Succulents and Joy
4th October 2021 Dr Beena Hello guys. Today am going to write succulents. The painting by my friend Esther Ng is about succulents. Due
Koi and Vaccine
4th October 2021 Dr Beena Hello everyone. Today I am writing about Koi fish. My neighbour and good friend Mrs Elizabeth Tang painted this beautiful
Who’s the Boss?
23rd September 2021 Kala Pohl Friends tell me that my middle name should have been Pollyanna. Or maybe even my first name. I choose to
Silence
21st September 2021 Dr. Beena Hello everyone. I hope all are fine and safe. Today’s painting is about the Blue Bird-of-Paradise. I painted this
Rose and Me
18th September 2021 Dr Shobha George Hello there to everyone who comes by. I am Daisy, a flower that grows wild and thrives almost anywhere.
On Being Global and Indian
14th September 2021 Mrs Kala Pohl I painted this scene because it reminded me so much of my heritage – Kerala in South India. We
Sailing into the Sunset
12th September 2021 Ms Vasanthi Arasoo This painting is another masterpiece by Dr. Beena. The huge sun setting and turning the sky into red, orange
The Ripple Effect
11th September 2021 Dr Beena Hello everyone, time for another musing. This picture that I painted is from a tutorial by Paul Clark. It is
Wave and the Masking Fluid
5th September 2021 Dr Beena Hello Everyone Time for another musing. Hmm, since my little toe fractured, I am grounded☹. Well, with the pandemic, most
Paths We Are Meant To Walk
2nd September 2021 Ms Kala Pohl I am a professional artist. When Beena first asked me to write and share my paintings on this site,
The bird and the flower
Suchitra Narayan I wrote a Haiku on a flower that made me look at life differently. I like writing poetry. A Haiku is poetry in
Summertime in an Abenaki Village
29th August 2021 Dr. Beena Ever since Allan wrote that story on Peace in Wintertime, Skowhegan, Maine, I have been intrigued. After I read about
Memories That Linger
Nyuk’s story and painting was so nostalgic and it put me in a mood to write about memories that linger. When I tell people that
Reminders of Things Past
26th August 2021 Ms Lo Yen Nyuk On 22/8/2021, Ming, my sister who lives in New Zealand, Whatsapped the above image to me with the
Look Up, Let Hope Soar High
22nd August 2021 Dr.Beena Hello guys Yes, look up. I love this painting. It is like you are standing or lying on the ground looking
Onam
21st August 2021 Dr. Beena Devi Hello everyone. Today is Onam. I wish those celebrating a Very Happy Onam, more so because of our challenging
Hope
20th August 2021 Ms Vasanthi Arasoo Have you ever waited patiently for hope to surface? This lonesome fisherman is in a calm lake looking into the deep
Not Your Soap Opera
It is so easy to give advice when it’s not your problem, isn’t it? Not sure what it is about me. I attract people who
Quiet Contemplation
14th August 2021 Dr. Beena Hello everyone. The Olympics is finally over. Hmm, you must be wondering what the Olympics has to do with
You Are Where You Are Meant To Be
13th August 2021 Mrs Kala Pohl I loved living in San Francisco. The mountains, valleys, water, ethnicity, food, politics. And I thought, how miraculous that
The Waiting Game
The “waiting game”. It is indeed entertaining. I have yet to figure it out, but here it is. Most of the time, most of us are
Free as a Butterfly
6th August 2021 Dr.Beena Everyone loves freedom. We may not realise it, but sometimes freedom is taken for granted. I was inspired to paint this
A Glimmering Backwaters Memory
A Happy Memory from December’19 My standard recipe for a trip home with my family looks like this: Wake up at the crack of dawn
La Gomera and Communication in Art
30th July 2021 Dr. Beena Hi everyone. Hope everyone is good and safe wherever you are. Today let me describe a bit about my painting.
Flowers In Abundance
20210723 by Vasanthi Arasoo Flowers make us happy and inspire us at times. What more than being greeted by a field of flowers? This beautiful
Learning Never Ceases
20th July 2021 Dr.Beena Hello everyone, hope you are well and safe wherever you are. Let us begin with the above painting first. When I
Take a Break and the Cauliflower effect
14th July 2021 Dr Beena What a lovely way to start the topic today. Take a break. Exactly, that is what we will discuss today.
Schadenfreude
9th July 2021 Dr.Beena When I first read this word, I was clueless. Once I learnt the meaning, I felt wow, the nasty side hidden