"Abstract faces"...An acrylic painting by Manisha Vedpathak

"Abstract faces"

Acrylic on canvas, 35"x35"

Couldn't think of a nice title for this painting.

Can anyone suggest?

"Game Over"...An abstract by contemporary artist Manisha Vedpathak

"Game Over"

Acrylic on canvas, 33"x59"

A tic tac toe game loved by kids, over geometrical background.

After taking my time to paint the geometrical shapes, which I

thoroughly enjoy, it was fun time to play with comb, knife and

 paint for texture, remembering the time spent in childhood

 playing tic tac toe.

 I thoroughly enjoyed this and I hope you do.

"Threshold"...an abstract by Manisha Vedpathak

"Threshold"

Acrylic on canvas,35"x35"

This is my first painting at the threshold of 2014.

"Break Through",,,An abstract by Manisha Vedpathak

"Break Through"

An acrylic on canvas,35"x35"

I have signed at the back of this painting , enabling

the painting to be hung in any direction.

 I loved the way it looked so vibrant in my stairway.

"Esprit"...An abstract by Manisha Vedpathak

"Esprit"

Acrylic on canvas, 31"x31"

There was a feeling of liveliness while painting this abstract.

Hope you enjoy!



Abstract Tulips by Manisha Vedpathak

I am not much into painting flowers.

This painting was a commission. Tried

to paint in my abstract style.

30x30 cms,

"Verve...the energy" , An abstract painting by Manisha Vedpathak

"Verve....the energy"

Acrylic on canvas, 24"X31"

I feel a lot of energy in this painting.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

-Aristotle

"Scattered"...An Abstract by Manisha Vedpathak

A day after I started this painting ,we got a bad news from India.

 One of my husband's college friend passed away due to cardiac

 attack. The news deeply disturbed us. This guy was so health

conscious and was very fit and was leading a nice happily married life.

But that's life I believe, which turns a somebody into nobody in a

fraction of seconds. I was not able to concentrate ,was thinking about

 the news ,was very upset. I wanted to throw out the emotional

negativity from my mind and in such a situation , meditation is a good solution.

 But I am not that kind of a person to relax your body and focus your mind.

So I preferred my way of meditation, and that is painting.

Whole time while painting I kept  struggling to remove the thing

bothering me, out of my mind. So I allowed my untamed mind to race

over all places on canvas and scatter. Thus the title "Scattered".

Day3.....A finished work...An abstract by Manisha Vedpathak

I always find it difficult to title an art work when

it comes to a non-representational abstract.

This type of art does not have any fixed object

to associate with reality. But I believe it can make

the viewer feel happy/sad/angry without any concrete

reason.

As I was thinking of the title , I decided to play a

 fun game. I showed my painting to my driver, watchman,

the house helps , my daughter and asked them to tell

 me what they see in my painting. And here's what

I got ....a crocodile, some faces, a world map, ghosts????

clouds.

Would you like to be a part of this game? If yes, do

drop in a comment as to what you see in my painting.

And in my next post I will share my feelings when

I was creating this artwork.

 

 

To have your artwork appreciated by the viewer is a gratifying experience of having accomplished

something significant.

Work in progress....Day1....by Manisha Vedpathak

A new abstract on the way.

80X80 cms

Small Format paintings

"Not all artists may be chess players, but all chess players are artists."

-Marcel Duchamp

"His Highness",Acrylic on canvas,8"x8"

"Her Highness",Acrylic on canvas,8"x8"

"Cavalier",Acrylic on canvas,8"x8"

"Bishop",Acrylic on canvas,8"x8"



"Untitled"...acrylic on canvas

Will be traveling tomorrow to India for 6 weeks.

Very eager to meet my daughters. Though its a

pretty busy schedule in India, will try to post occasionally.

This piece was just finished. I didn't think of the title.

 

 

"Untitled"

Acrylic on canvas,33.5"x27.5"

Wish you all a happy summer, see you soon.



"Knotty"..An acrylic on canvas

"Knotty"

Acrylic on canvas,24"x24"



"Up-to-the-minute"......An acrylic on canvas

"Up-to-the-minute"

An acrylic on canvas,38"x38"

 

I couldn't stop thinking of the painting I posted

in my previous post. I kept on adding ,giving

layers to the canvas, torturing it in all possible ways.

In the process ,I went through a lot of mixed emotions,

but didn't give up until I felt satisfied and complete

about this art work.

I hope you all like it. I changed the titled as I

have now given a new look to the "spill over".I

found this one interesting which is a synonym

 for: recently changed to appear modern.

Do drop in a few lines about how you feel about

the artwork. Believe me ,its rewarding to get

feedback from others.

 

"Halfway"..An Abstract in acrylic on canvas

This one is silmilar to the one titled "Freedom"

"Halfway",35"x16"

"Freedom"....An acrylic painting

"Freedom"

Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas,

24"X31", Available

Here is the finished piece which I mentioned in my previou post.

. My younger daughter has also joined her sister

to my home town for holidays,so it's only me and my hubby for a month

after which we will be joining them.so I am totally free.It is not that

my soul is free of responsibilities ,as one corner of the soul is always 

occupied with kid's thoughts like any other Mom.But yes, my actions are free.

And thats the reason I gave complete freedom to my hands and thus the name.

AFTER ALL SECRET OF HAPPINESS IS FREEDOM.

Though I am not happy with the title.I will be glad if anyone  suggest a better one.

In the above painting,I had no prearrangement of the composition,just

knew that I wanted to use the cooler tones of the pallette.The circles

were done with a comb directly and a pallette knife was used for remaining

except the design,a little  here n there ,was done by brush.Painting an abstract is

just like singing a song...let's say visual song on canvas. Thats the reason

I love listening to  songs while painting....actually I love music any time of

the day. Any suggestions for the title are most welcome!!

"At Work"...An Acrylic painting

After coming from New York,did not paint for a long

time.This piece was started before I left to NYC.I managed

to finish this today.This is a very typical scene in the market

here in Ghana.

"At Work", Acrylic on canvas,34"X35"

"Sellers"...An acrylic painting on canvas

This is second in the same line as the abstract in my previous post.

Here is the abstract

And here is the finished piece.

"Sellers",Acrylic on canvas,27"X61"

                                 Would love to have comments

An Experiment....

Musicians

Acrylic on canvas,30"X39"

I experimented this on a piece of abstract I had done earlier.

Personally I have enjoyed this but I am not very sure if I have

succeded or I have spoiled the original.Here is the original.

Nevertheless an artist always learn from mistakes.

I am going to try some more such pieces. Do leave

your comments about what you think of the experimental

artwork.

Small Acrylic Paintings by Manisha Vedpathak

Colorful Web

Acrylic on canvas,7.8" * 7.8"

I enjoyed doing this simple abstract. I have three

pieces of this style and could be hung as a set.

Below is the image of three as a set.Sorry for

 the quality of the photo.

Hazy

Acrylic and fabic pen on canvas,15.7" * 15.7"

Warli Dance

Acrylic on canvas,15.7" * 15.7"

This is a type of tribal art from India.

Warli Paintings are the ancient Indian folk

 art  tradition of Warli Tribe in Indian state

of  Maharashtra.These paintings depict the normal,

day to day and social life of common people.

 Mainly created on mud walls of tribal houses by

women of the houses.They use geometric shapes 

 such as triangles, circles, squares, dots and

 crooked lines. These shapes are used to depict

 human figures, animal figures, houses, crops etc.

The themes are often repetitive and symbolic in nature.

Hope you all enjoy these pieces.