Sunday, August 07, 2005

Uncompleted


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Originally uploaded by mayavi.
I have never painted colors before, atleast tried once or twice with acrylic but with oil paints, never. I decided to try for the first time with oil, one reason it gives plenty of room for errors and can be broken at will and continued. (Am I not lazy *hehehe*)....This picture here is oil on canvas started, with no idea of when I would finish. Particularly, the amount of cleaning the brushes and the palette required has literally put me off and infact I cursed myself for deciding to continue later on this.....I did more cleaning than the time I spent on the painting....After all, I cant spend all my money on brushes....

No reference here from which I paint this....just a roadside view of a barren land with the trees offering shelter with the rocks as chairs.

Hope to complete it sometime in the coming weeks.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Hand


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Originally uploaded by mayavi.
Yay !!! Thats my hand, errrr, I mean the wax model of my hand !!! I did this in Niagara for 15$. Well, that was a sick sign. I actually wanted to make a "O" with my thumb showing a sign of approval. But just before dipping my hand into hot hot wax, I guess I moved my fingers....

This is how they did it....I dipped my hand in ice for 2 mins. When it was numb, the lady applied a lot of vaseline on my hand and then straight dip three times into hot wax and leave until it solidifies and then remove it and fill it with dry wax. Thank God, when I had wax on my hand, I thght while removing I wld be waxed of the hair on my hands...Forget how sick it would look, getting the hair on my hand removed - Gosh I can kill myself than being "Waxed" *hehehe*

Harry Potter

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Harry Potter
Originally uploaded by mayavi.
This pic is dedicated to Nat - a Harry Potter fan whom I had promised a gift on my Photo blog
:-). This is one of the statues that was very real.

Wax Museum


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Originally uploaded by mayavi.
On the streets of Niagara, I stepped into the Wax Museum of stars. AH, there were so many pics that I took, but am not posting all of them.

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Majestic Maiden


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Originally uploaded by mayavi.
This is one of my favourites of the snaps that I took this time. Pristine pure, innocent beauty and overwhelmingly powerful - thats what this maiden is all about !!!

Tempest


Tempest
Originally uploaded by mayavi.
The maid of the mist. This is one helluva ride....

For some reason, whenever I see this snap, I get reminded of Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

SKylon - Candian View


SKylon - Candian View
Originally uploaded by mayavi.
The magnificient horse shoe falls from the skylon.

I like this snap better than any I ahve taken of Niagara.

Skylon American View


Skylon American View
Originally uploaded by mayavi.
Last time around, I did not visit the Skylon tower....

Here is the American falls view from the tower.

CanadianView


CanadianView
Originally uploaded by mayavi.
This is the magnificient Canadian Falls. This is the closest I could get and still get the horse shoe in my humble Sony P92 View finder.

The place was way too misty that day that I was so totally drenched and most of my pics werent that good, owing to the mist settled on my camera. Boy, I must have been crazy to even open it in that mist. I guess I was trying to give myself a reason to invest on a Nikon D70s. *wink*

American View


American View
Originally uploaded by mayavi.
Following is going to be a series of pics of my recent visit to Niagara.
This is my second time to the falls. THe first time, I got to do only the Maid of the mist and Journey Behind the falls. However, this time around, I had time to go around the main street and have some fun.

Here you see the The US falls of the Niagara.
For more facts about the falls visit \,
this site.