Durga Puja

It’s just chance that the last post was made exactly two years ago.  The group has been meeting through these two years.  Mondays changed to Wednesdays and back to Mondays and so on and so forth and now the group meets on Thursdays.   This blog was put up when the first two members of the group were leaving Dhaka for us to continue to share our art activity.  It didnt take off as planned : )   3 more have left since then and we in Dhaka hope that they will join us and share the art they are making/writing or crafting.

I’ve been a fan of Karin Jurick’s work for a while now.  Recently she started a new weekly painting activity.  She posts a reference every Wednesday and you get a week to try drawing or painting it.  The blog is called Different Strokes from Different Folks.   I thought it was a wonderful way to get our art group members present and past to participate in this or some other weekly activity and to share our efforts here.

This morning we met for the first time with this new agenda.  The plan is to spend an hour on each effort and we do this once a week.  It’s festival season in Dhaka once again.  Id finished a few days back and currently Durga Puja is being celebrated.   We selected this photograph from todays edition of Daily Star. You can see the results below.  

 

Fired with enthusiasm we started on a second one which will be completed next thursday.  In the meantime, Harriet, Maria, Crystal, Ratna and Tiffany – how about posting your work too?

Shereen

Pencil & Gouache – 210 X 297mm – drawing paper

It’s been too long and posts havent been put up as often as planned. I had also hoped that I’d have some company here at the blog. Ever the optimist, I’m still hopeful.

Crystal and Ratna have been keeping the group going while the rest of us were away. We met at Crystal’s yesterday.  Ratna couldnt make it as she was not feeling too well and  Tiffany will be back in November.  The latest is that we have a new member, Shereen, who joined us for the first time today.

Harriet and Maria, we hope that you are drawing and painting again and have found or formed new groups. Do put up your artwork when you get some time.

2nd Attempt

I had earlier attempted to paint Amina in oil.  It was my first oil painting and was a bit of a disaster.  I tried making a drawing a few days ago from the same reference.  I hope to try her out once more in oil.

What  have you been upto?  Any art related work done this Monday?

Self Portrait at Tiffany’s

Carried a mirror to Tiffany’s in the morning to ensure that I didnt chicken out of doing a self portrait. I’d been meaning to post another for the Self Portrait Marathon organized by Sparky at his Crackskull Bob blog.  It will continue till the end of June and all are welcome to join in and put in as many entries as you like.  So have a look at what the others have been posting and give it a go. 

I didnt manage to get more than half way through in the morning as I was distracted by the fact that I would not be meeting Harriet or Maria again.  They leave Dhaka soon. Came back home and completed it. I think I have captured a bit of what I was feeling. Let me know what you think.