Surya Dev: The Sun God

With the power to give and take life, the sun, is the most powerful of the elements that surround us. Resplendent in the blue skies around him, Surya Dev or the Sun God can only be bowed to.

Street Hog:

On a Moonlit night, riding over the darkness, feeling the breeze, breeze past you. The feeling is second only to that of being in Heaven. The Hog rules the streets, the night and even the moon.

Mahadev:

When we think of Shiva, the Lord, what really comes to our mind is the entity embraced by the Damroo, the third eye, the Ganges and the Moon. This is an attempt by me to recreate the aura of the Lord, without actually painting him.

Life

And isn't this how life is? Complicated and wound up in circles and yet...so colorful. A myriad mixture of the best and worst of colors signifying the best and the worst times of our lives. Life indeed is beautiful.

The Third Eye

The Kumkum of the Indian woman, also symbolizing the third eye. The mark of the divine, the Goddess. I don't know what the inspiration behind this sketch was but it did come and it came on Mother's Day. 

The Invisible Ganesha

It's not just surprising but amazing how the Lord Ganesha manifests himself in so many of my drawings. I wouldn't call them drawings or sketches, they are just doodles but then I just flow, I flow as if there is an invisible hand holding my hand as I just splash the colours across my phone's screen. And the result, is this!

The Kosmic Eye

This is something that came out. I have no explanations to it. Call it abstract, call it the universe expressing itself through my eyes, I have no clue what this is about. But I prefer calling it the Kosmic Eye. A combination of Karma and the Cosmos watching over everything we do, everything that we are and everything that we have become. Its the Eye of the Creator, forever alert to all the Good and Bad in this world.

Karmic Rocket

Sometimes, the mind acts like a rocket, with the thoughts playing the propulsion gear. Some thoughts make us feel good, some make us feel sad. Its after all karma.

The Beach:

A dream, life by the beach, on the phone :)

The Flag

Need I say More?? It was a thought, a couple of brush strokes and I had the national flag, everything that we stood for, ready. Vande Mataram...

The Joker

Had been playing around on sketch and draw on the mobile and came up with The Joker..Sad but entertaining

Art Attack

Lately, after my tryst with Pixlr and the varied weird art forms, I decided to move on to the next step, trying to find a place to put up the art. Oh no no...not an art gallery but something that is more publicly visible. Something where the people can actually see a painting made by a loser nerd in a dust ridden, hotbed. And so I hit upon the idea of putting it all out on tee shirts. What the heck, I have read a hundred meaningless words on tees. People have crazy stuff they call art on their coffee mugs. So what does Vinayak Gole do? He finds sites on the internet where people can actually select his art work.

Well then, I have created a store on http://www.zazzle.com/worldofwords ... The art is just about spilling out, the words are just about making sense and life is just about making sense. Now for how long, that is the question. However, the best thing is, I have something new to play with and there is some more hope that the fun doesn't end very soon in this world.

Many a times we forget that the internet is not just about Facebook but much much more. But it takes more than an iron will to break away from the Facebook addiction. Mine...is a work in progress. Next stop...http://www.cafepress.com/rambling1 .

The Heart

The Heart is funny. It has its share of sins and it has its share of benevolence. Its weird how the fight is constant. With different emotions playing, love, hate, peace, restlessness, ambition, pain, passion, compassion, revenge, forgiveness, the heart is perhaps the most complex repertoire of moods. An angel sometimes and sometimes, the devil himself.

Why

I have no clue why I did this one. But I guess, that's how the word spells out. Why. There are no reasons and no answers why we do certain things. Or why certain things happen to us. And we are left asking. "Why?"
But every "Why" has a flip side, a side which is a lesson, a learning. And I guess that's what I have tried in this.

Hanuman

Another attempt to paint the Monkey God, using Pixlar. I guess I need to practice more...

Bal Hanuman

On a Friday night, thought I should have something for the Lord Hanuman, for Saturday. And what could be better than Bal Hanuman rushing after the the Sun God, thinking of him as a fruit. This then is my dedication to the most powerful, the most tough God out there. Jai Veer Hanuman!

The Lonely Sea

Wanted to try out something different with pixlar and couldn't think of anything really nice so decided to just let it flow. Always had this image of a boat struggling against the deadly sea. Wandering, beaten down but never defeated. Waiting to reach the shore. Waiting to live. And somehow it felt so true to our lives, we fight endlessly, with ourselves, our minds, our worlds, believing that someday life would be better. My dedication to all of us mellow fighters down there. Waiting, fighting, struggling, Winning!!!

Ganesha

One of my first experiments with Pixlar. My experiments have always been attempts to paint my mind using simple brush strokes. It was Ganesh Chaturthi and the mood was more than festive. As I sat down unaware of what to do with the brush provided, I decided to close my eyes and visualize what was going on in my mind. And all I could think about was the Lord. In all His simplicity, the strokes have brought about my vision of someone whom I have been praying to for the last 14 years. A dedication to someone who is always there.