Nothing to say … Still have to get some material… maybe tomw …!!!! tried out a few techniques like the moon and shilouette one … Oh Yeah!  i had to point this out … the actual painting doesn’t  look as good , until it is mounted onto a proper photoframe …Â
Actually there was no day 5 . I was pretty busy yesterday to  do any practice but  Day 6 was fruitful. The drawings today are definitely showing progress , but still no where close to the  real thing.  Im already begining to feel the need for some books , proper Chinese Ink and Brushes and ofcourse some Rice paper.  What you can see below is using the school grade  water colors on photo copier paper.  I must move on to cartridge sheets atleast.  This weekend I’m planing to visit town to hunt for near authentic materials … Im getting closer you see! …Â
PS…. and I made my signature look like chinese too 🙂 …and Everybody who wants to get considered for receiving a FREE  masterpeice, consider joining this site  now (on the right …) !!!! 🙂 … Â
I seem to have definitely improved on my SUMI E talents on the Day 3 and 4 . Getting a bit close to the INK and WASH harmony of the SUMI E paintings 🙂 … Aint I? Oh Well! Please! Its not bad for a beginner … Look at the difference between my earlier strokes with these … much lighter and smoother . I tried to ink wash some Gold Fishes too…
You know what… any bold doodle and a variety of glass colors on a plain white transparent bottle, looks like a masterpiece, really… I would say, this is some art, that every who awe’s over other peoples art forms, thinking ” I can never create anything as interesting as that one … ” TRY THIS … really!
No twaddle…The day before Smita and I tried some. She did the more interesting one… the one with Mehendi sort of design. I did try and incorporate my Chinese INK and WASH techniques here too 🙂
PS. Thanks to Shivani and Aneri to introduce us to this interesting passtime!
Been thinking about trying hands on water color painting for a long while now, but sincerely thought that it could never be my forte.
An old A4 size cartridge sheet drawing book,  a few small paint brushes ,  A palate of cheap school water colors ( borrowed from my 7 year old Nephew) ,  a few tutorials on YouTube , a little patience, two sleepless nights  and little hardwork LATER …. here are the results . Not as good, but Im quite chuffed. There is scope for improvement … :)!
I quite liked and recommend Chinese painting because it seems easy to follow and results are quick ( as you can already see).
Next Task : Painting on Glass Bottles !!!! Â … Tomorrow!surely!
Oh Well! dont look at me with those cross eyes and you are a pin head, if you thought that “Desperate Housewives” was for meant for , well, desperate housewives , NO . It is a feast for the mankind.
Me! I got hooked onto the housewives for Terry Hatcher, whose fan , I have been the Superman Series. Why this post? Simply! I liked the cover of the TVGuide issue with our dear Desperate Housewives on the front , in a 50’s retro look .
For those dearly following what is happening with the housewives , The show has gone into its fifth season with the first episode aired around September 2008. The 5th season seems has a very confusing turn of events when the cast is hurled five years into the future.
Marc Cherry , The creator of Desperate Housewives, said in one of the interviews , ” will send his show hurtling half a decade into the future in its fifth season. It’s a rare and radical shake-up for a hit TV series—and also pretty weird since none of the ladies will visibly age.” … Good For US!!! 🙂
If you havn’t drolled on these housewives yet …Â you are missing something! ( or everything)
WHEN Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry wanted a new killer Bree-type character, he turned straight to Dana Delany. It’s difficult to imagine anyone playing Desperate Housewives’ Bree Van de Kamp as convincingly as Marcia Cross. Cross is perfect as tightly coiled Bree, who’s renowned for running a dysfunctional household and having a tortured relationship with her children. It comes as something of a shock to learn Dana Delany, an Emmy Award winner for her role in China Beach, was Housewives creator Marc Cherry’s first choice for Bree.
Cherry’s pursuit of Delany, however, did not end with her Bree knock-back. Four seasons into the show, Cherry was knocking on Delany’s door again, this time trying to woo her with the role of prickly Katherine Mayfair, a character Cherry promised would ‘‘out-Bree” Bree.
‘‘I was offered the role of Bree and it just wasn’t what I wanted to do at the time,” Delany says in a barely audible whisper. ‘‘When Marc called this spring and said ‘are you ready to come on now’, I said ‘sure’. I thought what he’d done with the show was amazing. ‘‘He said he saw me as sort of the uber-housewife. Marc is very smart and clever because I think he sort of was playing on the fact that I’d been offered the role (Bree) and that kind of thing. He’s smart to work that in so that there was this dynamic already set up. ‘‘And also I think it was really clever to have Katherine having already lived on the street 12 years ago, so she already was a part of Wisteria Lane.”
Delany, 51, has an extraordinarily long resume, suggesting she’s rarely considered signing long-term TV contracts. Apart from her cult-spawning performance on acclaimed Vietnam nurse drama China Beach, she’s never been in one workplace for long. There have been roles in less-than-successful TV dramas Presidio Med and Pasadena and films Live Nude Girls and Exit to Eden — a highly embarrassing bondage comedy co-starring Australia’s Paul Mercurio.
So comfortable does Delany feel on the set of Housewives that she’s hoping producers will want to keep her for the duration of her six-year contract. ‘‘For me it’s always the writing, and I think he’s (Cherry) really done a remarkable job of setting a tone that a lot of people have tried to do and not pulled off — that combination of comedy and drama.
“Marcia and I just shot a scene yesterday where it’s almost slapstick, and then immediately we move into another room and it gets really serious. That’s a great challenge as an actor. I adore Marcia. I think she’s just a really loving person. So it’s fun for us, we just giggle, really.”
Delany (right) is also acutely aware Hollywood is notorious for its ‘‘ageist” attitude towards casting women in lead roles. When that rare opportunity comes along to play a strong, mature woman, Delany says you must have a good reason not to grab it.
She believes there are more opportunities for women to flex serious acting muscle in TV than in feature films. ‘‘I did China Beach when I was 30 and it spoiled me because that was such a fantastic three-dimensional character,” Delany says.
‘‘I have to say almost all my best work has been on television just because the roles were more interesting. Television has always been a great medium for women, and the fact that Desperate Housewives offers these great roles for women over 40 is such a dream, you know. It gets harder the older you get.
‘‘I’m here as long as they want me. Television is such a funny thing because you sign a contract, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to be there the whole time. It’s kind of up to them.”
Delany, however, seems unlikely to slip into the cliched life of a highly paid TV drama star. She’s not interested in investing heavily in Los Angeles real estate, is rarely seen at opening nights and flies below the radar of the paparazzi.
‘‘I live a very simple life, actually,” she says. ‘‘I like to keep things to a minimum. I’m a big traveller, so I have a very small house and I have an apartment in New York. I have no husband. I have no children. I have no pets. I have no plants.
‘‘So I can just lock the door and go. And that’s my favourite thing. I just like to have new experiences. I’m very curious. I don’t like to stay in a routine, I think that routine is death. So I’m constantly trying to shake things up.”
So has she consciously avoided marriage?
‘‘If I had met the right person, I’d be with him,” she says. ‘‘But obviously I wasn’t ready. I just never saw marriage as anything important to me. You know, I like variety. But now, for the first time in my life, I’m ready.”