FREEDOM

This is a water color panting by Anindita named "FREEDOM". This piece is painted water color on paper; in the month of February 2010. The artist plays with bright yellow and brown. Here yellow symbolizes hopee and different shades of brown symbolizes grace. 

SINDOORA

This is a water color panting by Anindita named "SINDOORA". This piece is painted water color on paper; in the year 2010 on 23rd November. The artist plays with bright color and red to focus the attention to the pain in relation. Here green symbolizes innocence and red symbolizes deep pain. Here the artist tries to bring attention on pain in love affair through her painting. 

CRY

This is a water color panting by Anindita named "CRY". This piece is painted water color on paper; in the year 2009. The artist plays with bright color and red to focus the attention to the pain in relation. Green symbolizes innocence and red symbolizes deep love. Here the artist tries to bring attention on pain in love affair through her painting. 

Sunshine

This is a oil panting by Anindita named "Sunshine". This piece is painted oil on canvas; in the year 2012. The artist plays with sun light and bright color flowers to focus the attention to the bright part of life. Green symbolizes innocence, yellow symbolizes friendship and red symbolizes deep love. Here the artist tries to put friendship, love and innocence in one canvas....which is the ultimate source of happiness in life. 

Oil Paint Supplies

Oil Paint Supplies ....for new painters

To get started on painting, you'll need a canvas. You can purchase a pre-stretched, pre-primed canvas at most art stores. Price started from Rs.100 for primed canvas. You can also stretch and prime a canvas on your own. You can buy the canvas in miters and cut them according to your requirement and put primer on it.  There are lots of other surfaces you can paint on. For example: 

Masonite board 
Popler
Paint on Paper (but it would have to be gessoed/primed) 
Canvas board is another option. 

        

Oil Paint colors:

All the different colors of paint on offer are very seductive, but start with a few essential colors, get to know each well, and you'll learn about color mixing more quickly. I suggest these colors:

• cadmium red (medium) or naphthol red

• phthalo blue

• cadmium yellow (medium)

• phthalo green

• burnt umber

• titanium white (opaque)

• zinc white (transparent) and

• Payne's grey

There isn't a black on the list; mixtures of the other colors will give more interesting dark colors for shadows. Be careful with cadmiums and getting it on your skin as cadmium pigments are poisonous. If it worries you, pick a hue version. When a tube of paint says 'hue' on it, for example cadmium red hue, it means that the color will be almost identical to genuine cadmium red, but the pigment is something different. A tube of paint labelled as a 'hue' may be a cheaper or blended version, it may be that the original color is no longer produced (such as Indian yellow), or it may be that the original was not lightfast (such as Hooker's Green).

Best Oil Paint Brushes

There is a very large selection of paint brushes to choose from. A great brush to start with is the filbert. It's tempting, but truly you don't need loads of brushes in all the different sizes and shapes. You'll develop a preference for particular sizes and shape, as well as type of hair. To start, I recommend getting just two sizes of filbert brush, with stiff hairs, such as an 8 and 12. A filbert is a versatile brush shape that gives a range of strokes, from wide to narrow, depending how you're holding it. (Note: Brush sizes are not standardized, so a size 10 in one brand won't necessarily be the same size as a 10 in another brand. Check the width if this is stated.)

While oil paint will stay wet and workable on a brush for some time, you will at some stage need to clean them. Fewer brushes equals less cleaning!

Use a Palette for Oil Paints

A palette is another very important item you'll need to get started painting. Palette paper is another great option because it is disposable and easy to use. A palette knife is great for mixing paints.

Oil Paint and Solvents

Solvents are very important for oil painting. They help thin the paint and clean your brushes. They can also be used within mediums. The use of solvents will accelerate the drying process. Solvent is used to thin oil paint and to clean brushes easily. If you do use solvents with your oil painting, ensure your painting space is well ventilated, even if it is a low-odor variety. You don't have to use solvents, you can oil paint without it and use only oil medium to thin your paint and clean your brushes (but you'll need more patience because the paint doesn't "dissolve" in oil like it does in solvent).

Because solvent evaporates quickly, it means the oil paint will dry more quickly than when you're using an oil medium. It also "dissolves" the paint easily, which makes rinsing paint out of a brush faster.

