this artistic life

     As I had previously mentioned, this art form is the most time-consuming and permanent of them all. There is no way to undo a mark, once scratched, remains scratched. Which is why thinking and deciding what to create is the most difficult part of all. In most of my art, I usually start drawing with a simple idea in my head and go on with the flow to create the final outcome,  obviously during this process I have to attempt and erase many times. But since this case I can't undo any action in any way whatsoever, I must have a clear idea of what to make, which is what takes up most of my time. Nowadays, since I've had nothing but time, I decided to put some effort and create something different.  Even though the basic idea of intricate designs remain the same from previous pieces, I decided to give this one a shape and meaning so that it can mean more than just a design.      Recently, Kerala witnessed the tragic death of a female elephant w...

      S oft pastels are one of my favorite mediums to work with, and since I hadn't put up something in a long time, I created this artwork which I've been working on for quite some time. Throughout each of our lives at some point, somebody would have told us to not be the puppet but the puppet master of our lives, to take control over ourselves and be confident about it. But when saying that, majority of the people forget the most important element of a puppet, the one that attaches it to its master, the strings. And that is what is portrayed by the artwork. Concept:      When considering puppets and puppet masters, one tends to automatically come to the conclusion that the master directs the puppet. As far as that's true, the one reason that the puppet follows the hand, is because of the strings that connect the two. In this artwork, the hand portrays life and the puppet depicts us. Together representing that the strings are what matter throughout. They'r...