Comments on: New paintings

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:21:24 +0000

Sunil:

I certainly agree with everything that has been said. Am I correct in thinking that you have stepped outside your own cultural context to embrace the unknowns of the New York street? We have been seeing this for some time. But now it appears that you have arrived in a new place.

There is a sense of a fresh start in these, and with it an ability to reset your parameters.

By: Sunil Gangadharan

Sunil Gangadharan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:32:02 +0000

My apologies if I did not reply on time, but I have been a bit busy of late with getting ready for a solo show this weekend, running family errands and some crazy deadlines at work. All together, life has been fairly quick paced – the challenge is to hold onto snippets that you can choose to ruminate on later… – and that is exactly what these fleeting snippets on A&P do for me – ruminate on them at leisure and at length.
I am glad the new directions in my painting are showing some promise and strength. The difficult part is to maintain the tempo, vigor and the character of these works – which I find most difficult; in fact the other day I scrapped a 36X48 inch canvas trying to better some of these works…

Steve,
It will be interesting what comes out of your hoarse project. I do remember the pictures that you took of them the other day being very evocative and hope that they will continue in the same vein..

June
Hmmm… “evoke innocence of naivete ” – not too sure how that is going to work out, but will be interesting to try. Thanks for the thought.

Angela,
Yes, the eyes strike a chord in pretty much anyone that sees some of my works. Hope that continues. I work on the eyes first followed by the mouth and then shadows of the nose followed by the rest of the face.

Iris,
Hope you come back here more often. This is a great marketplace of ideas and you take some and give some and it works very well. Glad you liked the paintings.

Bob,
For some reason I thought you might like the first painting “Battered”… Looks like my hunch was right.

June,
I need to follow up that post on color soon. It is a little dry, but it clarifies thoughts and is sometimes good to indulge in a little bit of theory.

Kimberly a.k.a. Tree (I suppose),
Revealed identities, I suppose.
Glad you liked the paintings and thank you for the kind words.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:31:29 +0000

Wow. You’ve given your subjects an inner light that shines out to the viewer. This is so profound to see; it’s very spiritual and empowering.

By: June

June — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:39:10 +0000

Sunil,

I was directed back to an earlier post of yours (On color and oil paints) by Salley Dulley’s comments. I made a further comment there which WordPress is not displaying. I found that post fascinating and worthy and just wanted to tell you that I looked at it again.

Did you limit your palette in these paintings?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:19:24 +0000

Sunil
I love them. I was not curious about how or when you created them, I just went WOW, Thanks for sharing your work.

By: Iris Wilson

Iris Wilson — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:37:34 +0000

Love – love – love this! There is so much to be said for the “area” or “splotches” of color! It gives the viewer a freedom to go deeper into the painting. I love it!!

By: Angela Ferreira

Angela Ferreira — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:22:48 +0000

I like it! Their eyes transmit their feelings from their hearts…
I specially like the girl… she looks like about to cry. Good portrait!