Author: Beena Devi

10th July 2023 Mr Mani Menon   It is the small habits. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you read. What you watch. Who you share your energy with. Who has access to you. That will change your life.   Michael Tonge

10th July 2023 Mr Nandakumar    I painted this blue vase with yellow flowers in acrylic. Do you know the colour blue, besides the colour for the sky and the sea, has other virtues?   It is associated with open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, inspiration, and sensitivity. Blue also represents depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, confidence,…

9th July 2023 Beena   Hello there💃🏽. I wish to write about that Mermaid I painted as part of our class assignment. I painted her in acrylic, which took about 7 to 8 hours. To get that effect, I needed many layers of colours. The skin tone was challenging as I had to depict a…

7th July 2023 Mr Nandakumar   I painted the famous Pazhavangadi Maha Ganapathy Temple in Trivandrum. It is watercolour in an impressionist style. The temple is in East Fort (1765 AD), and the main idol faces east. There are 32 versions of the Ganesh in the temple premises. The Nair Brigade used to maintain this…

7th July 2023 Beena   Hello there. I had no energy to write even though I knew what to write. Does that happen to you🤔🤔🤔? When I painted that place in white with a blue sea as the background, I was unsure how it would turn out. It is a watercolour painting.   I received…

26th June 2023 Kala and Beena   Hello guys😊😊. I wish to share this little story with a painting from Kala done on Procreate. Street scenes are challenging, mainly when you include a car or a bike. The scene captures the mundane of daily living. The perspective of the street is well-created. I love the…

23 June 2023 Mr Nandakumar  I painted Tipu’s fort which is a major landmark in Palghat as I have memories of my youth that I wish to cherish. In the early 80s five of us landed in Palghat after graduation for our jobs. We bonded like the Famous Five of Enid Blyton and we had…

23rd June 2023 Beena  Hello guys😊😊😊. Allan wrote the first story about my painting of Bruges on our website (please check it out) in early 2020 during the pandemic. Recently, he requested some of my work, and this was one of them. But when I looked at that version, I was aghast🤯🤯. How can I…

19th June 2023 Ann Chin and Beena   Hello there😊😊. Today, I am posting Ann Chin’s watercolour work on a market scene in Penang. She has captured the essence of what I love about markets💃🏽💃🏽.   I find markets rather interesting. When I was young, my mom used to bring me to the market to…

16th June 2023 Beena Hello there🙂🤨. Let’s talk about this painting🥹🥹🥹. I was stressed when my art teacher asked me to paint these flowers😰😰😰. I even had nightmares as I needed to keep the white part of the paper for the flowers. The image of the flowers happens from the shadow colours. I was confused…