Like many kids of her
age, Mamoon (Sudhriti) likes to colour, draw, paint, and enjoys her ‘drawing and painting’
… Shruti and I generally indulge her; I more than just generally … now that she
is vacationing at home, she tries her hand at ‘independent’ ‘drawing and
painting’ … enough of colouring books, so she seems to say …
A couple of years
back, Mamoon stunned us with this painting …
It was randomly done
and it was so beautiful, that I started dreaming … Kandinsky, Miro, I thought …
anyway, I was reminded of what Bikasho had said once, “It took me four years to
paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child …” Mamoon must have
been around three and a half at that time, and this painting made me think of
the complexities of ‘abstract art’ … she would have had no inkling of the turbulence that this created within me . . .
Everything has
returned to terra-firma now, and she draws and paints like a five and half year
old now . . . no fancy flights of imagination . . . just rooted firmly in terra
firma . . . houses, grass, skies, birds, rivers, trees, etc. . . . and most importantly self-portraits . .
. and Shruti and I are her patrons, sort of . . . she draws and colours her
paintings and dedicates and gifts them to either Shruti or me and sometimes to
both . . . and sometimes she writes her name too . . .
Here are a couple of
landscapes . . . these are all her most recent ones . . .
This one is done with
crayons . . . and dedicated to ‘Mom’ . . . I like the trees . . . and there are
a couple of fish in the river . . . the sun is smiling and the birds seem happy
Her first ‘conscious’
water-colour . . . a general outline was done by her grandfather and she
improvised with colours . . . I like the trees here too . . . and the sun was
an after thought . . . no space for birds, so no birds . . .
Are here are some
self-portraits . . .
This one is dedicated
to Mom and Dad . . . and she is in the midst of this landscape . .
Here, she is outside
her house . . .
And here, she seems to
be gung-ho about something . . . fist raised and all . . . or maybe she is just
walking . . . and the sun is shining, and smiling, as always . . .
And that’s all for now
. . . from Mamoon's indulgent Baba . . .
1 comment:
Sudhriti's painting at three and half is amazing sir!
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