Peacock design - wood work

I have already shared many peacock designs. Some on sarees which I have printed using screen printing techniques,  and some sculpted in  very ancient temples.
Recently when visited a craft exhibition I could capture. This is wood work from Chittoor Andra Pradesh. 
Here are the peacock designs, the below one is colorful.

Peacock design- wood work of Chittoor

And this is not painted :

Peacock- woodwork - without colors

 Both are beautiful and elegant .

Soon will share about some more DIY, crafts , Saree design and arts.

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana
 

Peacock design in Batik painting

Peacock  inspires many forms of arts and crafts. It has influenced our ancient arts as well as modern arts. 

In fabric and jewellery design we find huge influence of peacock design. You can see some of my works in screen printing using peacock design.

Here sharing, another design which I found on a saree. This is a saree with batik painting. Already I have shared about batik painting in my previous posts. 

This is not my work, but very beautiful peacock in batik painting found on a saree.Here it is:

Peacock design in batik painting

Very beautiful , isn't it? Will share some more peacock designs in the coming posts.

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Peacock design - Carved on stone

This is another design of peacock .   I captured this picture in the campus of Chitrakala Parishad , Bangalore. 
The peacock is carved on a soft stone.

  Looks very beautiful, and the feathers are also carved very beautifully.

The carvings are very simple, but still looks very elegant and looks like white peacock. You can see some more peacock designs , about which I have already shared.

Coming up with many arty crafty stories and designs,

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen printing on plain cotton saree

It had been a year that I could not work on screen printing. I have many beautiful designs of screen. Recently  I had designed a screen printing on a saree, which I had shared in the post : Screen printing on saree after years.
Yesterday worked on another saree. This was also a plain cotton saree in purple color, with very beautiful stripe border in Yellow and Maroon. To design on sarees with plain border is quite easy. Any motif can be used  to design the saree. So I used motif of peacock design along the border :

 Here is the closer view of the motif:

To  match the border I printed maroon and yellow paisley motifs.
The pallu has lines of gold zaree, so printed small peacock motifs on that:

I'm planning design many sarees, and next project is designing the blouse for this dakai jamdani saree with Kamal embroidery.

 Soon will share about the same.
Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Peacock design- carving on Mahabodhi temple

It has been quite sometimes that I had planned to share peacock designs. .  The perfect blend of enchanting colors o the peacock feather, and the pattern have made it used in many forms of arts and crafts.

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 I had designed a saree using glitter paint  and a dress with peacock design.  I love to work for some more sarees with peacock designs. Almost all forms of Indian arts and crafts are influenced by peacock designs, may be its Rangoli, embroidery designs, jewel designs, mehandi designs, wood work or carvings in temples. Let me start the series of posts on peacock design with this carving on the walls  Mahabodhi temple of Bodhgaya.  

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On the outer walls of Mahabodhi temple  there is carvings of Buddha is different meditation postures. Below that the design of two peacocks heading each other is carved.
In another carving the design is  different , the two peacocks are holding a bead strand together.

Both have very beautiful peacock designs.I'm planning to use in my next project of embroidery. Will share the designs once it is completed. I feel it can be used in Rangolis and paintings too. What do you opine?

I will share many more peacock designs in coming posts, in the section: Mayuri

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Kumkuma Bharani with Kundan Designs

For a long time I haven't shared anything about my collections. Again back to boast about my collections of Kumkuma Bharanis :-). About some Kumkuma Bharani  I have already shared in the previous posts:

1.  My collection of Kumkuma Baharanis
2.  Kumkuma Bharani- with Peacock design
3. Paper Mache Kumkuma Bharanis
4. Kumkuma Bharanis made from Seashells
5. Some more Kumkuma Bharanis
6. Kumkuma Bharanis with unique designs   

Here are some more :

These are made of wood  in different shapes and decorated with  Kundan. I had bought these from a Artisan from Nagpuar.

Here are the closer views:

This one is Peacock design, with a lid and 2 sections :

This one is  leaf shaped with three sections. The lid can be slided:

The below one is conch shaped, and lid can be slided. This  also has 2 compartments. 

All are beautifully decorated with colorful Kundans. My favourite is always peacock shaped one. I'm crazy about peacock designs :-)

Recently saw some scrap metal work. Share about those in the coming post,

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana 

Kumkuma Bharani- with Peacock design

I've shared about my collection of Kumkuma Bharanis( Container to store Vermilion) in previous posts:
My collection of Kumkuma Baharanis
Some more Kumkuma Bharanis
Paper Mache Kumkuma Bharanis

One of my friends,  gave me a Kumkuma Bharani-made of paper mache , which she bought from Kashmir. My collection is increased :-)
Here it is:

 

I have some Kumkuma Bharanis, with Peacock design. The below one is made of Silver, with Peacock shaped handle on it.

Another Peacock shaped Kumkuma Bharani. This is also made of metal, and painted with blue color.

And it can be opened by sliding the upper part. It has 2 compartments, for Haldi( Turmeric powder) and Kumkuma( Vermilion ).

