Graphiti splash on walls!

Last few weeks has been sort of brainstorming for me...had to judge event in design colleges who had to paint the walls in a studio. Being from design background they all had out of the box ideas. I definitely only wanted to encourage them and go ahead with it, eliminating their worries about it being practical! Hey when else can you do all this... Once the final painting was done i was just bowled over completely by the creativity of students.
Event- Kinethesia at Pillai's college of architecture
Theme- Memories.


This one is done by 1st year architecture students.



I personally loved the mixture of emotions and practical elements shown in the form of painting. I reviewed this keeping in mind they were freshers and thought it was wonderful. But wait till you see the rest!


The 2nd yr students had something even better! They discussed about painting faces on wall by making a cut out stencil of all the class students faces and all..and voila! there they have done it. Their memories came across as fresh and full of life :)



Little close shot made me actually believe it is painted indeed!



Kudos to this team effort!



3rd yr gave me a break from all the jing bang abstract art. Guess their memories were going point blank! U know similar to the Doordarshan blank screen..No offense i quite liked this one too ;)

Good use of the existing wire cables. Almost looks like part of the painting




By the time i reached the 4th yr i almost thought the memories are becoming kind of grey and not much colour! They had some spooky ideas too..a human figure hanging head down and stuff..I completely empathize..by this time of college u just wanna get over with it!!!



The memories are now turning to burden of submissions and holding on with your friends for life support!

By the end of the event i was left with just one feeling...Nostalgia!

Ending this post with a shot of Colour store. Do visit for more!

Power of Paint

It's possible to paint almost everything. Walls, doors, furniture, metal surfaces. An artist even painted his bird, but that's not advisable

Paint as a medium is just so amazing to transform anything in interiors. Some pics where paint looks good and well used. Take a look and i am sure your hands would itch to paint something too!



A client's home done with Asian paints wall fashions. Have actually not changed much of the existing interiors except a few furnishings, just repainted the walls.


One of the most prestigious client home in Mumbai. Great experience at this site, greater satisfaction to see it done well.


Another client bedroom just finished in bands. Loved them! Suggested them for blue bands with white furniture and windows.


Lovely texture on one wall and notice the false ceiling and fan painted in metallic copper colour to match up.


Painted my hammock in the garden. Couldn't spare that either;)


This is a 'tea kadai' (kadai meaning shop in tamil) in chennai. Visited this shop some months back.
Loved the mood in there.Free hand artist painting is so beautiful and a great expression of the city itself.
Overall colours used were a rouge red with green doors and chairs.

And there goes another legacy of paint...

Raining colours!

"Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make colours appear."

The best companion for rains is surely an Umbrella. And what better way to spend a Sunday than painting an umbrella itself! A workshop organized by Achyut Palav school of calligraphy for all enthusiastic and interested people in painting and calligraphy on Umbrella painting. Colours and umbrella provided by them, we only needed to carry our free mind and brushes to get started! Inspiring and motivating coordinators and Achyut Palav sir himself guided all those who had attended the workshop. Only instruction given to us was just go crazy and paint your imagination on the umbrella. While we were busy with our painting a rainbow in the sky just peeked down on us! Great experience..I thoroughly enjoyed the session and looking forward to many more such events with the same team. Three cheers for the entire team!!!

Peek into some really cool umbrellas...

Umbrellas before they got painted




Demo session






Our Umbrellas!

Thats mine in the making!

Voila! Its almost done :)


Some of my favourites





Group photo (of umbrellas)

Paint in Style

The world of colours and paints are just amazing. They can do so much to a home. Here are some of my favorite ways of using colour.

A blue-green feature wall with yellow flowers gives so much life to this space.

One of the best ways to camouflage a crowded rack- Splash good dose of colour around. This shelf might have looked shabby minus the colour.

Use colour as a medium to separate spaces- like here window area separated from the living room, yet very much a part of it.


Painting in bands like this gives good character to this entire room.


The idea of painting circles around hooks is so cool!


Stripes are never out of trend and you can adjust the widths of stripes in different colours and make it your own design.



More Band ideas