"Washing day"......An acrylic painting on canvas

I think of a  lot of themes whenever I want to start 

a painting but eventually end up in doing abstracts.

I have decided that I will try to focus on my abstracts

but I will keep on doing some combination of

 abstract and figurative occasionally.

So here is one in the same line. African ladies washing

clothes.I would appreciate and love any comments on

my artwork.

"Washing day"

Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas,

12"x24"

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"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!!

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.

Small Paintings....

Heart-to-heart

Acrylic painting ,20*20 cms

As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts

I have started painting some small canvases.

And I am enjoying it.It is sort of practice.You

never know ...you may get an idea for a big canvas

while painting these small one.

Flux...An Abstract by Manisha Vedpathak

Flux

Acrylic on canvas,45"*20"

Blaze ... An Abstract

When I started painting on this canvas, just like any other

abstract artist I didn't know my destination.I was not sure

of the outcome of this painting. It was just a scrap canvas

which was painted with black and grey stripes.I was

 then painting three big canvases.Somewhere in between these

paintings I poured some color on this scrap canvas and it lay

there till I finished 5 paintings.Then one fine morning I decided

to go with it and was happy with the result and decided to do

some more in same style. So here came the second.

And here is the third in the series.Decided to use shades

of red in this painting.

Blaze

Acrylic on canvas.

"Art is not what you see ,but to make others see."

-Edgar Degas

Joyous Celebration!! An Abstract painting

Joyous Celebration

An Acrylic on canvas, 100 cms * 100 cms

Was it a joyous celebration? Indeed I was in a

happy mood while I was doing this painting as

my daughter was coming home after 4 months

since she had joined an university in India.

It was a celebration of colours.I hope you all

like this colourful abstract.

Glamour...An acrylic painting in Afrian series

This painting was inspired from the girls I

see at a supershop in Accra.They look after the

perfumes section of the shop.All are tall,slim and

look very presentable in their traditional outfit.

Of course they don't wear the headdress in the

shop but I have seen ladies wearing in their

 functions.And they look so gorgeous and

 glamorous in it.

 Glamour

Acrylic on canvas

Diptych ,39.37" * 39.37" each

Beneath the mask ! An acrylic painting .

Beneath the mask

Acrylic on canvas,100 * 100 cms

How many people in this world wear  masks

which are not fake but are real? We all do.We

wear these masks subconsciously out of habit.

I believe even I wear a mask.Not that

I am fake.I try to be Me..myself most of the

time.But some places I would like to wear this

mask because I don't want to show my weaknesses

or my faults.I don't want to feel vulnerable.

I am sure this is the case with many people.

We are in a circle of society and putting off

masks depends if society accepts you for

who you are.But again there are some who

don't care what others think about them.

So I don't know if it is a good idea to

drop off all the masks.What do you say?

Abstract Ganesh II

Abstract Ganesh II

Acrylic on canvas,42*32.7 cms

Lost in her thoughts !!

As I mentioned earlier that I am working on African

 series,I am posting first in this series today.I have

used colorpour technique around the face.I would

love to have your precious comments.

Lost in her thoughts

Acrylic on Canvas,100*100 cms

Motherhood

The background of this canvas was actually

painted by my daughter.It was just lying in

her  room so I decided to work on it.

I have always loved to see these African

ladies carrying babies on their back while

they are working.

I believe motherhood is the precious gift that

 a woman has got .Both of my art pieces are

based on motherhood. I have also tried to use

 watermark for one work.

Motherhood I

Acrylic on canvas,40*50 cms

I would love to read comments 

from my blog readers.

Friends

I could not keep my promise of finishing two big paintings before January. But hopefuly I shall be completing one by this weekend.
Did one triptych.

Friends

Acrylic on canvas,triptych 20*20 cms each

Mystical Bison !!

Hi friends,I am not posting very often these days

as I am a bit busy getting ready for my first

 exhibition.I am exhibiting along with a senior

Ghanaian artist.I will be posting the invitation

card and details of the exhibition very soon.

Mystical Bison,Acrylic on canvas

There is an interesting story behind this painting.

I had this panel painted black for some reason

and white color spilled on it.Now..since it was

 looking really good so I tossed the panel up and

down to allow the color to flow.In the process

 I became so thrilled that started pouring colors

 one afteranother and this is what was created.When I

 thought that it was finished ,I sat back and started

thinking on what I have created.I found a shape

in it of a bison ...so  decided to name it Mystical

Bison.Let me know what my friends find in this.

Also do suggest some title accordingly.

This was the painting that was

commissioned for a factory back

 in 2009.

Upcoming Exhibition !!

Hello Friends,I am back again.

There is a good news that I want

to share with you all.My first

exhibition is coming up in December

from 7th-17th Dec'2011.I am so

excited.

We had a Desi Mela here in Accra

on last Saturday.People from Indian

community get a chance to meet

eachother ,eat Indian food, buy

 Indian stuff from vendor stalls.I had

my art stall where I displayed and

sold my small paintings.Here is the

photo of my art stall and some paintings .

Abstract Ganesha,33*33 cms

Shall post few more pics tomorrow,my internet

speed is  pretty slow.Goodnight!!

Palette knife painting !!

Did you say something?

A Palette knife painting

Acrylic on canvas,30*60 cms

Tic Tac Toe

Tic Tac Toe

Acrylic on canvas,80*80 cms

This game theme was in my mind for a very long

time.I wanted it to be a bright colored ,textured

painting.I tried to do the same ,used several
 things for texture but I am not that happy.The
 outcome is not what I thought should have been.
I would like to know what my fellow artist
feel about this piece.Please  feel free to
comment.

Landscape by Manisha Vedpathak

DESERT LANDSCAPE

Acrylic on canvas,40*60 cms