Thursday, May 9, 2013

DIY: Calendar art inspired Wall : Part 2




Continuing the living with calendar art story, here are two other niches.
These smaller ones are painted in contrasting parrot green and citron orange colours.  Although calendar art remained an inspiration in doing these two also, the theme is distinct from the first larger niche (story here)- in that, broad elements of a typical calendar have been used on blank backgrounds as opposed to a dense montage of images culled from calendars.







For the first of these niches, I started with a base of aged mirror for a bright reflective surface. My  local glass vendor cut a chor bazar buy  into neat squares, which we pasted onto ply with silicone.





A few touches of paint in different colours, a  few popular motifs  that recur in calendars ( the garland bearing elephant, the Devanagari letters reading `Shubh',  lotuses and a  decorative landscape), successive layers of modge podge and viola,  we had the niche! 
I sanded down areas  that I wanted to reflect more between layers of the sealant, although it is perfectly possible to have a glossy mirror surface.








The second one, was going to house an old brass Ganpati, a gift from my grandmother. Hence the choice of a color that contrasts well with the colour of the Ganpati. Here I just magnified a single motif- the lotus,  and printed it in varying sizes.  Colouring in with water colour pencils and acrylic colours to defined the blooms :


I wish I had a better picture, but the entire wall is just too wide even for my widest lense.  But if helps give a sense, here is the whole deal :






6 comments:

Unknown said...

HI!Liked the smaller two niches more than the large one.very innnovative.

My Dream Canvas said...

loved it Chandan, very different.

Anonymous said...

I actually enjoyed reading through this posting.Many thanks.







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Shilpa said...

in your previous home, i was mesmerised with the way you used black and charcoal, with not an inch of space looking dreary or depressing!

and, now, i am typing mouth agape at the rustic tones, the bright pops in the calendar pasted jahrokas, ingenious by the way!

i cannot wait to see the rest of the house. do share some vignettes.

Chandan said...

Leena. Anu Praveena and Shilpa : Thanks a lot for visiting the blog and for your kind comments!
Shilpa : I am glad you like it. I have had a lot of fun so far!

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