Painting

Painting

When I'm not teaching, playing the ukulele, writing the blog, or working on the Mahabharata story, I relax by painting. Winston Churchill said there's nothing better for stress or tension than learning another language or painting.

Here's my latest effort: Ganesh, the elephant boy.

I'm still not finished with the other paintings, but I have to let them dry, so I'm working on this in the mean time. 

 Here is  Govinda with the cows. This is unfinished but seems to be going well. I hope you like it.

Here's a slightly more finished version of the same painting...

Now I'm working on a scene from the Bhagavad-gita, where Krishna's talking to Arjuna...

This is day one....

day three...

Well, I'm no Picasso, but painting relaxes my mind. When my mother died, she left me her paints and her easel; I guess she wanted me to continue the family tradition. My grandfather also painted. I don't do it for money really, although I've sold a few paintings now and then. I just like playing with colors. 

While trying to awaken the child within, here's a poster for "Libros sin Fronteras" a non-profit NGO I'm involved with that sets up libraries for school children here in Mexico. We donate the libraries and encourage the kids to read. 

This is a still life. I like painting still lifes, cause the fruit doesn't talk back to me. I paint still lifes when I run out of ideas. It's a nice way to study light and shadow and color. Well, thanks for checking in.