Burst

Last week I wrote a post about imagination and making dreams come true.

This week I've finally realised that dreams and imagination are a result of initiation. Everything has moved in such an amazingly fast and lovely pace that I cant help but wonder where I started and began. I also can't help but think :

I have finally found a "A quote," that's beginning to reveal itself in most areas of my life, courtesy The Beatles :

"The love you take is equal to the love you make"

                                         

This has all coincided with the creation of "Illustration Much," an illustration studio of sorts started by four os us - Me and three of my closest friends from college.

Logo courtesy Anant Ahuja


We launched Illustration Much at Kitsch Mandi this weekend - It's a popular flea market in my lovely home city of Bangalore. The responses and the love we received was immense! And we're so happy to continue putting out more work in the future.










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Love,
Taaneya.

Imagination

This month has been so so wonderful!
I had the amazing opportunity to illustrate for the Kyoorius Design Yatra held at Goa last month!

Focusing on the theme "The Divide," focused on imagination, creativity and of course - 

Making dreams come true.

I love what I do, and my illustration was meant to potray just that.

How waking up every morning to a job you love is a blessing, and how one's heart can move in different rather difficult directions from time to time.

I left Goa inspired, a little sad (I almost considered moving to Goa), but so happy and grateful.

I'd like to thank Kyoorius and everyone involved!

Cant wait to see what's next!

Tall

This month I've said "Hello" to a whole new world.

Adveritising, long days and sleepless nights.

Creative dreams, lots of drawing and color 

(Of course)

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

- T. S. Eliot

Faded

Sometimes getting caught up in a regular life makes you forget the beauty of what you're doing and why you're doing it.Worrying about money and time is an every day thing occurrence in my life, and then I update my blog and I've realised that the beauty of what really matters has certainly faded away.

                             

                             

Must note, every day - The beauty of art and people.And maybe the beauty of things I don't like very much!

Share.Inspire.

Vocal

Sometimes if it's louder it's better

Return

My interpretation of Lord Krishna

We all worship something or someone.And eventually,maybe,we all return to it.

In my opinion, Krishna's probably one of India's (Hinduism's) most charming Gods.

Who,by the way,came to restore Dharma to the earth in a time of great dharmic imbalance.

So Im almost done with my degree project and college,its all happening very fast.But in a good way,Im settling into doing some regular things - getting a job,working and doing what I love.Of course :)

This year's probably going to be quite different and Im looking forward to it.

And there are the other lovely things in life,the things around you..

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Capable

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” 

                                                                                                                          - Thomas Edison

It's true,we're all capable of swimming in the ocean and flying to the clouds.

I've done lots of travelling this month,from Bombay..

To places much closer to home..

The year is just beginning :)

Almost away

Goa 2011!

My new years resolution - Alot more trips in 2012

Good news!Good news!

Thanks once again to the lovely people at They Draw and Cook.

You can check out the recipe here!

* Very grateful.As always :) *

To my dear blog

To my dear blog (Wander Dust,is that your name?I'm really not sure),

It's 3:30 am and as usual, I can't really sleep.So I decided to check you out.I also thought I'd look at my blogger profile which says that you've been active since August 2006.Wow.

   I don't know why I started you.But it happened anyways.I was a 16 year old kid messing around with photoshop and I really liked what I was coming up with.At the time.I don't really approve of my work then now but that isn't really suprising now is it?

   When people ask me why I started a blog I'd like to tell them it's because I really want to know what people think of my work.But the truth is, I'm still and will probably always be very shy when it comes to putting my work out there.The reason I started this blog was to record my work and in the process unknowingly, record my life.

  When I go back 6 pages or 2 years on this blog and I look at my work I can come up with a whole story about what urged me to think up what I did then.And I guess thats the beauty of it.

  Steve Jobs died yesterday.And I came across a quote of his about loving what you do.It was about how you should believe that the work you're doing at the present moment is truly great work.How this belief will only get better as life goes on.It meant alot to me,because I love what I do.

  But let's face it.I go through so many phases.I don't know where I'll be next year, and if I do end up studying curation and art history I only hope I have the courage to pull through.And that courage has certainly come from this blog.Alot of the good things that have happened in my professional life have happened because of this blog.The lovely comments.The lovely people leaving those comments.It's all good.

  Thank you :)

So if I do choose Tumblr or Wordpress to start my writing blog don't be mad.Just be glad I finally got the courage to write!

Love,

Taaneya.

Illustration Friday - Ferocius

I have a sudden liking for flat colors, shifted black lines and fish faced people.

I've come to find that my illustrations change according to my mood-

What I'm reading.And most importantly what I'm thinking.

I guess it's fair to give everything a chance :)

Earth exploring and remembering

There's something about going back to the Valley School.

Everything changes and so much hasn't changed.

There's lots to remember, lots to look back on and people I still have in my life because of that school.