have to admit I painted this piece and gave it away to my close friend for whom I painted it but every time I had this feeling that something was missing from the painting, so I took it away from him and retouched it (should i say :)) and added that tint of life by adding oranges and lilac of sky and correcting it. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I am also planning to submit this piece for the upcoming Clifton Cultural Arts Festival in Clifton in August!





(P.S. I really do not like the way images get uploaded in blogger, so i thought of using the edge of photoshop to give a better view of stages of a painting! hope u like it. The numbers on images denote the steps in order!)