@ Pigmento – Kunst & Design
A simple PVC pipe as design object! Water it or Vase it!
It could be a very good DIY for a vase. All of us might be having pipes or few long and short pieces. Pigmento has made this beautiful vase from such simple materials -PVC pipe and a clamp. Lo and behold your vase is ready!
Artsit Ng. B. Singha
A young artist based in Mumbai B. Singha’s these water colours on paper remain untitled and aptly so.
How do you describe global warming?
Or for that matter a peek into future where you would meet polluted world as well as aliens?
Who are looking like aliens-we or them?
But then hope, lotus and leaves are eternal!
Analyze your way, ask your questions and find your answers in these simple watercolours where fresh colours also tug at your heart.
Exhibited in February these year at Chatterjee & Lal art gallery the series was named ‘Breathe’.
Does this make me a vandal
asks artist Apnavi Thaker herself.
A non-conformist who does not have any formal education in art made her decision to be a painter at the age of six. This Mumbai born artist was in Geneva as a teenager when she got involved in street art; provoking the secure system. Back in Mumbai at the age of 20 she trained under artist Krishnamachari Bose and Artist Jehangir Jani guided her.
No standard way of life for her, she is famous for going bald too. Her artwork is funky, provocative, questioning, a little crude and has certain kind of violence which depicts liberating experiences.
At this moment I am exactly doing rangoli.
Rangoli is called painted prayers of India.
I am doing rangoli since I was a kid. When I was a kid we had a raised platform in the courtyard especially made for rangoli. We used to buy permanent paints (samples used to come in small amounts) and used to take 2-3 days to make rangolis all over house at different places. We never used to get tired. I still do it but now with flowers or powder colours.
All over India rangoli is done at different festivals or even on everyday basis and has different names such as Alpana in West Bengal, Kolam in south etc.
from Bangladesh
please click to enlarge to see stepwise alpana
Here are some sites with beautiful patterne , info & how-tos…
Animation of a rangoli design.
Some beautiful rangoli designs.
Tips and rangoli designs.
more rangoli patterns.
Tomorrow is diwali and I wish I had more time to do this post on my favourite art & craft but… (maybe…no Iwill definitely do a region wise post again on this topic), (& if my fellow bloggers have done a post on same topic I would add their links later.)
