Apple shaped Kumkuma Bharanis

I have already posted about my collection of Kumkuma Bharanis(Container to store Vermillion ) .You can read about those here :

1.  My collection of Kumkuma Baharanis
2.  Kumkuma Bharani- with Peacock design
3. Paper Mache Kumkuma Bharanis
4. Kumkuma Bharanis made from Seashells
5. Some more Kumkuma Bharanis
6. Kumkuma Bharanis with unique designs

 In this post again sharing about these unique Kumkuma Bharanis. These are Apple shaped.

 

One is made of Silver and another one is of wood.Both have carvings on them.

 

The Silver one:

I have some more Kumkuma Bharanis in my collection. Soon will share about those. Recently working on Origami, share about those also. Oh My God,I'm so excited! so much to share with you, but in next posts.

 

Until then, 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Frock with crocheted frills

Recently I could not work with crochet. My crochet needles were idle. The loads of threads and woolen I bought  were waiting to get transformed into  doilies, sweater , laces etc. Even I felt, I haven't crocheted anything recently. So started making this frock.
The pattern I have taken from internet. This is a plain T-Shirt. Attached crocheted frills to the bottom and sleeves.

 

With a hanging purse on it :

 

And made a flower and attached to the purse.

 

I want to gift it to a cute kid. After a long time I crocheted. Crocheting makes me very happy. Soon come with a series which will have the details of all the forms of crochet. 

Until then, 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Craft fest I visited

Recently visited a craft fest which was organized in Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore. It was really nice experience for craft lovers like me. Sharing some glimpses of the fest here.
The entrance , where both the sides you can view, artisans from different states exhibiting their craft works. 

 

Different idols made of brass, potteries and wood articles.

 

Beautiful idols of Shri Krishna and Shri Venkatesha

 

Beautiful jeweleries, and articles made of shells. Also you can see flowers made of  wood, sola-wood   etc

 

Mesmerising Tanjore paintings

 

And this was the attraction of the exhibition, elephants made of artificial flowers. You can see Ambari also on the flower elephant :-)

 

Hope you enjoyed this craft fest.

For long I didn't work on screen printing. Planning to design sarees and Kurtis with screen printing. Also working on some pencil sketches. Share about those in the coming posts.

Until then, 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Antique saree with pure Silver zaree

I often design dresses. I like all the kind of dresses, western as well as Indian.  But my all time favorite is  Saree. I always love to wear saree and design saree. Saree , the six yard magic, truly creates magic on the woman wearing it.

I always wanted to write about different kinds of saree. So starting with this post, writing about this fifty years old Banaras silk saree. This is my mother's wedding saree. She has kept it very carefully. Still it looks very beautiful,and antique also.

  

This is light Blue Banaras silk,  with very beautiful vine design, in Silver , Pink and Maroon. And the whole body has Silver buttas on it.

Pallu is also very elegant, with silver zari weaving and Pink and Maroon flower on it. And the Zari is made of pure Silver.

 

And I have taken promise from her, she will give this saree to me. :)

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Sketching practice

This is an attempt to practice sketching. Yes, I have seriously started practicing sketching. For this I have used a sketch book.

 

Nothing more about this. Hope to draw some more sketches. 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Touch of Krishna - Oil Painting

You have already seen the pencil sketchings of Radha Krishna in the post Radha Krishna -Unbounded Love
There were some comments saying Radha never existed , Radha was imaginary etc. As mine is arts and crafts blog, I keep away from such discussion, though  I have read from some sources, that Radha was imaginary.
 
Whatever, Radha Krishna companionship is always inspiration to many forms of arts like-
 Music - there are thousands of songs and Bhajans regarding Radha and Krishna. All  the bollywood movie lovers will agree with the fact that, there are number of movie songs inspired by Radha Krishna :-)
 Dance- almost all forms of Indian dances have Radha Krishan dance ,  there are millions of sketches and paintings made about Radha Krishna. Almost all the forms of arts have some way  inspired by Radha Krishna.

This is one painting which attracted me, I've taken this from Arts of Krishna FB page. This is a painting to depict the first touch of Krishna . Tried to recreate it.  But as usual, confessing,  I'm not trained in oil painting. So could not give complete justice to the painting :-(.

Here is my attempt:

I know, you will find lots of mistakes in this painting.  But I enjoyed painting it, though it took almost 15 days to complete the painting. 

Whatever the scholars say about Radha Krishna, whether Radha existed or not, according to me Radha and Krishna were great friends, who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company, spent good time with each other. 

Lastly , if Radha existed, then Radha must have remembered this touch of Krishna life long. What do you opine?

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

  

Dress design- Patchwork

After a long break , coming back to blogosphere. I could not work on any arts and craft project, because of my busy work schedule and my son's exam. My son's exam! Uff! felt like I was writing the exam .:-).

Now I could work on long pending work, design a dress with patchwork. I had bought the patches in an exhibition , and I was lucky to find exactly matching lace for those patches.

The cloth is Maroon Khadi silk, attached the lace on the border and patches on the middle. And some motifs around the patches.

Here it is:

 

Closer view of the patches and the lace:

 

 

I think , green bottom and duppata would look good on this . What do you say?

Now  working on an oil painting, soon share about that.

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana