Fire Star Arts

"some Chinese herbal tea, with a fairly icky undertone, but I like the collaged label, which shows a rickshaw at rest. I overcame my problem of watercolouring on this paper - the water just beaded up - by using my Caran d'Ache Neo Color II watersoluble crayons. I'd never really used them, but here they work well, with just a light wash of water at the end. They're opaque, like gouache - who knew?

The three gents at the bottom of the left-hand page - I don't know if you can see them properly, and I haven't done them justice, but I drew them from a traditional painting in our room, which shows gods, men, women, animals - a huge cast of characters in horizontal bands, with gold leafing. It's quite beautiful. It was only as I was drawing them that I realised that the original artist had decided that the man in the middle was well-supported by his companions, and didn't really need to have legs of his own.

The right-hand page: two leaves from a palm just beyond our verandah; and a lily from the bouquet on the coffee table."

"View from the hotel where we are currently vegetating, in Bangalore..."

Visit Fire Star Arts, Nancy Gandhi's beautiful blog

A special shoutout to Neil Carr and friends in
Cape Town, Johannesburg and Parow, South Africa

Comments

[Joy]

Thanks for featuring one of my favorite art blogs. I love Nancy's drawings and watercolors.

[Neil]

Thanks for the shoutout.