Pinks and Orange

It's week 2 and the colors are one of my favourite combinations - pinks and orange! As usual I go through, cerebrally/conceptually, to finally reach my piece... This is what I felt like creating this week. But it's from a photograph (from the net) I had in my folder.

When you choose a piece or finally come about an idea...how do you get there? Do you paint what you dream? Do you research on a theme? Do you use photos? Does writing inspire you...say a poem or a story? Or does it include a bit of all of these???

For me, all of this happens at some point or the other.

I need to clarify that I am not speaking about choosing a piece for this particular challenge...I am speaking in general terms. I may also sound contradictory when I say that I completely turn intuitive and just go about doing what my heart wills at certain other points of time! These are the times I enjoy the Most perhaps!

1 Pink + 1 Pink + 1 Orange

Acrylic inks and Watercolor pencils

Canson Aquarelle, 300gsm

8 1/8"x11 3/4"

Currently I am reading 'Modern Art - Impressionism to Post Modernism' Edited by David Britt (Thames & Hudson), thanks to a generous friend who lent me the book. I am extremely impressed to know many great artists and their creative journey which obviously is bound to influence folks like me (us). I do believe reading such works and practicing one's skills in every manner possible are the ways to develop and emphasize one's own path.

As I am getting more passionate about art (reading books on art to understand and assimilate the hidden treasures of the past, the present and the future) I am dreaming (literally) more 'happenings' which flash through in all it's grandeur and if only I could recollect and portray it as it is...then it would perhaps be astounding art! Reading such works has, however, engulfed me in waking dreams like am seeing visions all the while...colourful, striking, luminescent and  enticing visions! (I do have such phases frequently...only the intensity varies! :) ) 

At times I am able to create it but picking up only through the periphery! My mind is constantly filled with ideas; if only I knew how to channelize it to it's full extent and potential! This is not artists' block I am speaking of...but quite the opposite! :)

I am following my passion and I am really holding on to my dreams! Hope it turns true!

'Inspiration' 
Acrylic Inks, watercolor pencil, pen on Handmade paper

I tread on hazy sands 

falling apart a while

mustering strength along

the path that leads on

to destination unknown.

I see the mirage of an unsettling town

grin spreads as I near the wavy pawn,

of fate and solitude,

of silence and mad-borne.

I see hues and shades

of million miraged,

'scintillating and luminescent'

silhouettes...

flashing past in light speed

crossing all channels 

of illusion and solution

wavering through the brush strokes

to catch a glimpse of the inner canvas

spread wide and wholly absorbent

soaking up all the colours;

every trickle that finds it's way

dropping lightly or with a splash

absorbing all the same.

And yet...yet I don't find it

not even half of it

on the canvas that lay wide awake

to be adorned with hues and shades.

There is this dilemma and yet I enjoy it as it stirs me up to create more.

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