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The Unfinished Forest – My Incomplete Oil Painting

May 22, 2010 Filed Under: My Paintings By Ishrath Humairah 4 Comments

The Unfinished Forest

The Unfinished Forest.
Undone. Cherished.
Never Abandoned.

This painting was born eons ago but was never completed. I stopped painting it midway; the reason for which requires a big cup of tea with you as it is a long story.

I remember the evening when I unwrapped this fresh canvas to paint. Beautiful trees, dead trees, young trees, grasses, shadows were my visions. Layer by layer the paints got wild and thick. Maybe I was guessing that the whole canvas will have many shades of green. I did not know what the final work would ever look like. But I always knew that what I had seen within would eventually be seen here.

And I remember the night when I had put down the brushes. The painting was left on easel to find its true colors. The oils dried on the palette.

I dont think I will ever complete this. I had begun to love it this way. Undone, unfinished, and in wait.

It hangs holy and high in our home and goes with us wherever we live.
This will forever remain my unfinished business.

Free Within – Geologic Abstract Painting

May 12, 2010 Filed Under: My Paintings By Ishrath Humairah 33 Comments

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Free Within – Acrylic Media on Canvas

There lived a soul,
in mauves and blues
Forever questioned –
Why not bright hues?

Here they are
in glory and sheen,
some colors of colors
that slept within.

What met your eye
was a body true.

beyond it
there are dreams,

…there are depths
unfathomable
unseen.

Free Within
Acrylic Media on Canvas (with varnished finish)
18 x 24

This painting is an expression of abstract observation but has a form to it. It was not madness – like my many other works. This acrylic painting was planned and composed to be what it is. The colors happened by themselves for they never need to be planned, but the crevices were pre-destined; pre-historic.

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Closer look at the art work

Geologic abstracts have a charm of their own. No rock, mineral, or landscape can be ever alike. There can never be a composition repeated in nature. Like DNA, its amazingly different form one another – but yet so connected and related.

Be it mountains, trees, rocks or smoothened river pebbles, each one by themself make their identity known. But they all are so different and unique. There is romance in sole and whole. Soli Deo Gloria.

I guess the yellow had to make itself come through in the most unlikeliest of places. But that is also what lies within that remains unseen.

Each section of this painting, when zoomed, looks like a painting by itself because of its details. My fasicnation for these kind of paintings and deep-rooted art is going to stay this way so you can expect to see more abstracts here.

The techique for painting this kind of composition (in either oils or acryic) is shared in my tutorial on creating geologic abstracts.

I cherish this one. I look at it and wonder how deep those crevices would go in the real rocks. And wonder how deep things really are. That there are no ordinary moments or things. That what we now see is yet to be seen.

Yellow Summer – Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting

May 4, 2010 Filed Under: My Paintings By Ishrath Humairah 10 Comments

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Yellow Summer Burst

Yellow summer.
Much more than yellow.
Not red. Yet.

This painting is madness of sorts and a riot of colors. I love to call it crazy. For it was craziness that made its way through on the canvas.

There are intense yellows, ochres, indian reds, olive greens, indigos and many blues. A mad medley of bright colors and their hues. Its thick paint on every inch of the canvas and thats the way I like. No modelling paste or gesso. Pure paint.

The real colors, texture, and depth are not shown well in this photo but I enjoy it every time I glance on it. I wonder what was I trying to do then. Was I really painting? Or dealing with a problem of plenty?

Will I be able to recreate another one like this? May be not. It is one time madness that can only get from bad to worse. Or maybe another painting is in making somewhere within. Only time will tell. Me. And you.

Details:
Acrylic Media on Stretched Canvas
12 x 36 inches
Framed in Black

I have added this photo of the detail below to show (or rather to see) what these thick swishes of paint do.

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What should I call this painting?
What would be a good name for it?

Summer is back… and so are the memories

May 4, 2010 Filed Under: Everything Else, Going Green By Ishrath Humairah 57 Comments

Yes, summer is back with temperature peaking like never before. It is the time of the year when every conversation with loved ones or strangers is about how hot the weather has become and that the worst is yet to come. As we sweat, fret, phew and freak, it is also the time of the year when families comes closer due to irregular power cuts.

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Summer is a season of making memories; memoirs that last a lifetime. When I look back on more than 30 summers that went by… I guess each one was special in its own way – with its share of memories, lessons, and warmth.

Everyone generation has a story to tell and memories to re-live, of how their summers were spent. Nostalgia is the flavour of the season that I now so often indulge in…. where summer was about people, mangoes, khus ki tatti, aam-panna, mogra, vividh-bharati, and more.

I miss the simplicity of the life that went by.

Now, summer is felt, not only because of the scorching heat, but also for the hype that surrounds it. Everything around is buzzing with summer camps, summer fashion, summer holiday destinations, summer jobs, summer getaways, summer workouts, summer blah, and more. There is more to summer than scorching sun; more hype than heat. Summer seems to be the happening thing around.

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Parched in Plenty – Tree Silhouette Painting in Oil Media

April 27, 2010 Filed Under: My Paintings By Ishrath Humairah 12 Comments

There is nothing on earth more giving, forgiving and comforting than trees. Mother, Nourisher, and Keeper – trees are our faith in life, the life we breathe, the life we need, and the love we feel.

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Parched in Plenty – Oil on Canvas

Parched in Plenty grew out of its own free will, on my barren landscape – the blank canvas.

Today, a dead tree was born in a peaceful forest against the balmy sky. A silent silhouette grew midst hurried strokes of verdant green and turquoise blues.

Though the painting was done now, its seed was sown centuries back. The plumule rose in poise to become my parent, friend, and healer.

Food for my body to refuge to my soul… the tree gave me all that I ever needed. Today, the lone tree stands on the brink of time – tall, stoic and unbowed.

Against the problem of plenty stands this lone tree.
My tree.
The one who held me for eternity.

Is it alone, desolate or merry?
Alive, half dead, or living within?
Who can tell?