Sunday, March 11, 2012

Springtime...

     It's spring time and the colors that this season throws are at times amazing. No better example of this than the Palaash flowers (Butea Monosperma). Bright orange and red in color, this flower was compared to Fire by the Nobel Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore in his poems. It is even called a form of the God of Fire by some. The flowers are also used to make colors for the Indian festival of Colors- Holi.
     Painting this was fun. It was a pleasure playing with such bright colors. It really brightens up ones mood. Hope you all like this work.

21 comments:

  1. Asit, this is beautiful and so serene. It certainly brightened up my day with its beautiful colors. Really well done!

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  2. Ahhh, thanks fot making me smile :). Lovely, simply lovely.
    Stay inspired!

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  3. Beautiful painting; just loose enough and still detailed enough and the colors are very appealing.

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  4. What a beautiful composition! Love all the soft edges.

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  5. Though you have painted it loose, I still see so many intricate details that you incorporated in to the painting, very cheerful and mood uplifting! I didnt know any of the details you have mentioned about this flower, thanks for sharing. Also thanks for your visit and feed back!

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  6. Beautiful flowers and composition. Great job Asit! Ciao.

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  7. Hi Asit. This painting looks like you enjoyed creating it - beautiful colors and sinuous, fluid lines.

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  8. esp like focus and light on the the flower buds.. must be incredibly beautiful tree .

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  9. Your direction of movement is very captivating in this piece!

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  10. Very nice details, color and movement!

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  11. Your colors are amazing, a great loose and expressive painting! Love your style!

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  12. Hello Asit, Good to see a new painting from you. Enjoyed this.

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  13. It's a wonderful flower Asit, completely unknown to me, so I looked it up in one of my big botanical books and it wasn't mentioned in any of them, so probably it is an Indian 'speciality' :-) Looks really superb!

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  14. Un soggetto nuovo per te. E' bellissimo. Una bella composizione e dei bei colori. Elvi

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  15. Ciao Ak, very good your flowers because there is life, mouvement and colours. Generally the men paint flowers too rigid loosing life.
    This is not a problem in your work.
    I don't write english very well and I hope you can understand.
    Ciao, ciao, Floriana

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  16. Very beautiful watercolour, Asit, I especially like the composition and the loosely done background. Yet, there's enough detail to see how lovely these flowers are.

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  17. What a beauty!
    these flowers are alive. Congrats!

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  18. You painted these flowers so beautifully, Ak!! You're right! these Palaash flowers are truly beautiful in color.

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  19. !!!!!!SALUDOS, BONITAS FLORES Y MEJOR SUS ACUARELAS ES UN PLACER VISITAR SU BLOG!!!!!!

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  20. Thanks friends for all the encouragement.

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