Happy 2014

Wishes for the new year... may the happiness stay forever!

Man made Gold

The Golden Jaggery of Kolhapur gets GI rights!

I have been fortunate during my childhood for having been served this golden jaggery directly from Kolhapur through my maternal grand father. And my mom still get her share of stock every year.

Can you imagine maharashtrian brahmin cuisine without the use of jaggery/gul? I cannot!
It is one of the ingredient without which my kitchen is incomplete. Gul poli, til gul, puran poli, modak, ghavachi kheer, amti, vangyachi rassa bhaji... name it and life is more live-able!

Thursday Blues

Colorful Blots

Today Google doodle is dedicated to Hermann Rorschach, known for the famous Rorschach Ink Blot Test for psychoanalysis.

As a kid, I loved making such blots and I still do...
What I like is the fact no two blots are alike, they are accidental and cannot be controlled. They are magic! These blots make you think beyond reality, they extend your limits of visualization and creative thinking.

On the birth anniversary of Harmann Rorchach's I get to post some colorful patterns I developed using the blot technique.

more color...

Recently I got a new set of Winsor & Newton water color and colored drawing ink... have been exploring them on and off. Will keep posting things... like the one below which I like. Do you?

Gandhi

Packing

Happy Sunday

Few weeks back I planted green chilies... now the little saplings have grown 6 inch tall :) 

I painted them today!

Saturday Night Saturday Bright

Modak

A surreal modak for my blog but a real one at home!