I am learning to use colours, trying to get the exact shades by mixing colours

Learning to paint in water colours

This is my latest fascination...learning to paint using water colours. Again something I have been wanting to do forever. I love the softness of pictures painter with water colours, the transparency of the medium..There are 3 of us in class, which is held in my friend Jyoti's (a practicing) art gallery. Its a lovely space in a quiet part of Kolkata, and certainly inspiring.
This is my first attempt...a sprig from a bougainvillea plant, and I felt very pleased when I finished it. Habib, the teacher, is a gentle soul and spends his time telling me not to be afraid to experiment and that I need to practice. So lets see where this takes me....

Beginnings......

Its exciting to be starting this blog. Seeing my children creating their own blogs, or introducing me to others which are so amazing, creative and moving....I have decided to start my own.
Its the age I'm at, a point when the girls are grown and I move on to the 'introspective' phase of my life.... a point when I do want to be quiet, and think through those moments which were my very own...those bits of needle work I did, the drawings I made, the recipes I created which added a fullness and made me grumble that I never had enough time to do all I want! In retrospect, though, I have given quite a bit of time to my 'creative' side.