#GaneshaAtArtLounge Winners & Noteworthy Entries

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CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST!

CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST!

Ganesha by Atul Panase (www.atulpanase.com)

Ganesha by Atul Panase (www.atulpanase.com)

Let’s welcome Ganesha this year with an artwork that best captures the spirit of Ganesh Chaturthi using soft pastels or chalk. Your subject matter can be Ganesha, a procession, a pandal… we’ll let you come up with the ideas! The work can be expressed from representational to abstraction.

The judges for this art competition are looking for the following criteria:

-Vision or Concept

-Quality of Execution in the medium

-Use of Composition to communicate the vision

Our panel of judges will select 2 winners who will get some awesome Art Lounge swag:­

Grand prize: Strathmore Grayscale paper pad, Canson Mi-tientes Earth Tones pad, PanPastel set of 5, Koh-I-Noor Gioconda set of 24, Pebeo fixative, Factis Soft-Rub eraser, Canson Ingres Vidalon paper
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Second prize: Strathmore Artagain assorted paper, Canson Mi-Tientes white pad, Koh-I-Noor Toisson D’Or set of 36, Koh-I-Noor fixative, Factis Soft-Rub eraser, Canson Ingres Vidalon paper

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Create your best and send it in to admin@artlounge.in before August 28th. Share it on Facebook and Instagram with #GaneshaAtArtLounge. Winners will be announced on September 1st, just in time for Ganesh Chaturthi!

Rules:

1)   You must use soft pastels or chalk on a surface of your choice to create your masterpiece. It cannot be digitally edited in any way.

2)   The work must reflect the theme i.e. ‘Ganesh Chaturthi’. The judging of this interpretation is up to the sole discretion of the panel of judges.

3)   The artwork can be of any size.

4)   The competition is open to all artists residing in India.

5)   There is no age restriction.

6)   This is a single-entry competition. Each artist can send in only one artwork.

7)   A high-resolution scan or photo of the entry must be mailed to admin@artlounge.in before the deadline of August 28th 2016 by 1pm.

8) The final winners must courier their original signed artworks to us in order to receive their prize, which in turn will be couriered by us to them.

So pick up those pastels and chalks and start creating! 

Now launching: Mabef Easels from Italy

 

Since 1948, MABEF has been making wooden painters’ easels with creativity, expertise and care exhibited by the company’s founder, Mariotto Albino Bruno e Figli, whose initials form the company name. By the 1970's, the company had become the symbol of high-quality Italian easels throughout the world, an undisputed presence in France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain and United States; in 1981 the company also landed in Japan and South Africa. Today, the easels produced by MABEF are a symbol of the MADE in ITALY.

The brand’s guarantee derives from a constant and passionate work, which draws strength from the artisan experience and takes advantage of new technological know-how, design and constant focus on quality in order to guarantee a unique product intended to last a lifetime. The ingenious technical solutions and accurately selected raw materials ensure sturdiness in time. In fact, MABEF uses only high-quality solid beechwood that comes from controlled areas where prompt reforestation is ensured (in 2004 MABEF obtained the FSC certification, www.fsc.org). This type of wood is extremely resistant and its beauty increases in time, also thanks to a finish with natural oils, which keep the raw material “alive”. MABEF easels are simple to use, and they allow the artistic work to be set up quickly and easily. They are easy to assemble because they are designed as a kit, and they are also sturdy and reliable, equipped with an international lifetime guarantee.

In recent years, MABEF has paid special attention to ecological and environmental problems, and it has decided to reconvert all its production scrap by recycling it 100%. As a matter of fact, through a complex crushing procedure, wood shavings are turned into pellets, an environmentally friendly fuel which is used to heat the entire company.

Art Lounge is proud to associate with a brand like MABEF that continues to satisfy the most demanding artists, museums, restorers, auction houses and painting aficionados. 

We will have: 

•Studio Easels for various media with inclinations

•Field Easels at a great value

•Lyre Easels 

•Easel Sketchboxes

•Table Easels

•MABEF articles like stools, palettes, clipboards and more!

André Masson: Sketcher of the Surreal

Furious Suns (1925)

Andre Masson was one of the great minds of surrealism. Unlike the painful detail of Max Ernst’s or Salvador Dali’s paintings, Masson drew, and he drew beautifully. Most people think surrealism is limited to detailed representations of the inner psyche of the artist, through impressively large paintings. However, through Masson’s work, one can truly appreciate the beautiful, simple lines ofpen and ink. However, there has been no compromise on the complexity of the drawings.

For example, Furious Suns (1925). Barely noticeable suns are represented by circles, comprising of small lines, while the rays, shown as straight lines seem to almost connect each part of the figures, a blending of body parts, fabrics and more, all which seem to be suspended. 

