Author: Priyanjali Bhattacharya 'Titli'

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Hey all. Today I am going to give you some basic tips on how to use hard pastel. Here’s the painting I recently made on Brustro’s Artists Pastel Paper 160GSM. Unlike soft pastels, hard pastel doesn’t create any powder dust. But still always hold your pastel upright just as pencil to allow the flat sides to make broader strokes. This will also allow the little colour dust read more

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2019 has come to an end. A few minutes left… No I won’t ask you to look back, what you have achieved and what not, how good it was or how bad! Because no year can be super perfect. Yes, doesn’t matter how badly u want it to be an AWESOME; CRAP keeps on happening. And that’s how life goes.

Remember when we were YOUNG, (or even at present the entire human read more

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‘Without patience a sailor I would never be’. I was planning to make series of paintings since long on various subjects. Small but beguiling. That’s how I ended up with the idea of creating landscapes of barques and this is one of those. The painting is simple. I made it on A4 sheet with dry pastel. Yes, the one messiest pastel as it tends to destroy everything read more

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Since the previous post was all about colours and abstraction, I thought of putting a simple sketch this time. Yes simple yet a bit to learn. As you can see, this is a portrait of some random girl. To draw I used charcoal and staedtler both of which give a pretty realistic effect. So when you are making any sketch you need to know a few things- first understanding the light, second the read more

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This is one of my favourites- ‘My Holy Grail to Live with and Believe in’. Generally when I sit with my colours and canvas and papers and brushes I don’t exactly think or visualize what to sketch and how to portray. People say that painting is all about imagination but the question is how distant you see to it. Can you exactly depict what will its final read more