Art by Prerana Kulkarni: Dancers

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Fixing My Bells - SOLD

After about half a year I arrived back on Oil Painting and had so much fun with my palette knife, the wonderful smell of oils is in my studio again, yay!! I took up my other passionate subject - Kathak dance to paint. Last year i.e in Dec 2016 I did my first Kathak dance recital in Irvine with Sundar Kala Kendra Kathak Dance School. Completed one year of training with Guru Smt. Anjani Ambegaokar. At the time of recital, I took lots of pictures with the intention of possibly doing a painting from one of them. That's excatly what I did in here. This was the costume of our "Women's Group", a beginner level group and I loved it. The picture was taken in the dressing room where my friend was fixing her Ghungroos (Bells) before we hit the backstage for our cue.

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Fixing My Bells, 11x14 inches, Oil on Canvas Panel

Code# PK_17_008

SOLD

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Dancing Joy

It was a joy to create this painting - my favorite Dance in combination with my favorite peacock feather!!
Many thanks to Sampada Deshpande for providing me photographs and allowing me to paint from her photographs.
For those who don't know this is Kathak dance - one of the classical dance forms of India. Click here to know more about this dance form on Wikipedia.
The speciality of this painting is that it is mixed media piece with peacock feather and stage painted in watercolor on arches paper; and the dancer is painted in traditional Oil paints on canvas panel.

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Dancing Joy, 16x12 inches, Mixed Media on Canvas Panel

Code# PK_16_018

Here is how I did it: I first sketched the dancer on canvas panel. Then traced the dancer outline on tracing paper. Used carbon paper and tracing paper on top to get the exact outline of the dancer on Arches Watercolor paper. Next I cut out the dancer shape from arches paper. Pasted the arches paper on canvas panel carefully matching the cutout to the drawn dancer on canvas panel. Once the paper was attached to the panel, I let it dry overnight with weights on it.

I first painted the watercolor part i.e peacock feather and stage. Once I was happy with the watercolor part, I let it dry throughly before starting with oils. Now the figure was painted similar to traditional oils but I always paint with palette knife, which is what I chose to do for it too.

I am very happy with the piece and it is my very first mixed media painting!! Love it!

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Live Painting on stage - BMM 2015 - July 3rd

It is hard to believe - haven't posted anything in last 2 months!!
As I finished up the last Spring Roses painting and installation, I found myself occupied in a very interesting project. It was something I had never done before and eventually as the project progressed I got completely consumed.
Before raising your curiosity further, let me just show the end result and then write up the story...
Here it is..
BMM - is Bruhan Maharashtra Mandal

5 x 9 Feet, Acrylic on Canvas, Painted live on stage in ~12 minutes, synchronized with live musicians and dancers

Live Painting - 5 x 9 Feet, Acrylic on Canvas

Each of these paintings are for sale for $600.00 as memorabilia for the BMM 2015 opening ceremony event. Contact me at preranap@hotmail.com, or 949-742-2579

Watch the Video while creating the painting. An incredible experience!!

Now the story:
There was a 12-13 minute Jugalbandi item within the Opening Ceremony for BMM 2015. This item consisted of 3 different dance forms - Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Flaminco - pair of dancers for each dance form. Dance was performed to live music - Tabla, Pakhawaj, Flute and Vocalist. While the dancing and music was performed there was painting being performed on stage portraying music and dance through colors.

Here are individual paintings -