Series of Paintings – Flying Saree

It is important to put ideas on to papers or implement ideas into reality. I like to reflect my ideas through sketches, drawings, paintings, diagrams and words. So here, I am posting couple of paintings. They are from series “Flying Saree”-

From “Flying Saree” series

Another one a just quick collage-

Quick Sketch

Colors in Architecture

Use of Colors in Architecture

Study of Patterns

Study of Patterns inspired by Indian Motif

 

 

Power of Black and White

Bold touches of Black and White Accessories

Some people love Black and White photography. The same way, decorating home with Black and White theme is pretty trendy in the designers’ world. I just decided to use the boldness of combining Black and white colors next to each other. I changed the floor pillow of my living rooms by recovering them into Fabic with Black and White prints. Check the photo. You also can add just one or two accessories for your home and feel the power of Black and White. I have listed few inexpensive accessories in the photos below. Of Course, Floor Pillows are not available but if you are interested, please let me know.

Floor Pillow By Neela

Black and White Pillows

Wall Light

Hanging Lamp

Hanging Lamp

Art on Canvas

Seattle- Food and Architecture

Restaurant and excellent food at Lola

Nice ambiance, Delicious dishes and Catchy interesting Lights

I woke up and love the view of Downtown Seattle from my Room.

View from my Hotel Room

Swapped Pins at SNAG

I was impressed to see many creative ideas in those fun inexpensive pins. I did see use of different materials including steel, wood, laminated paper, resin, of course copper, aluminum, polymer clay etc. the photos are not very good but gives you glimpse of few of the pins. I did get to meet few interesting people also.

Pins by Artists- Introduction- 1

Pins by Artists-2

SNAG Conference- Swap and Meet

The conference begins with the pin swap and meet event. People bring clever and inexpensive 20 to 30 or more  pins which are fabricated or made by them and also can  express them, which are meant to swap with other people. This is a way to introduce and mingle with other people.  So I decided to make pins out of  paper and foam core. These are the basic materials architects use to make models of the designed and proposed buildings. Also, I wanted to use a square and rectangles to symbolize the rigidity of the materials. The paper is printed with a motif  representing symmetrical design and almost it looks like square tile. The bright yellow color is very much symbolizes vibrancy of Indian colors.  The photos below shows two versions of the pins. I made 26 pins and hoping to swap with some interesting creative people with their pins. 

Square and Rectangle Pins

Blue Diamonds or Blue Sapphires

Gold Bengals with Blue Diamonds

Blue Diamonds

I came across this pair of gold Bengals with small blue diamonds flush set on the exterior surface of ring as well as  on 8 circular dome.They were sparkling with beautiful blue lights.

I had never seen blue diamonds, they are rare and I thought about 45.52  carats Hope Diamond, the symbol of perfection and value. I also remember reading about its changing color  from blue, violet to ultra fiery orange, red; after few minutes getting exposed in ultra violet lights.

Of course these diamonds did not change colors.  They were very expensive but the jeweler gave another option of  making  with Sapphire in much less price . Sapphire is a variety of the mineral species corundum. The name “Sapphire” comes from the Persian word “safir”, meaning “beloved of Saturn”.

Sapphires might be better choice as  some  Sapphires do change colors.  Also, the color can be intensified with heat.  Mohs (hardness)  scale of  Sapphire is 9 which works for this setting. So the bracelet or bengals made up of intense, color changing blue sapphires would be the best choice in terms of its aesthetics, functionality and value.

Ready for Kill with colorful clothes?

Are they smiling because they are ready to kill for their feast or just to look beautiful in the photos?

Perception and use of Colors

Each color is like a note, but the right combination of two or more colors together make a song.

When you see pink, it symbolizes girly, princess like and sweet, but when it is used with black and white changes the effect of pink.

The store I passed by in San Francisco had this dramatic and mesmerizing effect with the use of these three colors. I almost magically strolled through the store to see the display of merchandises, which were in this case, the Jewelry.  I ended up selecting one pair of earring with gold metal and blue color beads. May be the sky blue just stood apart with pink background.

So Good Collection

Also, the photos I took earlier oftimber bridgeinspired some graphics and along with the colors, I created the illustration as shown below.  It is one of my on-going studies of the colors and its effect on human psychology. In this piece, I like the multiple grey lines and creating different looks with four background colors.

Inspired by bridge and colors