Raja Ravi Varma Paintings Part II – Paintings Based On Hindhu Mythology

As we mentioned in Part I Raja Ravi Varma was a great painter and many of his famous paintings are based on Hindu mythology. He gave life to the characters of Ramayana and Mahabharata with his paintings. He is particularly noticed with his paintings on  Nala and Damayanti,  Dushyanta and Shakuntala. His paintings of mythological characters received accolades from art lovers around the world. See few of his  great paintings based on Hindu mythology.

Goddess Lakshmi – Painting of Hindu goddess Lakshmi

Goddess Saraswathi – Paintings of Hindu goddess Saraswathi

Viswamithra And Menaka – Menaka and Viswamithra sitting in an ashram

Birth Of Shakunthala - Viswamithra refusing to accept his daughter Shankunthala from Menaka

Sakunthala – Looks of love - Sankunthala looking back to Dushyanthan acting as she is injured with thorn

Shakunthala - Shakunthala sitting under a palmyrah tree, lost in thouhts

Shakunthala Pathra Lekhan - Shakunthala writing letters to Dushyanthan after fall in love with him

Sankunthala - Sakunthala sitting with her friends

Menaka And Shakunthala - Menaka and his daughter Shakunthala

Hamsa Damayanthi - Princess Damayanthi talking with royal  swan about her lover Nalan

Swan Messenger - Princess Damayanthi sending the royal swan as a messenger to Nalan

Nala Damayanthi - Nala leaving Damayanthi while she is in a deep sleep

Damayanthi Vanavasa – Damayanti is sitting alone in forest abandoned by Nalan

Kamsa Maya – Kamsa is trying to kill the child, shown maya by goddess Durga

Birth Of Krishna – Vasudeva and Devaki escaping from prison after the birth of Krishna

Yesoda With Krishna – Lord SriKrishna with his foster mother Yesoda when he was child

Yesoda And Krishna

Yesoda Adorning Krishna – Yesoda adorning little Krishna with beautiful ornaments

Bharatha – Painting of Bharatha in forest when he was a child

Sri Krishna Liberating his parents – Sri Krishna along with his brother Balarama liberating his parents after killing uncle Kamsa

Introducing Radha To Krishna

Radha Madhava – Love scene of Krishna and Radha

RadhaIs WaitingFor Krishna -Radha is waiting for her lover Sri Krishna eagerly in garden

Sree Krishna as Envoy –  Sree Krishna, as Envoy of Pandavas in Kaurava Court,

Droupathy With Simhika – Droupathy is taken to forest by simhika who plans to kill her

Droupathi In Virata’s Palace

Sree Rama Breaking The Bow –  Lord Sree Rama breaking the bow to win Sita as his wife

Sree Rama Crossing Sarayu river – Sree Rama along with Sita and Lakshmana crossing the Sarayu river

Jadayu Vadha- Ravana is killing Jatayu who encountering Ravana to save Sree Rama’s wife Sita

Sita Taken By Goddess Earth – Sita’s mother Goddess Earth is taking her deep into at Sree Rama’s court

Sree Rama Vanquishing the sea – Varuna the Lord of ocean, pacifying Sri Rama, angered at the intransigence of the sea to give way to enter Lanka

Santhanu and Matsyagandhi – King Santhanu falling in love with Matsyagandhi

Shantanu and Ganga – Shantanu trying to stop Ganga while trying to throw child in the river

Keechaka and Sairandhri – Keechaka trying to woo Sairandhri

Sairandhri – Draupadi disguised as Sairandhri going to the court of Keechaka carrying milk and honey

Syrendri – Draupadi, in the guise of Syrendri with Virata’s wife

Harischandra in Distress – Harischandra having lost his kingdom and all the wealth parting with his only son in an auction

Arjuna and Subhadra – Arjuna disguised as Sanyasi, with Balarama’s daughter Subhadra

Mohini and Rugmangada – Mohini asking Rugmangada to kill his own son

Shakunthala With her Friends

Amazing Flower Paintings By Leonid Afremov

Leonid Afremov, is a famous Belarusian painter who created a wonderful language in painting with his pallette-knife rather than with a brush. He took his graduation from Vitebsk Art School. He is very much interested to portrait unique land scapes, city scapes and figures through his paintings.

See his great words

“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different mood, colors and emotions. I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art. Thus, I enjoy creating inspired and beautiful paintings from the bottom of my soul. Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depresshis studio was broken into and vandalised.”

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African Art

One may find African art primitive and old, but see the usage of colors, they are rich and satisfying. African art resembles closely with the mural art forms. Like in mural paintings the objects used for coloring are mostly from the nature. These art forms are age old and carry a tradition of its own.

Cool Paintings

The artist is able to provide life to these beautiful paintings.  The landscapes are done with much details and colors are extra ordinary. The skill of the artist is so much so that his works resembles photographs of the plots he has drawn.

Awesome Oil Paintings

Painting is  a method expressing thoughts and imaginations of a person on a canvas. Oil painting is one of the most difficult methods among various forms of paintings. It is supposed that during the mediterranean civilization the Roman , Greek or Egyptians have extensively used mixtures of encaustic , minerals, vegetable oil for painting. But during the 15 th century this technique was lost and got replaced by oil painting. According to Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) the technique of oil painting, was invented or re-invented in Europe around 1410 by Jan van Eyck (1390 -1441). The master piece of Van Eyck, “The wedding portrait of Giovanni Arnolfi and his wife” (supposed to be painted in 1434) is the first creation in this type . Later the great painters like Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Titian improved the method of painting and now it become a challenging medium to master.

Quick drying oil is suitable for this painting. When we consider oil painting the advantage is that the corrections and changes can be made easily. Unwanted colors can be scraped over and over again without damaging the canvas. Here are some beautiful oil paintings.