The Art Gallery-My Photo Blog

Autumn Blooms and more.

2008-12-26T02:56:00.000-08:00

I was home for Christmas. Meanwhile Nanna had captured some great moments in his camera.Hope you like them!

This Hibiscus drove our neighbour mad.All credit to Amma!

Can you see the orderliness?Lot India can learn from dogs!So next time you are asked to "go to the dogs", i guess it won't be very difficult to see it in positive light. :)

A kingfisher?(Help me bird watchers),
My mom says its the Paala pitta,the state bird of my home state- Andhra Pradesh. It is called the "Paala Pitta".In Telangana, sighting the bird in Dussera season is considered extremely auspicious. Sadly, the bird's future is not the least auspicious!
The bird was drenched after a beautiful October shower.

After one of those retreating-monsoon-showers!

Power Flowers!

2007-10-28T01:46:00.000-07:00

The Monsoon Lily
This bulb wakes up to the monsoon showers and lo you can see what it does al summer!

Hibiscus
After a nasty monsoon showers....reminds me of that Kiran Desai Pink
...Amma has collected over 10 different Hibiscus plants for our garden...

Rose Rose Rose Rose Roja Puvva!

Nooru Varahaalu(Hundred Jewels)
What better a name than this? Huge balls of maroon attract dozens of butteflies all year round!

2007-10-28T01:38:00.000-07:00

Nandivardhanam
If u r Telugu and don't know this plant....you win a citizenship..Congrats on becoming a Martian! :P

Addenium
Bonsai enthusiasts shud strt with Addenium..Looks like a miniature Baobab to me!

Crotans are Crotans!Oh those veins!

Sankhu Pushpam(Double-petaled Sweet Pea)
I should be conferred knightship by the Shankhu species for my efforts in spreading this creeper..empty plots around our house are proof enough!

Graphic Home Garden

2007-10-28T01:30:00.000-07:00

What do i say?

Chinna Usiri(Amla)

Wow...those Kasiratnam leaves

An Andhra house without a Banana tree?Who am I kiddin?

2007-10-28T01:25:00.000-07:00

Krishna Malle
Another variety of the Mogra/Mallige

Welcome Flowers

Punnaga/Kadamalle

This tree looked so 'equatorial'.. that I was shocked to know it had a Telugu name and was even surprised to see its huge blossoms.(Like grown-ups with pigtails!)

A current favorite in Hyderabad, can find hordes of them on road-dividers, on necklace road etc..and how can I end without mentioning its scent? And the flowers...aah...the sight of the star-shaped flower spangled trees on an Autumn Night is definitely in my Hall of fame(Favorite Sights)

Flower shower

2007-10-28T01:17:00.000-07:00

Blue Bells(we named it)
This creeper engulfs our terrace with an army of white and violet flowers. As Garderner's Nanna and Me paid pilgrimage to this creeper in beautiful A.S.Rao Nagar

Bathukamma Poolu
Dasara time and all of Telengana celebrates the Bathukamma festival making colourful bouquets out of these wild flowers...
Bathukama bathukamma Uyyalo...Bangaru Gowramma Uyyalo

The Song of India
...always wondered...wherez the saffron then?

Bonsai

2007-10-28T01:09:00.000-07:00

Some of my father's Bonsais.

Tamarind Quadruple
(Chinta)

Banyan(left) and Peepal(right)
Marri,Raavi

The Peepal Park Bonsai

Yellow ji...Yellow ji sanam hum aagaye...

2007-10-28T01:01:00.000-07:00

Banthi Poolu(Gende ka Phool/Marigold)
My tryst with marigold goes to my childhood days when I operated upon plants tht shook under the weight of theheavy flowers. Interest in Gardening started out with Marigold...

Pilani Poolu(Flowers from Pilani)
Gardeners from my university were, beyond any trace of doubt, magicians, Spring time in ARID Pilani was a a treat to a Gardener's eyes. I broght back some of my favorite Pilani flowers to Hyderabad and they are no less a treat to the eyes here!

My Dad's favorite tree. Jets of yellow Blossoms twice a year with very very little care.

Chemanthi/Asters(Chrysanthamums?)
Amma's favorite flowers. (Bloom once a year in our garden)
Can u think of anything brighter than this?

Flowers in our Garden

2007-10-28T00:46:00.000-07:00

Jadala Poolu(Looks like an Indian Woman's Plait,..thus the name)

*Money* Plant
(India's Favorite creeper)

South India's Most Popular Flower-Malle/Mallige(Telugu/Tamil,Kannada)
Boddu Malli
Almost grows to the size of a button rose and has an intoxicting scent.

Hibiscus/Mudda Mandaram
(Captured after a particularly heavy afternoon Monsoon shower)

Summer Flowers

2007-10-28T00:32:00.000-07:00

May Flower

Red Lily

Lily

Dad's Parakeet

2007-03-19T22:51:00.000-07:00

"Rama Chiluka"(1996)
The famous Indian Parakeet on Ceramic Tile has a story I am not ready to reveal now.The idea was from one of my closest friends in 5th Class(I was 11 then), My dad painted this for me.
:)

Glass Paintings-My works

2007-03-19T22:00:00.000-07:00

My first Glass Painting. Glass Painting is very easy and fast. But mixing of colors can be a pain sometimes. Not good enough to be called 'art'.Just stuff for the flea market, may be in a decade or so.

My favorite piece work. An inspiration from Mr.Mullick's work. I painted this in my 10th Standard(when I was 15).I loved the colors and the way they blended.

Another Glass Painting.The Parrot is not beginning to take a flight, it has just settled on a slender branch of a "donno-what" tree.

Suggestions are more than welcome.
:)

Graphic Art-My Works

2007-03-19T21:45:00.000-07:00

Lino Printing
"Arabian Nights"
A routine subject, but the effort for printing was too exhausting. Each print took about 45 minutes of rubbing over the Lino sheet with hot steel spoons.Though the result did give me some pleasure, the smell of Indian Ink and the hot steel spoon is a different experience altogether.I don't enjoy printing that much.

Screen Printing
"Where the Flow?"
Screen Printing was a little less daunting. It was a pleasure using paint brushes, but printing with the 'squeeze' was nauseatic again. Another routine work.

Poster
"Terrorism"
Another routine subject. i went about it routinely too. The twin towers pierced by the holy crescent,"green" guns, the lonely flower, lightening, the Union Jack, the caged olive branches all shrouded in unholy colors. The glow of the Mahatma seems the only way out.

Lino Printing

"Tea Time"

I love the setting here though the mood hasn't been sufficienlty created in black and white. The kettle, table spoon, the window sill-all "so" British to me. It reminds me of the "Mad-tea-party" episode in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The large table with no edges. Ha haa

Mom's Art

2007-03-19T21:30:00.000-07:00

"Stretching the Limits"

"The Umbilical Chord"

These are two of my mother's(Syamala Pulipaka) pot paintings. I really don't know what inspired her but the "coconut shell-Painted Eartherware" have been spelling magic in our living room since a couple of years.

Dad's Couple

2007-03-19T21:08:00.000-07:00

"Mother and Daughter"

Dad's water color on Thermocol. Very simple yet gripping. This piece adorns our portico admist a motley crowd of crotans.