I’d always believed that cows were friendly docile creatures till I got chased down a busy road for patting one on its nose! That velvety nose had been so tempting, I didnt notice the horns till they were pointing in my direction! Quite obviously looks can be deceptive and so can the zillion movies showing docile cows. They’re still at the top of my list of animals to sketch, followed closely by elephants!
We have a saying in Hindi Bhagwan jab deta hai to chappar phad ke deta hai. It means when God gives it is plentiful enough to bring the roof down! It feels that way, at least on the art front, starting with my first sale in August last year.
Shako, a group formed by 9 leading Bangladeshi artists with the aim of promoting women’s art in Bangladesh, has invited my friend, Smita and me to exhibit with them for International Womens Day from 11:00am – 8:00pm on March 7th & 8th, 2008.
Update : March 1, 2008 : Venue: Hse 80, Road 23, Block A, Banani, Dhaka 1212. If you happen to be in town do stop by to have a look.
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Hi Ujwala.
Love the art displayed on your blog.
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Thanks.
Thank you Amrit. I enjoyed my visit to your sites. I’ve taken you up on your offer and added two blogs and will add two more over the next few days.
Maya, congrats on the art news! And great cow too.
Mooooooving.
Great work!
How do you manage to take pictures of your work. I have a tough time doing it with my digi cam!
Looking forward to tips and some help…
Have a look…
http://raga-artblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/dry-pastels-2.html
awaiting some useful tips and suggestions!
Nice work ujwala … You charcoal work is amazing. I haven’t seen many sketches of cows other than portraying her as a kamadhenu
willie : thank you
it went off very well.
Raga : i use a digital camera too. used to use a canon sd400 and now use a panasonic fz18. usually use the histogram to adjust the dark and light range. this comes in basic photo program supplied with the mac – iphoto. i had a look at your blog. love the work especially the piece you’ve linked to and your photographs look good.
Nishu : cows are one of my favourite animals to draw followed closely by elephants!!
i think cows have the most fabulous eyes and lovely velvety noses. I didnt manage to do the eyes justice here. will work on that in the next one.
keep up the good work Ujwala
btw your cow is a little skinny too … feed her something
lol! shall work on making them fatter too
but they do have a lot of loose skin on them especially, actually only along their necks.
Hey Ujwala… I am so impressed and art exhibition already…Jeez If I haven’t left so long maybe I could have painted more and participated grrr! Anyway here I am in Botswana until maybe the 6th of April… As soon as I return, please let’s start to meet again to draw and maybe paint… I juts want to tell you that this blog of yours inspired me to create another one in english for my creative bursts… I have been drawing faces here in Botswana but from my imagination… and soon will post them there inaugurating it… But did it thanks to you and your discipline… This last drawings and paintings you posted are superb…
Thanks for stopping by…
Will try out using some other image editors! anyways thanks for the suggestions!
Hey Kira
Looking forward to your new blog. and thanks! The exhibition went off very well we had great company because of the SHAKO artists. I hope you’re going to join in on the next one. Stefano is starting classes with Kuhu this Sat. Unfortunately I’ll be busy hanging paintings for the next exhibition which starts on the 16th. and yes, let’s start again once you return.
Raga : sorry i couldnt be of more help. i’m a newbie too as far as fixing photos is concerned.