preetika dubey::art and other things

Day is done- Nick Drake

When the day is done

Down to earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done.

When the day is done

Hope so much your race will be all run

Then you find you jumped the gun

Have to go back where you begun

When the day is done.

When the night is cold

Some get by but some get old

Just to show life's not made of gold

When the night is cold.

When the bird has flown

Got no-one to call your own

Got no place to call your home

When the bird has flown.

When the game's been fought

Newspapers blow across the court

Lost matches sooner than you would have thought

Now the game's been fought.

When the part is through

Seems so very sad for you

Didn't do the things you meant to do

Now there's no time to start anew

Now the part is through.

When the day is done

Down to earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done.

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12th feb 2011
hello everyone

i do realize that it's been over a month and i havn't been doing my blogger duties very well..
things have changed alott this year..i am back in the big city..i no longer have the luxury of
chauffeur driven car...home cooked food..10 hrs of sleep...and time to make random art..
2010 was dfntly awesome..but it was time to get back on the fast track...even though
my parents didn't seem put off by the idea of their grown daughter spending her whole day in paint
covered sweat pants..:P..
i have a full time job now...still making/drawing things all day long..but its for the company i am
working for.. so can't put my work pictures up here..:/ ...
hopefully i'll have time again to get back to my canvas and twist some more metal sooon..

peace and love
preetika

                                                                                                                   

Jewelry Rendering

i am dedicating December to 

making/painting/thinking jewelry...

shall get back to people painting in 2011..

so before my most "productive year" ends

more metal and stones coming up..:]  

p.s- it takes lots of patience        

painting them tiny little stones..:P         

i took the longest to complete this one...but its finally framed and hanging!!..:D

12th nov 2010

i was recently interviewed by CNBC young turks, here is the link

http://www.yourstory.in/entrepreneurs/women-entrepreneurs/4790-preetika-dubey-founder-preetika-dubey-fine-jewelry

31st oct 2010
Thankyou everyone for your kind words about my work.. i really appreciate it and it keeps me going :)
My new jewelry website is finally  up and running.please go visit http://www.preetikadubey.com

20th october

#work in progress# 

finally started working on a new painting..loving holding my paint brush again after such a long time..

shall be completing this one in a few days 

Meanwhile,yesterday my bestfriend,Akriti and i witnessed the most

awesome sky Ever!...Akriti being a brilliant photographer took

these amazing pictures

you should go check out more of her photography work 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Akriti-Goel-Photography/170133793000997

But i like ice cream.

"Man, I was thinking about unrequited love. I figure it’s best to just walk that shit off. 

Find someone else to be excited about. It’s like if you love ice cream 

but your ice cream man friend won’t give you any. Maybe he’s got a good reason. 

It cuts into profits. Who knows? But he likes you as a friend and wants to hang out anyway.

 It drives you crazy to hang out with that dude, even if he’s being reasonable from his point of view. 

So don’t hang out with him. What, you ONLY like ice cream? It’s ice cream or nothing? Don’t be an asshole. Learn to love donuts." - joey comeau

19 sep 2010

yessss i am getting there with this one....still much is left to do...but yea i am getting there...um gonna make

my grandmother happy soooon :]

11th sep 2010

slowly but surely i am getting there ..with my grandmothers painting...all it really needs

now is 3 days of total dedication....its been about a month now...since i started it..my grandmom has been asking me about my progress on it everyday...she hasn't  seen it yet...i am

hoping she likes it. I changed the painting behind her...completely hated the previous one..if u care to scroll a little below..u'll see what i am toking about...not tripping over this one either..but then there's only so much you can do..soo i decided to get over it,and move on... Still lots to

learn...but i am trying not to get soo bogged down with technicality that i lose touch with the small voice that made me love art in the first place. 

29th aug 2010...

 found one very old John Clare book of poetry while cleaning my drawer today..

there is one poem i really liked...its kinna sad because its about John Clare  still mourning for Mary Joyce after 'nine years' ..

25th aug 2010

Progress on my grandmothers potrait:

still lots left to do on this one..i'll get myself to finish it soon...since i've started this painting my usual pace of working is kinna messed up...on some days i paint lyk a manic...on others i dont even pick up my paint brush...i like where tis painting is rite now...but i am sure it will end up looking very different once its done..hopefully it should look much better.

my favourite painting place...

18th aug 2010

Frida kahlo to Marty mcconnell

"leaving is not enough; 
you must stay gone.
 train your heart 

like a dog. change the locks
even on the house
he's never visited"

16 aug2010

MY BROTHER...oil on canvas 40cm x 65cm

This one is still pretty much a work in progress...i am taking a break from it till da tym its completely dry..

which um guessing will take ages....soo anyways...i've changed my brothers hair a lil...n yea i do realize that priyansh is looking way cooler in his photograph..:p..

Trial and error continues.. 13th aug2010

i am a little pissed off as i've not done any sensible amount of work in the last few weeks,

i've been trying to slow it down , refine it, observe more...learn more.. most of my expirements were rubbish and all have been destroyed .

Before  a routine of routine disappointments and failure becomes my expected aspiration..i need to kick myself up da ass & just get on with it...get up early...coffee on and bang it..get some work done that i won't paint over...on the brighter side of things...i got the news that 10 of  my  rings are ready out of my 1st collection of 25 diamond rings...cant wait to see my designs in metal...:)

as of now i've started my new big project yesterday...painting a potrait of my grandmother on a 90x90cm canvas..

soo yea its a big one...lyfs nice and busy!

"Once you have tested flight you will forever walk the world with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

i just saw Leonardo da vinci's biography...OMG! i am blown away ....he is surely  my favorite historical person..

20 days of painting goel girl.

this is a very special painting as it is 

a gift for my best friend..i was excitied

the whole tym i was working on it..and 

now that this painting doesn't need me anymore,

i have that usual anxiety about my next new blank

canvas..which is staring back at me.

its tym for another journey...and i can only

wish and hope that it turns out to be

 as thrilling as this one.

work in progress #1....after composing my sketch in charcoal i start locking colours in acrylic..

its really loose at this stage and things start to change as new ideas keep comming in..

while some old ones dont turn out as expected

work in progress 2# initially i had 2 photo frames..where the window is now..but 

for days i just couldn't decide what to fill those up with..soo i left it alone and worked

around it for a while..

work in progress#3..my friend loves to read and play her guitar..which is why its there

work in progress#4 at this stage i started working on the lower half and the over all composition 

of the painting , totally ignoring my bstfrnd :p ..i decided to fix her face with another layer of

oil paint later

work in progress#5 i totally gave up the idea of filling in the those empty photoframes and made a window instead.

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this is the first male face i tried painting...its a potrait of one of my bombay frnd

even tho it dosen't look xactly like him..um happy how it turned out..it was quite a change 

from all the ladies i'd been painting...um defntly gonna paint  male faces more often now..:)

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TAHER..

oil on canvas

size-60cm x 80cm