knife painting - Skies of Spain

This is a re-creation of Leonid Afremov's skies of Spain. It was done using palette knife on handmade paper. Since it was not done on canvas, it looks quite different from the original.

Master Hu's garden

Saw this on youtube and tried to recreate it. 

Quickfix Cone flowers

As I said, it was a quick fix, done in about 20 minutes, using soft and oil pastels. Although the 20 days are over, i did think I should upload this. 

Day 20 - Romancing the rain

It's pretty late in the night, but I've worked on this for about three hours, so had to upload. The original is a knife painting by Leonid Afremov. I have recreated it on handmade paper, using brush too in some places. This is the end of my 20 day initiative, as I'll be getting rather busy with academics. But if any new painting gets done, I will post here. Let's hope I get the time for it. 

Day 19 - Warm winter morning

Watercolour on paper. 

Day 18 - Cityscape, Cloudy night

The inspiration for this was nothing else but the cloudy night sky. Soft Pastels on paper. 

Day 17 - The Guitarist (Knife Painting)

I have just started knife painting, this is my second one, and the one I did on my own, not in painting class, so it's roughish. The original, 'Guitar and Soul' is brilliantly done by Leonid Afremov.  Knife painting is done using palette knives. Oil on canvas. 

Day 16 - At Sea

Saw this in a book. Colour pencil on paper. 

Day 15 - Flowers

I like orchids, and I found a picture of these flowers online, that look like orchids. Oil pastel on paper. 

Day 14 - I got wings!

Water colour on paper, certain highlights on the butterfly with colour pencil. (I was slightly with the newly adopted kittens, so its slightly rough on the edges.)

Day 13 - Forest Glade

Ever since the space painting, I was looking for an opportunity to work on a black background again. A forest glade is an open space in the forest, and due to less trees in that space, there is sunlight coming in, which makes it stand out from the thicket of trees around - thus the black background was perfect. This was done using soft pastels on black paper. 

Day 12 - Little Shoulders

Micro felt tip pen, and water on paper. 

Day 11 - space painting (Nebula)

There are a bunch of youtube videos showing how to paint space using soft pastels. This was done viewing many such videos, and nebula pictures, this does not depict any one nebula. Soft pastels on black chart paper. 

Day 10 - Rocky Beach

Colour pencil on paper. A brush used to spread water on specific parts 

Day 9 - Riverside park in Kashmir

I was running out of ideas for this blog, so a friend suggested I try to recreate the pic he took. You can see it here - http://instagram.com/p/Z0d0rwENzs/ . This was done using poster colours, on 130 gsm paper. I've used coloured pencil for some highlights, as even my smallest brush was toobig for them. 

Day 8 - The Overlooking Chinar Tree

I personally loved making this one, I've always wanted to do chinar in colour, I've done in with pencil shading before. This is oil on handmade paper, using palette knife and brushes. Technically, oil colours ought to be done on canvas, but canvas is costly and I'm just practising, so I used handmade paper. When I do oil on canvas, I go for several coats, large canvases, and take months to do so due to long drying time. This was done in a couple of hours - I applied a very thin coat for the sky and water, and used the palette knife for the mountain. 

Then I left it for a while, then did the tree and the two shikaras. For the tree, I used a lot of autumn colours - Vandyke brown, Scarlet Lake, Indian Yellow, Gold ochre transparent, Raw umber, Burnt Umber, Indigo, and white. As a last minute thing, I did some of the darkest branches with the palette knife to make them stand out. 

Day 7 - Kittens

6B, 2B and 4B pencils used on 130 gsm paper. Pen used to highlight in certain places, to differentiate from background. I might be adopting kittens myself, so I drew this in the anticipation. :)

Day 6 - Lake of Lotuses

This is not exactly the product of one day, but 10. I've been working on this in my painting class. Today I had to get it framed and do last minute touch up, so I did not get time for my art of the day,so thought of uploading it. It has been done using palette knife, a technique called knife painting. Oil on canvas. 

Day 5 - Seascape in oil pastel

This was more on the experimental side. I have used normal oil pastel, rather than the soft pastels used for misty mountains. The paper used was handmade paper with more tooth than smoothness. 

Day 4 - underwater scene

I saw a picture of this fish on facebook, someone took this picture at singapore aquarium. It's not come out as good as I wanted it to, maybe because of the choice of my medium. I used water colour, and have given certain highlights with oil pastel. 

Day 3 - Robin

Colour pencil on paper, white poster paint  for highlights in certain places.

Day 2 - Misty mountains

Soft / chalk pastels on paper, using doodling technique, and blending with hands. 130 gsm paper. 

Day 1 - Poster colour on paper.