Ganpatipule beach - Watercolor paintings

 “ Colors like features, follow the changes of emotions.” Pablo Picasso 

Ganpatipule beach, located on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, is a clean, tranquil, and pristine beach known for its scenic beauty, coconut palms and the historic 400 year old Swayambhu Ganpati temple. 

We were at this beautiful beach last August and and I captured the monsoon landscape at different times of the day and so began my series of Watercolor paintings on my most favourite subject “Seascapes”. I got everything that I was looking for. 

Water, the elixir of life, one of the most fundamental requirements for life in any form, is somehow my source of inspiration. Moreover, I spent all my life close to sea and I feel, painting a seascape is more about capturing water and sky. It is about expressing emotion, movement, and silence all at once. Through these simple limited palette paintings, I get to explore color, light, texture and atmosphere in unique ways.

In most of my paintings below I have mostly used  Chitrapat handmade paper  . The size of the paper varies in each of them. This paper can be easily purchased online from different stationery branded stores. I normally buy the rough textured pad from Himalaya Fine Art which is situated in Fort area. In fact, the store comes up with sale every three to four months and I love the discount offers that they provide and moreover the products are genuine and great quality. Would definitely recommend everyone to try it out once.

If you wish to read a little more in detail about each of the paintings below, do visit my INSTAGRAM profile wherein I am more active. However, I do plan to create a post very soon on my “Limited Palette” exploration which I began a few months ago after getting inspired by world renowned artist Hazel Soan.

Using a limited palette has given a new direction to my watercolor techniques. I now use just about three to five color hues and that keeps my work simple. I get better color harmony and avoid muddy effects. Watercolor medium is challenging by itself and using a lot of color pigments can complicate it further.

Shimmering Silence 

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size:  4.5” X 6.5”

Afternoon Sparkle

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 3.75” X 5.5”

Coastal Monsoon

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 4.5” X 6.5”

Monsoon vibes at the beach 

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 4.5” X 6.75”

A tree by the shore

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 3” X 4”

Quiet Reflections 

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 4.75” X 6.75”

Rocks and waves

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 4.75” X 6.75”

( Painting with my reference photo )

( Painting with my reference photo )

A Rocky beach

Watercolor painting on Chitrapat handmade paper 

Size: 4.75” X 6.75”

( Painting with my reference photo )

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Art quotes ( My favourite ones )

 Motivational art quotes. 

Quotes have inspired me all throughout my art journey. It provides me with instant inspiration and transforms my behaviour and my creative thinking pattern. Quotes are beautiful sentences spoken by a generation of artists from the bygone era, and every artist can relate to each and every word because the basic truth and its significance has remained the same. We share the same love and passion and gratitude for the beauty in this world. Quotes keep me going.

“Clear out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.” Dee Hock

“The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.” Michelangelo 

“Light in nature creates the movement of colours.” Robert Delaunay 

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” B B King

“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.” Vincent Van Gogh 

“Choose only one master - Nature.” Rembrandt 

“Colors like features, follow the changes of emotions.” Pablo Picasso

“What is done in love is done well.” Vincent Van Gogh 

“Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.” Ken Danny

“I use watercolor to give voice to what I would like to talk about.” Jerry Pinkney 

“If painting weren’t so difficult, it wouldn’t be fun.” Edgar Degas

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” Leonardo Da Vinci 

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.” Orphan Pamuk

“Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.” Renoir

“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous.” Aristotle 

“The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments in a palette.” Henry S Haskins

“I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.” Robert Redford

“Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet and alone.” H Matisse

“Painting is silent poetry.” Plutarch

“ I use Watercolor to give voice to what I would like to talk about.” Jerry Pinckney

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” Leonardo Da Vinci 

“The only time I am truly in the Now is when I paint.” Lori McNee

“Everything is hard before it is easy.” Goethe J W

“I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.” Pablo Picasso 

“Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.” Vincent Van Gogh 

“The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.” Paul Cezanne

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