Today I decided to use the colour blue apart from being a personal favorite it is also a colour that is associated with Lord Krishna. The legend goes that Krishna was the one who popularized the second day of the festival of Holi where he would drench his gopikas with water and colour.
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| Holi series-Blue, Oil on canvas "9 x 6"inches © 2011 Nayna Shriyan |
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To this day, the holi celebrated in Lord Krishna's village of Vrindavan is the most unique. Legend has it that Lord Krishna visited Barsana the village of Radha on the day of holi and teased her and her friends. The women of the village took offence and chased them away with sticks(lathi) . To this day the tradition is followed, men from Vrindavan visit Barsana to play holi and they are beaten with sticks, in the presence of the villagers, nobody gets hurt though!! As I was creating this painting today, I had this mental image of seeing colour splashed on walls, roads every which where after Holi, and tried to achieve that effect. I certainly had a lot of fun creating this painting and it has made me look forward to the big day even more :)
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