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A new experience

24/12/2017

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Today I would like to post something unusual for me.
​This was the first time I did a nude drawing with a live model. I am quite happy with the series of drawings I made and here is one amongst the few I managed to photograph. I have to yet "fix" the rest and sit down with them after quite a hectic weekend of "action drawing" a technique that fascinated me. Hope to use it more often!
​In the meanwhile, I wish you all a festive season and will be back with you in the New Year.
​Best wishes and much light!
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Colour fields

17/12/2017

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Presenting to you this week my trial of my colour fields on paper.
The colours are self made except for the dark graphite areas which bring in some contrast.
Originally, the abstract movement intended to do away with form, appealing to primordial emotions. That the colour fields seemed to envelope the viewer and surpass the boundaries of the painting's frame was their most defining characteristic.
Here my format is extremely small (14 x 18 cms) in comparison to the mammoth works by Rothko, Newman, Frankenthaler and the others belonging to this era. This work is small when compared to my own really large (170 x 210 cms) canvases as well.
I like the way the small fields interact with each other creating multiple spaces for the viewers eyes. I can well imagine that the created spaces can be multidimensional for the viewer as well, forcing one to step forward or back as the case may be.
Looking forward now to the scaling up!
Much light!

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Poinsettias

10/12/2017

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Come Advent, come Poinsettias!
​These bright red (and other shades of colours) plants herald the festive season here in Berlin and bring colour into otherwise grey climes.
​In order that they are so brightly coloured, the plants have to be kept in the dark and be sun starved (light deprivation) so that they receive the signal to make these bright reds. So the beautiful plants we actually see and buy are indeed stressed beings.
​Many a time those beautiful smiles and gracious demeanours are actually a result of stress and hardship. The Mexicans of course have another legend (read it here) about the Poinsettias!
​Here my water colour Poinsettias (with my own new colours).
​Much light!
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What does this evoke in you?

3/12/2017

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Carrying on from my post of last week: what does this image evoke in you?
I like the subtlety of the white on blue and am proud that the white is fact quite opaque!
I had fun making the colours myself and bringing them on to paper. In the last weeks I have been making my own colours and am quite happy with the results. Can't wait to use my colours on a regular basis!
​Much light and a blessed Advent Sunday!
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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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