All love designer dresses. Simple designs can be done on plain kurtis to make it unique and special.
Have a look at this green cotton silk kurti. Madhubani design has been done in contrast to the kurti colour. Mirror work enhances the beauty and gives the dress a party wear look.
Hi friends here I am back again with my painting. I Can't think of a day without painting. Whenever I do some drawings or painting in a fabric or canvas , I feel so relieved.
I also tried capturing a small video on painting. This time it's a parrot design in a Kerala set mund.
Hello friends, after so many days here I am with a cotton kurti material, which is yellow coloured and plain. I have already done fabric painting in a similar colour material with light blue and green shades. Check it here. This time the material is filled with red and blue floral designs in the neck and lower border.
It has been a while that I have posted anything new. This lockdown has left me with so many thoughts. I know it's not only me, but everyone and my works did get slowed down. Added to this was our transfer and shifting to a new house and new environment. Just getting comfortable with the new surroundings.
Colourful sarees and fabrics are good enough on their own. But artists can find canvas everywhere.
So I am sharing two colourful sarees I have done long back. These are beautiful sarees with one colour in the body and contrasting colour in the pallu. They look very nice as they are but looking through my artistic eyes I felt to do some painting in them.
I feel still they are beautiful.
Hand painted lotus mural in colourful cotton silk saree
Warli designs or tribal paintings are very easily done in any material. The warli motifs can be done in full black or can be made completely colourful.
Usually hand painting in Kerala sarees are done with traditional designs but here I have chosen warli painting designs. This is something that a beginner can try for a start in fabric painting.
Today I am going to show small and simple design.
Sometimes it happens that we like a saree which is of very good fabric but is plain bordered. Over a period of time we get bored of the simple border and we wish to have some colourful thing on it.
For such plain wears we can do simple small and cute designs and make it look new.
Now here are two such sarees with designs somewhat similar.
Indians are blessed people. We have diverse types of traditional art forms in every field. No one can number them.
Anybody who tries to understand these can find that many of these are related in some way. Also we should not forget that they are challenging in their own way.
Today let's have a look at the Kerala mural painting I have tried in saree.
This is a Kerala saree with mural painting of a lady with a musical instrument. The design has been done in the pallu and in the rest of the saree borders simple round design motifs are given.
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| Hand painted Kerala saree with Mural Painting |
Hi friends!! Today I have come up with two designs that are often seen. Most of us would love to have such a design in our wardrobe for sure.
Here what makes happy for an artist is that these designs looks beautiful in many other colour combination. So accordingly we can customise our choice.
The first design shown is a peacock design. The design motifs are small and finished in green and yellow colour combination. The material is a Kerala set mund or two piece saree which has a green border.
What to draw for my own dress is also quite confusing. There are so many designs and patterns I wish to make. Only thing that is to be taken care of is the colour combination.
These are the second set of kurtis I have done for myself with the simplest designs.
All of us love designer wear. But not everyone get what they seek. Most of us are needed to be satisfied with what comes in front of us.
Sometimes we are just jealous of a piece worn by another person.... like.... Wow!! I would love to have that dress in my wardrobe too.
Surprisingly today I present some of my designs that has given me few satisfied customers.
A bright red silk saree with a wide golden border. In this saree the golden border has been hand painted with big Elephant motifs in again Red and Golden shades.
We all are simple artists. All of us would have tried drawing and painting once in our life. So when we intend to do fabric painting for the first time, it's always like choose the simplest design.
Today I have brought a simple design in a kurti material. As to begin with the design is drawn on to the fabric where it is required. You can use pencil to draw in a light coloured fabric or tailoring chalk for dark coloured fabric. The design may be hand drawn or a stencil can be used.
Now along the outline painting can be done carefully. A thin brush(00) can be used for easy control of painting. Also it doesn't waste colour. It's important to have patience till the end for good results.
Here I have taken a maroon coloured fabric and done simple oval design along the neck, on the lower border and sleeves. The design has been drawn using chalk and finished with yellow and green colours.
I always love white and off-white shades of dresses. When you design on these shades it's interesting and also a bit challenging.
In light coloured fabrics, you can choose any contrast colour to work on. But at the same time it's very important that the design is done in a different pattern to make it attractive.
Here I am with an off-white green bordered saree with sunflower design motifs , that matches with the shades of the saree.
The pallu is finished with big sunflower design and the whole saree filled with small sunflower motifs.
SIMPLE AND BEAUTIFUL 💖!!
There's nothing to explain about this off-white silk saree. It's one type of simple silk saree with golden borders and pallu.
I have hand painted a scenery in orange and black shades and hope it has come well.
The blouse is same running material as the saree, but it would be awesome with the orange and black mixed shade designer material.
I have done fabric painting in many of my dresses and also of my family members. This includes kurtis and sarees mostly.
This has given me more confidence in working on materials for sale as per demand.
Here are some of my kurtis I have hand painted and designed for myself.
A saree in off-white, green, pink and red?? Yes, that's what I have brought today.
So here's this beautiful silk saree in off-white shade, with light green, light pink and golden shaded borders.
I have chosen this beautiful light pink flower design with long stalk and simple leaves in dark green. Also to make a difference, the design has been done in the middle portion of the saree throughout the length.
Each of the pink flower has been finished using five shades. The outer border maroon, inner to that pink then the lighter salmon pink. The salmon pink colour is made still lighter using flesh colour. The centre is maroon colour and outer to that it's yellow. Then the stalk of the flower and the leaves are given dark green shaded with light green colours.
Today I am presenting before you is my own saree. It's an orange coloured silk saree with dark green border mixed with golden shade.
The pallu is finished with green lines over the orange shade and the blouse is same as the pallu.
So the saree is completely plain that makes me happy to work upon.
Here I have chosen to do a hand painted full Kathakali motif .The design motifs are painted with equal spacing on both the upper and lower borders of the saree. Also it is done in dark green and flesh shades that matches well with the saree borders.
Really it feels so good to wear something designed by myself.
