Puffy Paint DIY

Hello Friends.... Hope you are enjoying your day!  

Well, Today I am sharing this beautiful, festive looking DIY with you.  As festival season of Navratri and Diwali is coming soon I am going to post some festival décor ideas here on my blog. For this project, I have used a round baking tray from dollar tree but any metal plate will work. the real magic of this project is puffy paint.

This is real simple, all you have to do is choose any mehandi design or any other decorative pattern  you like and start this project. You can draw the pattern with pencil or dry erase marker on the plate and use puffy paint on the design . Once you are done with covering the design with  puffy paint, let it dry for couple of days.  

This will look really beautiful with the diyas on the plate. I will be making more of these for gift giving. It will be a nice, colorful gift for Diwali.

 Hope you like the project and give it a try. Here is the link to my previous puffy paint project.
Have a great day!
Deepi

Warli Painting

Folk art has a unique way of depicting life. Its earthiness and simplicity has charm of its own and this is the reason why I admire Warli paintings. So let’s explore the world of Warlis. Warli painting is a folk art made by the Warli tribe based in Thane district of Maharastra ,India. The word "Warli" comes from "Warla " which means a piece of land or a field . Warli tribe have their own belief system, lifestyle and customs which have nothing in common with Hinduism. They speak an unwritten dialect mingling Sanskrit, Marathi and Gujarati words. Warli paintings are very primitive in nature depicting everyday life. These paintings are simply painted on mud, charcoal and cow dung treated surfaces with rice paste for the colour white. Geometrical shapes like circle, triangle and square are used to form human and animal figures. Simple in nature warli paintings unfolds the scenes of the tribal life along with trees, animals and birds in a very cohesive way. Now a days,Warli paintings can be seen on paper, vases, mugs, bedsheets, apparel too. No doubt, Warli painting has long way to go. I got so much inspired by the warli paintings that I painted a canvas bag with warli motives. Well I am pretty happy with the result.... not bad for the first timer ....what do
you think?



                       





sketch on paper

Gond Painting

Bright colours and amazing patterns of dots and lines of Gond has tremendous appeal. Their bright array of colors and unique sense of depicting natural world influence me the most. Gond Painting of Madhya Pradesh is a folk art and like all other folk art forms, subject matter of these paintings are nature and life around.You can learn more about it here and here 

Couple of days back I made my first gond inspired work. I need little more research and practice on their design and pattern works, so I can try it on a canvas. For now, I am happy with these little pieces that I made.

I painted on these cardboard boxes ...

Madhubani Painting

So this time I decided to make a painting… it’s been a while since I touched my color box. I wanted to make something bright, vibrant and colorful ...something that immediately lifts up the spirit and the only thing flashed before my eyes is the Madhubani Painting. So I made one but before jumping on my work I am sharing some facts about The Madhubani Paintings.

Madhubani Painting is a traditional art form practiced in the Indian villages of Madhubani and Mithila in Bihar. It is also known as Mitila Paintings. Madhubani, which in literal translation means Forest of Honey (Madhu-honey, Bans-forest or wood) has created its own place world wide.
Madhubani painting has its distinct style and well recognized by it. Done on various mediums such as cloth, hand made paper and canvas Madhubani painting originally made on cow dung treated wall with natural paints.Though the main themes of Madhubani paintings are images of Hindu deities such as Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati, you will be able to find beautiful Madhubani paintings of sun, moon, daily activities, nature, flora and fauna too. Madhubani paintings display vibrant and bold use of colors and traditional geometric patterns that supports the main theme. Some of the main features of all the Madhubani paintings are double line borders and gaps between the two lines filled with the cross or straight lines, floral patterns, abstract-like figures of deities and bulging eyes. No shading technique is used in these paintings but colors are always bright, bold and beautiful.

Let’s see how my painting turned out...

Have a great weekend everyone.