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An insight into my process

24/9/2017

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In this week's publication, I am showing you a small paper work (20 x 20 cms, Ink and water colour on paper). The water colour is Van Dyck Brown that I made myself! From this small composition, I hope to scale up to my usual canvas sizes of 200 x 200 cms. For this particular work, I am planning on starting with a 120 x 120 cms work (for transport reasons) and go on to 2 metres.
Please wish me all success.
​Much light!
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My own colours (2)

17/9/2017

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In the past weeks I have been experimenting with making my own colours. Here: Prussian Blue!
Me being me, instead of washing out the glass plate, I started using the water colours on handy paper lying around in my Atelier: here inspired by my Geraniums at the window!
​Much light!
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My own colours

10/9/2017

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My summer in Tuscany has inspired me to make my own colours.
​I have started out with water colours with the intention of using them on my paintings on cotton fabric that I have brought with me from India.
​Here I have tried my first batch of Black and Van-Dyck-Brown on some paper I had at home. 
​I love the results. There is something about working with one's Hands that is so satisfying and exhilarating.
​Much light!

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Positive accidents

3/9/2017

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This drawing demanded a lot of patience. I was quite happy doing it, because I was trying out my new feather nib that I had brought back with me from Volterra, in Tuscany, Italy.
The drawng is from a copy from a book that presumably deals with fractals from nature...I do not know since I found this bit of paper lying around at my place of work.
I was admiring the darks and grays and lights and my new feathers, when I had to put my sketchbook down to attend to something else. Alas on a messy table with some water on it as you can see! My first reaction was to curse the ink-maker, because the tiny bottle did not say that the ink was not waterproof. 
But as the paper dried out, I could see the stains (which I quite like) and which bring a dynamics into the drawing. What sometimes seems to be negative in the beginning, could end well after all!
​Much light!
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    Aruna Samivelu

    I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
    I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still  a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
    My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
    This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
    ​In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
    My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create. 

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