Series- Gajra

The final assignment was to do a series. I chose to do a series on Gajra (jasmine flower garland). I made 3 paintings in this series. I used impasto technique for the figures. The background is the rangoli design.

 Woman making Gajra

Girl selling Gajra

Woman wearing gajra

Dictionary painting- Menthol

Another interesting concept. A random word is chosen from the dictionary and then a painting is made from that word. I got the word Menthol. I used the chemical structure of menthol to do this painting. I used actual menthol crystals.

Map Painting

This was an interesting concept. We were told to convert a map into something different. I soaked it in water, then made paper out of it. I drew flowers on it. I also folded it into fan. Then I made people out of it. After all this I arranged it on the canvas. But the challenge now was to make it something meaningful. This turned out to be very difficult. In the end, I decided to do Yosemite. We used to go there almost every year.