Recalling Childhood.........

Took it from d loft & gav a soapy bath.... thou d mseal flowers have damaged on due years ...... cant take my hands & eyes off from it.....cuteiy potty :D


Thanks to the fevicryl company...for impressing me wid its wonderful colors.....Aback "11" years......... woo......Whenever i take d color.. I was in a diff colorful world....& d fascination drives me even till date.......

dye making......feels great !!

truly sayin........... I gotta started experimenting with the vegetable dyes using mordant of alum (padikaaram in Tamil)............ Pity on the beet root...which turned to brown while boiling.......still im satisfied for having ventured some sort of dyeing.............

ha ha ... ll disturb u all wid my another idea....

palm leaf flowers............

not jus flowers............ I can play wid wind .......ha ha....cheers...my palm leaf "KAATHAADI" ......... phew..it whirls along wid the wind..

Chumkis & beads..

A few chumki flowers make with beads.... Ready made & stitched on ur cloth..whether it be saree ot kurthi ..adds more lustre to d cloth for sure.... ll upload the procedure in d next posts..

Long long ago......

I got a chance to snap my own painting today...........I presented this so long ago....before 2 years to my doctor.....had a great time ter.........& caught it in the right time too......... :D

A simple yet my favourite Stain glass painting !!

Go green-->thermocol block prints :)

"THE ARTSY CRAFTSY CHALLENGE June 2010"
this is my very favourite experiment , that I made out of packing thermocol...


Green green...........tats the nature tends to be........come let us all go green by cycling and recycling too....let d mother nature feel cozy in our crafty hands...

again it takes me to the pretty cool card print......woo woo........

Crimson red.....that reflects freshness..the color of the heart and blood and everything that merges with love and has much of mirchi......so a floral card print here.....



As like u......i love black...& this s it
easy cut...square shaped thermocol...... a magical touch in a minute ll make ur cloth dimensional..

I had been posting my art works again......as a series of pics in a single post..........as i got damn kindered to compete in the artsy craftsy challenge for june month,..... & ya I love it :D And to say about the kids ages.....after u had done with the carving...its jus d stamping........so even a hardly 3 yr old can come out with amazing artifacts....

PS:Shruthi choose watever u wud like to post............as i cudn leave of any of them..... :D

easy do...pretty too............

CLICK OVER THE PICTURE FOR LARGER IMAGE.....

Materials:
Polythene bag,scissors,thin string,cutter.

Make it easy:
1)cut the polythene bag to square shaped pieces
2)take 4 pieces and fold them as shown in the figure
3)Do as u ll make fan from paper
4)make alternative folds
5)tie them with a piece of string
6)cut the string off
7)expand the paper folds
8)cut the ends in an outward curve shape
9)untwirl all the papers to each round of the flower

and tats it..............thanks to flower making techniques available online................i used one from them here !!!

go green.........pantaloons shopping bag..

This pic is special,treasurable,sentimental...& every other blah blah for me............d very first thing...
* My Amma photographed it!! :) :D
*I got my call for joining my company very soon...that too in the next hour ...


The bag with a hole in the base...has no other go than to get rebirth as some pretty flowers !!

greener & greener.........

sending my entry to artsy-craftsy july challenge
take these flowers to thee.............




I feel happy for such a bg for my pic........... my mom's work under sun...ya...the Vadaam she had prepared is drying in balcony...and I clicked on top of it.......... she does lot of recycling of cooked rice remains thru these vadaams........

calendar paper flowers ..greeting card

A monthly calendar , which had not lost its shine & lustre.......but still useless ...ha ha...it was of 2009's ....
so I tried some twists & turns to reuse it on a greeting pop-up...with flowers & basket made by inserting thin strips of paper into one another .... I wud like to dedicate these cards to my friend Mr.Prem Kumar...for his colorful bday today & i made it jus for today...........Stay smiling my friend ..all the day....forever !!



now submitting my calendar junk art for shruthi's arsty craftsy july challenge

thilak shapes...

A few minutes....wow..tat ends in a magical cum dimensional curves...wat an uniformity tat brings to me......

Crimson..my favourite card print...

Again with those handmade thermocol print stamps I poured a little of crimson red , for this floral card......and formed a pattern......my flowers for friendship !!

go green..

My experiments with art always do follow the go green theme right from 3 years bac....tats wen i did my first post...........ya.........so the theme is here.......wid a few prints made of packing thermocol on a card..........wats next.? JUST GO GREENER :D

My square shaped print...

tat was a perfect scene of "colour blend".....wen I tried on the print stamps( I carved with only knife on thermocol)with prussian blue acrylics on the yellow cloth my amma gave from the blouse bit remains... ha...I enjoy the color merge & was taken back to long years ago....wen I get surprised wid mixing colors and get the magic new color of those sketch pens.. !!

my first print..on a card

I jus tried to snap through a crystal bead head.....I present these jus for u..jus giv it to ur eyes !!