SoFoBoMo Day-8
May 1st 2008
Ujwala Prabhu - Artist.

We started out with a nice cup of tea on the large balcony facing Baridhara Lake.... the sun was setting and I'd hoped for some nice sky colors. It never happened! The sky went from a pale yellow/pink to dark gray in just 15 minutes.  We moved to her studio and it was fascinating to watch Ujwala setup her easel, place a sheet of paper, and before I knew it there was a beautiful painting taking shape with her bold quick and experienced brush strokes...
A few images posted to  the Log.

I had, on previous occasion, photographed some of her work but never actually witnessed Ujwala at work. I need to go in once more to take-in and try capture a some of the atmosphere of her at work and the «feel» of her studio.....

SoFoBoMo Day-7

Spent a couple of hours at Smita's studio, talking about her new paintings while she was working on a few consecutive canvases with acrylic paint. The most interesting, was how she works some of her paintings up-side-down and gets all the background effects she wants... then flip them over right-side-up and work the details....
Apparently, working with the painting «backward» she looks at her compositions completely differently, and sees things unlike me as a bystander did. Only when she started to point out what was going to happen next, and what the smaller details were did I see it «her way». 
I need to do one more session with Smita and get some of the images I had in my mind but was unable to make today....

More later!

SoFoBoMo day 6 - a bit of expansion.

I'd started out the SoFoBoMo project creating a profile of just 2 Bangladeshi artists - Zeba & Juise.  I'm now expanding it to include a few other artists as well. Rokeya Sultana, a Bangladeshi artist; and 2 an Indian artists living in Bangladesh: Ujwala Prabhu and  Smita Srivastava, all just said yes they would be happy to be featured. GREAT! I am waiting confirmation from a couple of other artists..... hopefully they too will consent. With the addition and expansion, time required to complete this SoFoBoMo is shrinking! I have only until May 20th to get it all done. The actual shooting is the easy part, the final editing and selecting of images; the post-processing and then the formatting of the Scribus book etc takes up a lot of time.