‘ A picture is a poem without words’

– Horace.

THE PAINTING

Modern Art has always been one of my favorite art forms of all the times. This painting of Lord Krishna is one of my favorite from my collection of paintings. The painting above is of Lord Krishna with Radha to the left and Rukhmini to the right. Rukhmini was  Lord Krishna’s wife and hence you can see that Krishna is slightly inclined towards Rukhmini. It took me five days to complete the drawing and another two weeks to complete the painting. This painting is done using the Modern Art style. In Hindu Mythology, the Gods are shown wearing too many gold ornaments and are painted using bright colors and then there’s a lot of detailing work that goes into it. Even the figures are tiny and quite sharp. Here, I’ve simply done a shading using strokes and not given too much detailing to a character.

LORD KRISHNA

Colors used for strokes and shading are Black, Persian blue, Sky Blue and White. The color of his face is not too dark and not too light. I’ve simply given a wash of Light Blue to the face. The body has vertical shading starting with White then a lighter shade of blue and finally a darker one. Its a simple shading with patches of Black in between. There is also a cap like turban on his head to make it look more artistic.

RADHA AND RUKHMINI

The colors used in these figures are White, Grey and Black. Again a simple vertical light-to-dark tone shading has been done here with patches of black in between. A really interesting thing that you may observe here is that Lord Krishna and Radha are standing very close to each other whereas Lord Krishna is more inclined towards Rukhmini but the level of proximity is not that close.

THE BACKGROUND COLOR

The background color is a shade of White, light blue and dark blue towards the left and a shade of Crimson Red towards the right. Surprisingly, the only color between the two backgrounds that merges both the colors is Yellow! A slight tint of it makes it more lively. There are flowers on either sides of the painting. They don’t have any resemblance here. The border surrounding Lord Krishna is Dark Blue that merges into the Crimson Red on the other side.

I had painted this roughly five years before and the colors are still the same. It was painted on an A3 sheet and the colors used were Poster and Acrylic paints. No oil paint was used.

Thank you for reading this 🙂