Friday, April 16, 2021

Durga Ma with her son Ganesha


 This is a painting of Ma Durga holding her son Ganesha in her lap.  I was inspired by Jamini Roy's art collections to do this artwork on the occasion of Mother's day in 2020. The background was my creation. It was done on mixed media paper using acrylic paints. Jamini Roy was a West Bengal artist of the 1800s who had his own style of painting using dark flat colors and used bold lines for outlining the drawings.  His art had a flavor of folk art and the eyes of his subjects were characteristic in all his artworks.

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