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Making art with coffee is always interesting, mainly because of the texture and the gorgeous colour! 😊
And the aroma! Gosh! 🤭😂
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Share… Care… Co-exist
The story
As ancient as time
Is a reminder
To exist
Co-exist
Share
Care
Dare… 💛🌿🕊️
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#nature #beauty #stillness #flowers #art #Watercolours #myart #blossomsheadedparakeets #stillmanandbirn
All the Lives we Never Lived… #bookreview
#bookreview #allthelivesweneverlived #anuradharoy
Give me a book that has a story weaving around art and nature and you have my unswerving attention 😊!
Once again, it was this cover of watercolour tablets spilling their paint that attracted me to this book. The fact that it is written by Anuradha Roy just added to its allure, having read most of her previous novels as well.
This is a novel in which fiction and history overlap.
Set in the 1930’s when the world in general and India in particular is going through a surge of patriotism. Into this backdrop wanders Gayatri, a vibrant, beautiful free spirited artist, whose heart wants to soar and travel but feet are shackled deeply into domesticity. The tug of war within her has been vividly portrayed by Anuradha.
The novel captures her angst, and that of her son Myshkin, in a staggeringly beautiful way.
How everyone is affected by the decisions we make… How lives change because of them… How you live to regret… How life always remains incomplete, despite our hardest struggles… All this has cemented this beautiful book into what it has become…
‘All the lives we never lived,’ is also a travelogue of sorts. Lovingly creating a space for the reader to bask in, be it in a small hamlet in Bali or a small town in India with its surrounding villages and vibrant culture.
While the language is poised and graceful, the sentences crafted with elegance, it is the underlying skeleton of the story that never leaves you to enjoy every word. There is an ache created, that is palpable… This is a book that is ‘put-downable’ not because it is boring… But because one needs to surface up… To breathe, before plunging back into it again…
#bookshelf
#words #story #novel
Inspiration Abounds!
Even if I didn’t leave my backyard
I’d have enough inspiration
To last me a lifetime!
I am learning slowly but surely to observe more, integrate more and express more in my own way.
And I’ve never been happier 😁!
Oneness with our World
It is in drawing regularly that clarity has come into my mind about areas of life that are closest to me… It won’t last, because it won’t be long before something else, some other medium takes my fancy.
For now it is this… Our inextricable bond with nature… It’s beauty, it’s preciousness….
For the love of a good line 😊
The idea of letting a line dictate the fate of a sketch is Curiously liberating.
I love to sketch while watching television, it stops one from being over critical. With one eye on the television and another on the sketchbook, wonders happen! 😊
We can do it!
