Infant blanket

Paper Craft

personlized onesies

Quilling

Sakunthala Painting

This is 11x13 size glass painting. It took me 2 weeks to finish this up. I tried to give some affects of Tanjore. I have used glass paints for stone and transparent effect and Acrylic paints for the rest.

Thelymitra glass painting

Thelymitra flower glass painting. It took me 3 days to finish this. I have given some glazed effects. I have used glass paints for this.

Tanjore Painting

Tanjore Painting:
Tanjore Painting is a peculiar, ancient, miniature type of painting named after the place Thanjavur (called Tanjore in English) in Tamil Nadu, a Southern state of INDIA. Thanjavur district is famous for various arts and crafts in which paintings are ranked high among the other arts like Thanjavur Toys, Thanjavur Plates, etc. Its origin dates back to the Nayak & the Maratha period in the 16th century.

Paintings were done on materials like wood, glass, mica, exotic media such as ivory, murals and manuscripts. Most of the paintings were of Hindu deities & saints. Other courtly and secular portraits were also created.

Instructions for painting:

• First copy the picture in a tracing sheet and reverse the tracing sheet and sketch the outline of the whole picture using the drawing pen or a marker(thin) on the glass (Clean the glass with soap water soaked cloth).
• Fill the outline border circles with stone colors and after dried fill each square with gold color (mix the gold acrylic color powder with binder).
• Then do all ornaments with stone colors or glass colors and gold mix. Give gold color or 3D outline color to the dots or designs in the saree. Leave it dry for 3 to 4 days until the gold color is touch dry.
• Color the fabric in the picture with acrylic colors. For clothes like veil overlapping the jacket, just paint here and there. You can also give oil colors for the clothes, but acrylic gives more texture and flow to the fabric.
• Then do the skin colors using oil colors. Oil colors give the fine shades of the skin clearly.
• Acrylic colors dry quickly. But oil colors take time, probably 5 or 6 days.
• Finally touch the background color using oil colors.
• In between these steps you have to wipe and clean the paintings which spread out of the outline of the picture. Use thinner for cleaning the extras.
• After the picture is fully dried, paste the silver foil over the whole painted area or over the stone or glass color painted area only.
• Frame with gold color frames. It gives a rich look for the Tanjore Glass Paintings.

More patterns for Tanjore

http://www.tanjorepaintings.net/krishna.htm
http://tanjoreandglasspaintings.com/gallery_2_-_glasspaintings.

Peocock Reverse Glass Paint

This is my first glass paint. I started this when my son Nishil is in India. I always have passion on art, so when I get some time I like to learn some new art. That's how I started on glass paining.