Tag: Acrylic on Canvas
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Eternal Love-1
The artwork boldly portrays the mating between a male and a female turtle. Most sea turtles are solitary creatures and only come together during mating season. Mating can be a dangerous activity for them. The male holds onto the female and she has to support the weight of both of them whilst at the same…
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Longevity-1
The soothing and creative painting here shows the hard-shell turtle that is adapted to aquatic life and is climbing out of the freshwater pond to feel the free air and warmth of the earth. The concept is that the turtles share an association with water, which lends meanings of motion, intuition, and emotion to the…
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Samudra Manthan
The artwork demonstrates a very important story of Indian mythology where the significance of the ‘Tortoise’ is superbly depicted. The story of ‘Samudra Manthan’ (Ocean Churning) which appears in Bhagavad Purana, Vishnu Purana, as well as in the Mahabharata. Lord Vishnu is one of the Divine Trinity, the others being Brahma and Shiva. Lord Vishnu is…
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Joy of Life 42
This painting depicts the turmoil of this materialistic world in which we stay and in the same world, these turtles are trying to chase their dreams by flying towards heaven, their ultimate goal. As you can see, the world looks much smaller as the view is inverted. It’s a similar representation of a bird’s eye…
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Joy of Life-41
One gorgeously-winged turtle soars into a beautiful dawn sky, while the other waits to follow, in this lovely soft painting of aspiration, youth, and hope. I have used a mix of turquoise blue and green colour that can be seen depicting the ground. As for the sky, I have used light cream and white colour…
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Joy of Life-30, 31 & 32
In the set of these three paintings, the life of tortoises and turtles in their habitat is depicted. They are in their leisure mode, enjoying the bliss of their surroundings. The earthen colours are used in the paintings, and life underwater is designed elaborately and is complex. Tortoises are land-only animals and do not swim.…
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Joy of Life-29
In this painting, the life beneath the Earth is creatively painted with intricate design patterns and reinstates the fact that the Earth is not a solid mass of rock: it is a hot, dark, fractured subsurface and is home to weird and wonderful life forms. This painting shows the mother tortoise is graciously settled deep…
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Joy of Life-28
In this painting, the seclusion of the tortoise is presented. Tortoises are completely harmless, but they should be handled with care. One of the things that we should first realize is that tortoises are equipped to survive in the outdoors. Any tortoise that is removed from its natural environment will have a negative impact upon…
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Joy of Life-19
The serene and warm painting here shows the deity, who is represented as the ‘World Mother’ epitomizing birth and nurture. She is elatedly and warmly holding the sapling, which she aspires to save from the chaotic world. The ‘Mother World’ wishes to have an ecological balance where every being is not only environment-friendly but a…
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Joy of Life-14 & 15
In the set of these two paintings, the composition enfolds the mother tortoise with her offspring’ and in the background are painted concrete structures reflecting as high-rise towers of Gurgaon, where I live. The thought of the motherly care of the tortoise is artistically represented as she is worried about the life of her offspring.…