Ludhiana, April 29
These days, when a majority of
artists are turning to oil paintings, Kamal Kandhari loves delicate
strokes of water colours and has produced some beautiful paintings in
water colours and marker pens.
Kamal says, “Painting has been a
passion with me as long back as I can remember. I always sketched and
painted and won several certificates for excelling in painting
competitions held in Sophia School, Merath, where I did my schooling.
After doing my postgraduation in textile and fashion designing from
Panjab University, Chandigarh, I joined a fashion academy as a teacher.
When my daughter was born four years ago, I had to quit the job, Later,
I took to painting seriously.”
Kamal says she is very experimental and
spontaneous in her outlook, and hence she has tried painting with water
colours. “People do not like working with water colours as there is no
room for any mistake. But then I started making my water colours look
different by using pens. Postage stamps of various countries provide me
with a lot of subject matter. I have many traditional books in Chinese
and Japanese art and I use them as my subjects.”
She has turned
professional now and gets a lot of orders to make paintings for
interiors of houses. Kamal says, “Naturally, I retain the colours of the
interiors, and choose a matching frame. I also make use of colours that
are available in houses. If plastic paint or enamel paint is being used
for painting walls and doors, I make use of them. I like to make sets of
paintings as one piece of painting is out. Sequences of paintings are in
and they provide more interesting material for viewing.”
She loves
paintings flowers in different styles and arrangements. Kamal has made
numerous greeting cards which were picked up by some companies and
marketed, too.
Kamal got a big challenge when she was asked to paint a
mural in oil colours in the school where her daughter got admission. She
thought it was an imposing task as oils have not been her medium of
painting. But she has done an excellent job and the Principal is highly
appreciative of her effort.
Kamal has a lot of ideas up her sleeve. For
children’s rooms, she has prepared paintings in the form of kites and
hung them against a background of clouds painted on walls. She is
equally adept in making fashion illustrations. As if that is not enough,
she is also a cartoonist.
