Smart "R" Arts

Henri Rousseau was born on May 21, 1844, in Laval, France.He was a self taught french artist. While working as a toll collector in Paris, he taught himself to paint and exhibited his work almost annually.Rousseau had begun to paint in his spare time. He never had a formal art education; instead, he taught himself by copying paintings in the art museums of Paris and by sketching in ... the city's botanical gardens and natural history museums. He always feels “Nature is the best teacher”. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naive or primitive painter.  His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle.His painting inspiration came from illustrated jungle books and botanical gardens in Paris.  Henri Rousseau believed that his work was done in an academic style, although he was most widely seen as a professional for his creative style, and the unique ability to take something out of the page of a magazine, a...

This week we are going to meet one more new Artist Romero Britto. He born in Mexico with eight siblings. When he was young his brother showed lot of art books that featured a number of painting, he began to recreated the master's work. There are so many interesting facts in his art and life. One of the most important piece is that he has no formal training, he never attended art school. He developed his artistic knowledge from people he saw and places he visited. He doesn't want to be part of a group of artist and wanted to make something different than the traditional art. He liked to make colorful and unique designs.  Initially he worked as an artist in some advertising campaign. Britto later moved to Miami he started doing a new art with combination of Pop Art and cubism. After some years his work became popular in all over the world. He showed his work at other galleries and museums. The artist also donates money and time to several charities and organ...

Look at these beautiful Lilly Flowers born from a tiny talented artist hands .. Every flower has unique beauty.  My last week kids workshop...Each flower has their own unique beauty...Children aged 5 yrs to 12 yrs were participated in that event. Final work came more than that I expected. For this project you need a cardstock and creep paper, tempera paint and paper plate .

       It is one of the beautiful Indian art. A spectacular folk art from odisha. Patta means cloth, and Chitra means picture. Pattachitra is a picture painted on a piece of cloth. This form of art is closely related with Temple of Puri. Traditionally painters are known as chitrakars. Most of the chitrakar community hails from a village in Puri, Odisha called Raghurajpur.They will do the traditional process of preparing the canvas.Fine cotton cloth coated with white stone powder and gum made out of tamarind seeds. This mixture gives the cloths surface a leathery finish then paint with Colors. Colors are made from natural materials like vegetables,,earth and stone colors. For instance ,to get the white color , powdered conch shells are used. The painters do not use pencil for outline. They are so expert in the line that they some drew with the brush .The final painting is given a special coating to protect it from weather,thus making it glossy . The back of...

Koi fish originate from Japan and represent love and friendship in Japanese culture.This fresh water fish having a lifespan of 200+ years.People used to grow at their pond and pool for decorative purposes.        They come in a variety of colors, not just orange. They may appear orange, yellow, white, red and black.Owners who received their koi fish as a gift are believed to have good luck

     Maharashtra is known for its folk Warli painting.Warli is the name of the largest tribe found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai in western India. Warli painting is the vivid expression of daily and social life of the Warli tribe, used by them embellish the walls of village house.Mostly women are engaged to creation of this Painting.     Painted white on earthy red mud walls, they are pretty close to pre-historic cave paintings in e ... xecution and usually depict scenes of human figures engaged in activities like hunting, dancing, sowing and harvesting.They used skewed bamboo sticks as brush and draw out with paste of rice powder with water as paints on the walls of warli people huts.The traditional warli painting red mud background with white paints.In Modern warli painting people are using different color background.       Warli painting on paper and cloth are become very popular and sold all over India a...

"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.” – Georgia O’Keeffe This week I want to introduce one of the famous American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986).She is a American abstract painter .O'Keeffe painted still lifes, massive flowers, the New York at Night series, southwestern landscapes and stark bones found in the desert. Instead of painting usual size of flowers she painted enlarged versions ... of a single flower, like what you would see if you were to look through a magnifying glass. Needless to say, this fascination resulted in some stunning painting and make her very famous. She has been recognized as a " Mother of American Modernism".  I have done this workshop with my students , they all enjoyed and learned a new techniques.I also tried some of her paintings it was awesome and still i want to learn more . Meet you all again soon with my Indian floor painting...