You are invited to the Sunnyvale Community Services Auxiliary Team Holiday Boutique

 The Sunnyvale Community Services Auxiliary " Holiday Boutique" is happening  on Friday, October 28,2016: 3 pm to 7 pm and Saturday,October 29,2016: 9 am to 4 pm located at 725 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale ( Between Wolfe and Fair Oaks). 

This year I am a part of the Auxiliary team and you can find some of my handmade greeting cards, candles, paintings  and other baked goodies. 

Some more information for you about this Boutique

Sunnyvale Community Services Auxiliary Holiday Boutique
What: Handmade and heartfelt gifts for the holidays !
Ornaments, quilts, jams, baked goods, pet corner, jewelry, gifts & more.

When: Friday, October 28,2016: 3 pm to 7 pm and Saturday,October 29,2016: 9 am to 4 pm

Where: 725 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale ( Between Wolfe and Fair oaks)

100% of the proceeds benefit Sunnyvale Community Services ( working to prevent homelessness and hunger). 

www.svcommunityservices.org

Here is a sneak preview of some of my items that you will find at the Boutique. I don't have pictures of the beeswax candles that I made earlier, but you will find them at the boutique.

Holiday Greeting Cards

Birthday Greeting Cards

Update: I sold the above greeting cards at this show. 

Birthday Greeting Cards

Update: I sold the above greeting card at this show.

Pen and Ink Bookmarks

Update: I sold the above bookmarks   at this show.

Holiday Gift Tags

Update: I sold the above gift tags  at this show.

Warli  Style Greeting Cards

Update: I sold the above  warli  greeting card at this show.

Doodled Greeting Cards

Title: Winter Snowflakes
Medium: Mixed media on 18" by 14" canvas

Title: Hoot Hoot!
Medium: Pen and Ink on Watercolor Paper
Size: 9"by 7"

Update: I sold the above painting ( Hoot Hoot )  at this show.

Below is the postcard for the Holiday Boutique

Thank you for visiting my blog.

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Folk Paintings from India made using the iPad

Here are some folk paintings from India  which I painted  using the iPad. 

Title: The Proud Peacock (Madhubani Painting)
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Procreate

Title: Come Dance with the people of Warli
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Paper by 53

" Pray not only because you need something but because you have a lot to thank God for." -- from the Ramayana 

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World of Warli Paintings

The Warlis or Varlis are an Indian indigenous peoples, who live mostly in Dahanu and Talasari talukas of the northern Thane district,  parts of Nashik and Dhule districts of Maharashtra, Valsad District of Gujarat and the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.They have their own beliefs, life, customs and traditions, which is the part  of the Composite Hindu Culture. The Warlis speak an unwritten Varli language which belong to the southern zone of  the Indo-Aryan languages, mingling Sanskrit, Marathi and Gujarati words. The word Warli is derived from warla, meaning "piece of land" or "field".

Their extremely rudimentary wall paintings use a very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle and a square.The circle and triangle come from their observation of nature, the circle representing the sun and the moon,  the triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees. Only the square seems to obey a different logic and seems to be a human invention, indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land. So the central motive in each ritual painting is the square, known as the "chauk" or "chaukat", mostly of two types: Devchauk and Lagnachauk. Inside a Devchauk, we find Palaghata, the mother goddess, symbolizing fertility.

 Significantly, male gods are unusual among the Warli and are frequently related to spirits which have taken human shape. The central motif in these ritual paintings is surrounded by scenes portraying hunting, fishing and farming, festivals and  dances, trees and animals. Human and animal bodies are represented by two triangles joined at the tip; the upper triangle depicts the trunk and the lower triangle the pelvis. Their precarious equilibrium symbolizes the balance  of the universe, and of the couple, and has the practical and amusing advantage of animating the bodies.

The ritual paintings are usually done inside the huts. The walls are made of a mixture of branches, 

earth and cow dung, making a red ochre background for the wall paintings. The Warli use only white for their paintings.Their white pigment is a mixture of rice paste and water with gum as a binding. They use a bamboo stick chewed at the end to make it as supple as a paintbrush. These  paintings are done only for special occasions such as weddings or harvests.

To lend authencity to the orginal art form I have used brown/red ochre colored cardstock as the painting background and white acrylic paint instead of rice-gum paste. Also I used a fine brush and a white marker pen instead of bamboo sticks.

 Here's the photo of my  Warli painting.

Warli Painting Draft

Warli Painting

Do feel free to drop in your comments.  Happy Painting!