Ganesha Sculpture 2024

This is my 7th year of Ganapati Sculpture creation for Ganesh festival. 

This is made from eco friendly clay. 

It took me 2 days to create the sculpture. Then it needs about 10 days to dry. Once the idol is dry, I paint it using tempera washable paints. Nowadays there are fluorescent and colors with glitter available in tempera paints as well. So the idol turns out to be very attractive. The highlight of my Ganapati this year is the Himachali topi instead of the regular crown. That came about last minute thing during sculpting process, I had not planned it :)  The painting itself took me 2 days to complete. 

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Ganapati, 9 inches tall, Air dry Clay

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Ganapati, 9 inches tall, Air dry Clay

Ganapati, Joy of creation!!

My First Sculpture - Ganesha

In my trip to India, I was looking to spend a weekend with plein air artists. Looking or a group, I stumbled upon a clay sculpting workshop by Milind Marathe in Pune. It was perfect timing, I always wanted to make my own Ganapati during the Ganesh Chaturthi. My wish came true and I was able to learn, below is the picture of my sculpture. It is made from air dry clay and using very basic sculpting tools. No mold used here, all the shapes made by hand!
Next year for sure I will be making my own Ganesha to see how it comes out...
July 29th-30th Ganesha Sculpting workshop

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Ganesha, air dry clay, 8 inches approx