http://sharikaroland.com/blog Reflections on Creativity and Life Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:09:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/remember-me/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/remember-me/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:30:56 +0000 Sharika http://www.sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=1438 Remember Me is a painting that happened because of a look in her eye when I was in the middle of painting. It reminded me of when you think back wistfully about someone that you loved and now they are gone. It is sort of a little pain and sweetness all at the same time. [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/remember-me/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/january-roses/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/january-roses/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:57:01 +0000 Sharika http://www.sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=1443 I feel compelled to tell you about the “Roses in January” painting. I did it in a fit of needing to be in a garden and needed to feel the sun on my face and smell the sweet scent of roses. Deep in January is the coldest time in the world here and the most [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/january-roses/feed/ 1 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-smallest-thing/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-smallest-thing/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:07:34 +0000 Sharika http://www.sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=1433 I was working in the studio the other day and this little thing caught my eye. That little thing became a whole painting. Even though I usually start from something bigger than a little fluff and a slight curve of a lip, It is not necessarily better to start more prepared. A little fluff and [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-smallest-thing/feed/ 1 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-pivotal-point/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-pivotal-point/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:44:10 +0000 Sharika http://www.sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=1385 Every show has a point where you are painting and painting then you see what the show wants to be. This is the pivotal point. You may have to go back and make the other paintings get into line with the pivotal one/ In fact you should. The pivot is the turning to what makes [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/the-pivotal-point/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/nudes/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/nudes/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:19:10 +0000 Sharika http://www.sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=76 It turns out the nudes I did actually are  more than symbolic of  the feeling you get at soap lake. Apparently  people still do bathe nude there on the west beach. Well they must have felt it so much that they actually still do it. I hope this is a good thing for my show. [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/nudes/feed/ 0 http://sharikaroland.com/blog/4/ http://sharikaroland.com/blog/4/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:21:56 +0000 Sharika http://www.sharikaroland.com/blog/?p=4 An elfish young woman. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday was the archetypal, unforgettable, adorable gamine. Gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child. The word was used in English from about the mid 19th century (for example, by Thackeray in 1840 in one of his [...]]]> http://sharikaroland.com/blog/4/feed/ 0