Palette knife/spatula

Using a palette knife or spatula  instead of a brush to mix colors on a palette means you don't end up with a very mucky brush to clean and it also wastes less paint. It's also also easier to mix colors together well. And, when a painting goes horribly wrong, you can use a palette knife to scrape the wet paint off a canvas.

Use a Medium for Oil Paint

Medium is another important item you'll need for painting. There are a number of different mediums available depending on the type of paints you are using. Mediums help you stretch out paint, making it a little easier to blend.

Other Oil Paint Essentials

An easel is another important item to have while painting. Gesso or primer keeps the paint from being absorbed into the canvas. Painting rags are another great item to have on hand. You can also use paper towels or old rag and old t-shirts. 

Happy painting.

Analysis of "There Comes Papa" the painting by Raja Ravi Varma

"There Comes Papa" oil on Canvas by Raja Ravi Varma

This is the famous painting named ‘There Comes Papa’ of Raja Ravi Varma. Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian artist from the princely state of Travancore (presently in Kerala, India) who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. His paintings are considered to be among the best examples of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art.

Varma is most remembered for his paintings of sari-clad women portrayed as shapely and graceful. Varma's paintings became an important motif of the time, reproductions being found in almost every middle-class home. His exposure in the west came when he won the first prize in the Vienna Art Exhibition in 1873. He left for the holy abode on 2nd October 1906, at the age of 58 leaving behind his legacy of amazing paintings. 

Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings of beautiful sari (Indian cloth) clad women have also received recognition in the west.  He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. He played a significant role in the Bengal School of Art and was part of the evolution of Indian art. Raja Ravi Varma's paintings portrayed Indian myth with static realism.

This famous painting named ‘There Comes Papa’ of Raja Ravi Varma is a portrait of Mahaprabha Thampuratti of Mavelikkara, Raja Ravi Varma’s daughter holding her daughter HH Sethu Lakshmi Bayi who became the queen of Travancore, India. This painting depicts the scene where a lady is eagerly waiting for her husband to come back home.

This piece is painted oil on canvas; in the year 1893. Current location of the original painting is Kowdiar Palace, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

This painting is a portrait of the woman of the contemporary era. The perennial favorite theme of mother and child is depicted in this painting ever so delicately. Most painters find the subject of a small child difficult to tackle. Not so this artist. What a delight to the eye! The mother’s expression, the clothes and her figure are all exact and thoroughly compliments this true masterpiece. 

The women wearing a nice white gold bordered traditional cloth. Her hair was nicely done and decorated with flowers. She is wearing gold jewellery and traditional nose pin. In her left hand she is holding her baby. The baby is sited in her mother’s cozy lap, not wearing much cloths but she is also wearing gold jewelry and her hair also done nicely. Both the mother and the daughter wearing bindi (a dot on their forehead). I can see the bed from the door behind the dog. It looks like a very prosperous and wealthy family of India. 

The artist plays with light and darkness to focus the attention to the main character of the scene. We can see a dog sitting with the women, may her pet dog and also eagerly waiting for its master to come. The scene takes place at the entrance of the house. They all are looking towards the entrance. I can see a chair behind the woman in the dark and one red color shawl or red piece of cloth. As red color symbolizes deep love I think here in the painting this deep red color also symbolizes deep love for the man of the family behind the story of waiting. I also think in this painting Varma wanted to show the love for the men of the family in the eyes of the family members.

In this painting, Ravi Varma express his idea of Indian culture and story of a woman’s every day affair. One scholar said that he might be representing his family story because his wife used to wait like this for him.

Raja Ravi Varma’s this works finely blended the elements of the early Tanjore custom of painting Nayikas (the feminine emotions being the central theme) and the graceful realism of European masters. Ravi Varma had been using the indigenous paints made from leaves, flowers, tree bark and soil which his uncle Raja Raja Varma prepared for him. His first set of oil paints was brought from Madras after noticing a newspaper advertisement. Excited and nervous, he handled the paints he had waited for a long time. With oil paints applied thickly on canvas, Ravi Varma created lustrous, impacted jewelry, brocaded textures, and subtle shades of complexions in this picture. 

Ravi Varma’s fame as a portrait artist soared with several important portrait commissions, and the sensitivity and immense competence this artist still remains unsurpassed. His depictions of Indian women drew such appreciation that a beautiful woman would often be described as looking “as if she had stepped out of a Varma canvas.”

Sources of the picture and writings :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Ravi_Varma

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Raja_Ravi_Varma

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