Wednesday 18 November 2015

Road to Spiti - a water colour painting

After having done couple of small water colour landscapes, I finally decided to take a leap and create a bigger painting.

The subject that I chose is a scene from Himachal, with mountains on either side and a road that curved and vanished in the distance. It was also time to test my new Winsor and Newton mop brush , which I had picked up couple of months back in order to create larger washes on the sky. The other brushes that I use are sable hair brushes from Himalaya Stationery.

water colour painting of a landscape from Spiti by Manju Panchal

Road to Spiti
Water colour painting on handmade paper
Size 10.5"X 14"

As an artist it gets difficult to control one's temptation to buy new art stationery. Everytime I visit an art shop I land up buying more than my CHECK LIST items. On one such occasion I had picked up the Winsor and Newton mop brush and a few other sable hair brushes from Himalaya. I had it in mind to use it some day and when I finally used all these brushes for the above painting it made me happy. Happy because I finally put them to use. Given below is the image of the four main brushes used in the above painting.


The brush at the top is mop brush from Winsor and Newton ( I paid Rs 1000/- for this brush and its worth all the money ) and the remaining brushes are manufactured by
Himalaya Stationery.


2 comments:

  1. That's an amazing painting... Sharing it :-)

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  2. Thanks Archana. I am glad you liked it. I also create handmade ethnic nameplates which you can view on www.ethnikhomedecor.blogspot.in
    Thanks for liking and sharing.

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