Another Glass Painting

I recently painted one more ganesh on glass. Have a look.

Shalini

Glass Painting

My First attempt at Glass Painting............

 

Shalini

Hand - Finger Printing

Wish you all a joyous and prosperous 2010!

It feels good to be blogging after so long. We(me and Shreyash) went to my parents place in his Winter breaks. His nani cooked everything he wished for(Aloo tikki, Samosas, Golgappa and many more dishes.)  and now this chap wants me to do the same everyday. I told him strictly that it is impossible to cook all those dishes everyday. But he is still reluctant to eat simple dal-roti-sabji kind of food.  His school has started but its tough for him to get up and be ready in time. He wants to sleep more like he was doing during holidays. Hope he will be back on track with in few days.

Today he did this painting for  Artsy-Crafty Challenge on mindfull-meanderings. I told him what to do and he did it by his hand. He kept his fingers joined and thumb away to make an impression with black color first and then white color (while black was still little wet). Once he was done with bird he painted background as sky and them drew his favourite clouds (he does them in all paintings) using cotton. Then I added bird's legs, lower body portion and border.

Shreyash's colorful painting inspired the kid in me and I did this Ganesha using finger printing. I'm entering both paintings in the contest and hopes to discover many more such activities there. Contest is on till 20th January 2010. Anybody can participate but activity has to be appropriate for kids aged 1 to 10 years.

I had continued my crafty activities while I was not blogging. Here is a ball cum rattle which I made for my sister's one month old son.

I'm dying to post other things but do not have their pictures. Will post next time. 

Now something for charity. NGO GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in school for one year! Voting in the competition is for one week only, from Friday, January 15 – Friday, January 22, 2010. 

The link for voting, where you can also see more details of the competition is

http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/338730

 

We all talk about doing something for under priviledged children. Here is our chance to do something. Vote for GiveIndia and help change lives of some more children.


Shalini

3-Dimensinal picture...........

Shreyash's teacher had asked to submit some art and craft projects for his school magazine. I wondered for some time what to prepare using his skills. Finally selected this picture from his coloring book. We (Shreyash and me) made this picture using pista coverings, green grass leaves, Dal, cloth and cotton. He did finger printing for flowers and pasted all these materials (of course with my help......). Below grass pasted paper-tearing for hiding blue color of sheet. I used a rectangular paper for beak. All this gave a 3D look to picture.

Finally I added border by pasting silver and dark brown paper. His teacher appreciated this work and I was happy that it was actually done by using his skills.

Also painted a Christmas Tree using hand printing. Again Shreyash did this and he was really happy coloring his hands in green. He liked it so much that wanted to keep that painting for home. But then I suggested to submit it in school and make another for home.

In all it was nice experience and best part is Shreyash has also got bitten by this creative bug and wants to do something everyday. Hope I'll be able to keep this firing in him....................

Shalini