A particularly interesting piece of his is The Great Lady (1937) which is done in sand, pebbles, seashells and coral. It forms the abstract figure of a woman, with a feather on her head. The incorporation of things such as feathers was a first, however, not for the worst.

Masson was one of the leading figures of surrealism. One need only glance at his beautiful, delicate and complex work to see that.

Explore Amazing Manga with Naschi

Explore Amazing Manga with Naschi

Manga is a style of painting which originated in Japan which broadly conforms to the conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. Primarily found in comic books which are incredibly popular in Japan, Manga is a rich style of Art which is extremely expressive.

Ace Mangaka Naschi has created some awesome work using watercolors and showcased them on his Deviant Art page.

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Beautiful Disney Character Drawings by Hope Hokulani

Beautiful Disney Character Drawings by Hope Hokulani

Almost every girl goes through the phase where she wants nothing more than to be a Disney princess. With their strong and varied characters and broad appeal its natural to want to be like them.

Bringing them to life on her sketch books and papers using markers and color pencils with equal skill, Hope Hokulani recreates their magic and makes us fall in love with the characters all over again.

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Awesome Paintings on Leaves by Janette Rose

Awesome Paintings on Leaves by Janette Rose

Sometimes even the bounds of a notebook or a stretch of canvas can seem too constrained, the edges of a regular shape proving to be barriers rather than enablers of the artistic process.

So what does an artist do? Explore avenues beyond the traditional ones of course. Music Sheets with compositions listed on them, Leaves which have fallen during a fresh breeze during Autumn, maybe just a News Print article which caught your fancy these all open up a bevy of opportunities for your Art to extend beyond what you could have traditionally imagined.

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Amazing Mosaics and Patterns by Radhika Khetan

Amazing Mosaics and Patterns by Radhika Khetan

It's always fabulous to run into budding Artist's at our physical store. It allows us to understand what their needs are and try to show them the best materials they can use. The curiosity they have and the enthusiasm they show is always heartening to see.

During our Grand Sale which concluded recently, we were lucky to run into Radhika Khetan, a 12th Grade student from RN Podar School. She loves Art and Design so much that they were one of the subjects she chose for her IGCSE as well.

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Awesome Drawings by Kate Louise Powell

Awesome Drawings by Kate Louise Powell

Creating Art from an extremely young Age, talented UK artist Kate Louise Powell is an aspiring Illustrator who is currently pursuing her degree from the University of Edinburgh.

The website Caseable caught up with Kate recently and we enjoyed the interview so much that we had to share snippets from it and some of Kate’s incredible work with you.

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Awesome Doodle Art by Lei Melendres (Philippines)

Awesome Doodle Art by Lei Melendres (Philippines)

What is a Doodle?

Wikipedia likes to define it as “A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.”

We happen to think though that a doodle can serve as a conduit into a persons thinking at that point of time. Perhaps they were in a state of conflict and out came a random sketch depicting a battle field or perhaps the mood was more mischievous and abstract and resulted in a funny sketch with quirky characters.

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Amazing Architectural Drawings by Ayşe Bakır

Amazing Architectural Drawings by Ayşe Bakır

Great Architecture is all around us, remnants of the past and deserves to be captured. They are the hulking masses of stone which have come together to be shaped in ways to leave a stamp of their architect on the earth for generations to come.

Artist Ayşe Bakır felt the same way and decided to capture it using some vibrant Letraset Promarkers and Pen’s in his work. The work pulls at the heart strings and awakens the stirrings of travel within us so that we may observe them in person someday. Till then however we must be content to only stare and sigh.

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Reimagining the Zodiac by Damon Hellandbrand

Reimagining the Zodiac by Damon Hellandbrand

We are constantly living in a world of turmoil, the rock we inhabit constantly spinning from night to day and back again. The stars on the other hand seem to be mute observers, silently viewing the various human follies.

Perhaps this very nature of theirs to remain the same inspired our ancestors to see shapes in the sky and ascertain that we were influenced by them and that our destiny could be divined by them. Perhaps these groups of stars unmoving and yet mesmerising considered us their pawns in the chessboard of life.

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11 Pieces of Art which Showcase the Indian Cricket Team

11 Pieces of Art which Showcase the Indian Cricket Team

The Indian Team seem to have clicked and clicked well in the ICC T20 Tournament with a convincing win over the Aussies.

Tonight they face off against the might West Indies Team and we thought of getting into the sporting spirit ourselves with a post that showcases the team in an 'Artistic' Light.

Scroll through to see 11 examples of our cricketers captured by Artists in various forms and Styles.

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Our first memories of seeing something hand drawn are usually cartoons and other animated images.

Seeing them move and come to life immediately captures our attention.

Kapil Tejwani based in Mumbai has drawn inspiration from the same and shared with us his work inspired by Dragon Ball Z and Toy Story. In addition he has also shared an original artwork titled ‘ Blue Devil’

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