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7. How do you set a "price" for a painting?
Let me attempt a definition. Price is a negotiated determination of "value" for an entity that fulfills another person needs, and for...
Krishnan narayan
Jan 13, 20241 min read


8. Heralding the new year with sanguine expectations
Let's take a break and imagine the future. What would we like it to be? A world replete with happiness A world which enables everyone to...
Krishnan narayan
Dec 31, 20231 min read


7. The creative pulse
How do you define creativity? I believe that it is an attitude or habit that allows you to adapt to changing circumstances. Since change...
Krishnan narayan
Dec 17, 20231 min read


6. The beauty of line drawings
In the previous post, I shared with you my beginnings with a Master to learn painting. Continuing that saga, I have now graduated to...
Krishnan narayan
Dec 5, 20231 min read
5. Begin - at the very beginning?
Though I am a self-taught artist who attained a certain degree of skill through repeated experiments, there was a lurking fear that I may...
Krishnan narayan
Nov 23, 20232 min read
4. Let’s brush up our knowledge of painting
Three things are a must for our foray into painting - a surface such as canvas or paper, paint tubes and a set of brushes. Not to forget...
Krishnan narayan
Oct 10, 20232 min read
3. How do you write & teach about painting?
Interestingly, Wix.com, the platform on which I created my website recommends that I write blogs as a means to increase traffic. ...
Krishnan narayan
Sep 19, 20233 min read
2. Let us get the basics right
The fundamentals of color In order to create a painting, you use colors. Colors cover the entire spectrum of the rainbow Violet, Indigo,...
Krishnan narayan
Sep 8, 20234 min read
1. Make art affordable
What is a painting? The simplest definition would be that it is an attempt to transcribe a 3-dimensional object on a 2-dimensional space...
Krishnan narayan
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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