My Fourth Solo Art Exhibition at Gallerie Leela 22nd May to 28th May

Everyone is invited to my

Fourth Solo Art Exhibition  at Gallerie Leela ,

The Leela Kempinski, Andheri East.

where I will be exhibiting

some of my favourite paintings as created in the past few months

Influenced and Inspired by the eternal beauty of Nature.

Medium : Soft pastels and Charcoals.

Created the invitation using Moldiv app on my i pad

You can click on the above link to see a video which shows the use of Moldiv App. 

( COURTESY You tube )

Storing of water colour and charcoal paintings - My way

Considering the fact that I paint almost every day, I am always thinking of new ways of storing my miscellaneous works. Miscellaneous because some are study works, others are thumbnail sketches. Then there are small pastel paintings, mini water colour paintings and finally my BIGGER serious works which I have been creating with an intention of selling them.

Mini Water colour paintings

My mini water colour works are fortunately all stored in the sketch book created by me. So thats a big relief. This book created by me has forty handmade papers in it. Once I complete my forty paintings, I might probably create another one as this is a very convenient way of pursuing one's water colour painting passion.

Bigger water colour painitngs ( Size 4" X 7"  or 7" X 9" )

Taking advantage of the fact that water colour paintings do no smudge I conveniently put them all together in a plastic folder making sure that it is placed in a safe and dry place.

Small Charcoal paintings

Since I regularly take two days workshop in different mediums, I also have a collection of small charcoal works. Charcoal paintings, I have realised , do not smudge as much as pastel paintings, hence I have purchased a big number of self sealing polythene sheets and I carefully slide my small charcoal painting inside the packet. ( sealing from other side ). If at all there is a need to frame any of my works, I would probably remove it and do a little touch up. I never spray a fixative on my charcoal painting as I do not feel the need to do so. The paper I use is good enough for the charcoal to get fixed on.

self sealing polythene packet

A. point where there is a small strip which can be pulled out to seal the packet

by pulling it over to the other side.

Charcoal paintings as protected in self sealing packets.

Plastic folder to store small charcoal paintings which are individually

placed in self sealing polythene packets.

Regarding art works that are much bigger and done in different mediums, I shall be writing a post soon.

Keep browsing and thanks for visiting my blog.

Finally, new header for my BLOG

Completed almost eight months of blogging and I am enjoying every moment of it. Decided to Change the header  by including some of my latest works, which includes trees and landscapes.

My old header as shown below.

Created the new header as shown below using PicCollage. Individual images edited using Aviary App.

Charcoal and white pastel sketch of a tree by Manju Panchal

Adding another charcoal and white pastel sketch to my "TREE" series that I started some time back in order to get a better understanding of tree anatomy. This particular sketch is from a reference photograph which I took while we were holidaying recently in LANGKAWI island. ( Malaysia ). 

We were in the crocodile park and while my other family members were keen on having a look at the various crocodiles, I was more interested in photographing all the beautiful trees around with their lovely artistic textures on their trunks. Lankawi is popular for its beautiful beaches and I have photgraphed every beach on the island. Will be creating seascapes referring to all of them soon.

The sketch below is done on an ordinary grey paper and I am also posting an image of the tools used for the same. For this particular work a new addition to tools is "COMPRESSED CHARCOAL" from GENERAL.

In shadow

Charcoal and white pastel sketch done on grey paper

The tools used for creating the above sketch are as shown in the image below

A.  Compressed charcoal from GENERAL

B. Conte A Paris Charcoal pencil

C. White soft pastel pencil from GENERAL

D. Kneaded eraser

The grey paper is not a branded paper. It is a very reasonable paper costing around 15 to 20 Rs a sheet. Sometimes it so happens that when I go to the art stationery shop I come across some rough textured paper which I feel is worth giving a try for my charcoal sketch. On one such occasion, I picked up this sheet and in the long run I have realised that it works perfectly for my charcoal and white pencil sketches. In my earlier posts you can see the metallic objects done on the same paper.