The below one, I like the most. It has very nice design with Kundan attached . This I had bought from a craftsman from Nagpur( Maharastra)

It has a lid and two compartments.

The next one is wooden , in Peacock shape. 

It has sliding lid and two compartments.

                Aren't these worth collecting?

I have completed Kutch work on salwar top, tatted some motifs , enthusiastic  to take you through a craft street ....so many more to share with you in coming posts. 

-Until then

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen printing On Cotton sarees

Last month , I had to travel, all were unplanned. I enjoyed travelling. But it was very strenuous .In between screen printed on 3 cotton sarees.
The below one I had bought for my mother; Black with red border. Screen printed it  with peacock design.

The closer view of Peacock motif:

Similar saree I bought for my mother in law too, Golden yellow and red combination. Screen printed the saree with two colors- Red and Cream; leaf and flower motifs all over the saree.

 Here it is:

And the below one is order from my friend, Maroon and Green combination. Used Green and Gold color paisley motif on the border and small paisley motifs on the pallu;

Closer view of Paisley motif:

I liked the Maroon saree the most, which one do you like ? 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Saree with Peacock Design in Glitter Painting

On this saree I've used Glitter painting. Attached an off Gold color lace on the border, used peacock shaped kundans and Peacock Design on the Pallu.

Closer view of the border:

Peacock shaped Kundan and extended the peacock feather design with Blue and Gold color glitter paints.

I liked the Peacock shaped Kundans. Aren't they pretty?

 

The pallu  with big Peacock Design

I  got this design from Screen printing class. Got it enlarged. It was really very tedious task to transfer the design.

Now, not able to decide on color of the blouse, Peacock blue or Off Gold? 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen printing - Peacock motif

This is a plain black saree with Golden Yellow border. The owner of this saree likes very simple designs. So printed this with Peacock and Paisley designs , in Green and Gold color. Attached Green and red kundans

Printed the Pallu with small Paisley motifs.

Here is the closer view of the peacock and paisley motifs. I always like Peacock and Paisley motifs. These give a traditional look. 

Aren't  these very beautiful? 

In between completed a quilt with cartoon painting on it. 

Next post will have very interesting story behind the making of the quilt,

So until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen printing on a silk saree

I've used screen printing to make over ,many old sarees. This is a new silk saree, on which I used screen printing.

This is my sister's saree. When I saw this saree, I liked it very much . Some creative idea flashed in my mind.When I told her about my idea, her first reaction was big "Noooooo!". :-) Expected! Because already I had spoilt two sarees of her.:-) I begged in front of her, but she was reluctant. I promised her that if I spoil this saree, I would buy her two srees. Then unwillingly, she gave this saree. Still she had doubts!

While printing on this saree, I took utmost care, as if its saree of any Goddess and if its spoilt I would  be cursed by the Goddess :-) 

The result is below :

I used one of my favourite Peacock motifs. I have already used this motif to design a dress. In between printed peacock feather motif designs.

And on the Pallu again Peacock feather motif design.

Here is the closer look of the peacock motif

My sister is happy to see this. She is planning to add some Kundans on this. She tried to find out mistakes, so that she could get two sarees from me. But could not :-)

Designing a "Tie and Dye" saree with lace and embroidered motifs. Hope will be completed by next weekend. share that in the coming post,

Till then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Tit for tat

Everyone was waiting for her arrival.  My son could not wait, he went to airport to receive her . He was the one who was missing her a lot. We all too.
She arrived , brought lots of happiness, joy and lots of gifts to everyone. How fast the 15 days passed! We roamed, shopped, chatted ,giggled and also enjoyed gossips.

  Who  is this? I'm telling about my sister in law, who stays in Delhi. She came here after 2 years. Rather than  sister in law, she is my friend. We had lovely moments together. I loved all the gifts she brought for me.
 Who doesn't like these lovely gifts?
A chocolate box, I liked the chocolates as well as the decoration of the box.

And this dress, I liked the neck design, with crystals attached.

Some kurtis( tops) and a saree

I liked this one the most , a shawl with embroidery on it.

 She always likes the dresses I design. I thought this time, I will design something unique for her. As Tit for tat, whatever she has brought for me :-). She had seen the photos of sarees, which I had screen printed. So thought, design a dress with screen printing. My first choice is always blue. This time selected light blue and dark blue combination. Attached a lace,and printed floral vine motifs on the border and floral motifs inside. Attached the kunadan too. She liked this color combination. 

This is another top I designed.

  

 

Selected, Khadi silk in Green color.  Used, emboss painting for screen printing. She liked the big Peacock motif. She also suggested me to use this peacock motif to design my sister's saree. Soon I will share that also.

 This is the one I liked the most. This is again on Khadi silk, I did not use screen printing. I had a lace, which had bought from an exhibition.The lace has Dandiya dance design, embroidered on it. I attached that on the border. Luckily , I had, similar motifs to match the lace. So here is the dress.

 I have some more lace left over, so planning to design a dress for myself.
When can I complete that? Don't know :-(

I liked the Orange dress the most. Even my sister in law liked it.

Which is the one, do you like the most?