Beautifully abstract lord Ganesha painting/print on Creations Art Gallery

It is one of the most beautiful abstract paintings of Lord Ganesha I have ever seen. Artist Suchita Pawar has excellently depicted the most striking feature of this Lord Ganesha, which is the trunk, with little shapes that Lord Ganesha is comprised of or is fond of. Other than this the peculiar aspect, rest of the painting is drawn with smiling and calm eyes of the God, making us believe that everything will turn right if we put full faith in it. Also the shades of blue color are indeed used with utmost care. It is painted with acrylic color on canvas base in its original form. On Creations Art Gallery of ours, we have various forms of products that are made up of this painting, such as reprints, reprints with framing, metal prints, mobile covers and many more. Check out yourself at following URL:

100th Sale on the Art Shop and an artwork image sale subsequently :-)

It has been a long wait, as they say before a great joy of 100th sale. I will inform you all about the customer and her own joys in her own words very soon. In the meantime, I really feel that my father is getting to live beyond his lifetime via the energy being passed on from one thing to other, from his soul to his artworks and through his artworks to the buyers that deeply connect with his artwork.

As part of celebration of this 100th sale, I shipped the artwork via courier and not regular post at my own expenses. Hopefully buyer C H Howell has by now received it or is soon to get it much earlier than expected.

I am also getting to improve my shipping options further depending upon the type of artwork whether it is canvas or paper based or something else. The type of artwork will decide the best suggested shipping option from my side. Of course buyer can override it if for e.g. it gets too expense for him or her to pay courier charges and is ok with regular post which is more time taking plus at the risk of - for paper based artworks- being not handled 100% carefully by regular post option. Of course from my side the shipping quality will be equal in both cases, regular as well as courier, just that each mode offers different pros and cons.

Lastly, there has been 101 th sale as well which was a sale of downloadable image of the artwork by a yoga institute owner, Mary Bruce, in the US. She has used it for her website http://www.marybruce.com/parayoga-invocation.html and I am thrilled about it She has also given due credits to the artist - Chintaman Rudra- my father and my artshop. 

Helen Homes- My valued buyer talks about her best friend Lord Ganesh

I recently got opportunity to interact with Helen, my sweet buyer from etsy shop, and she expessed that lord Ganesh is her best friend. She kindly wrote to me about this bit of a story as to how the friendship happened. Read on-

Ganesh is my best friend. I knew about him and Hinduism on a superficial level but last year my nephew had the good sense to marry ayoung lady from Mauritius whose background was Hindu.

She really is a special woman and I remember saying to her when I met her for the first time that "I loved her elephant."

After reading away and participating in their Hindu wedding ceremony I found I was becoming very attached to Ganesh and his story is so filled with wonder that he will be my friend forever. And he does listen ...and does remove obstacles.

Happy Ganesh (Ganesha) Chaturthi , Elephant God Festival Celebration in India and across the world

With upcoming festival of lord of wisdom, our dear elephant god, Ganesha whom several people across the world worship and admire for its virtues, let me wish you all happy festive times. My father particularly had such a strong hold and fine brush with Ganesha paintings. Of course he did several other arts as well, such as other folk art paintings, nature paintings, abstract, at the same time I think Ganesha paintings were so nature of him.

In his abscence, I am part of close team of artists who paint in their own great style and we have several new works. Hope the watchers and shoppers of my shop will love those as well. Visit Lod Ganesha section of my artshop at http://creations1000.etsy.com or follow the shop link on the right side of this blog.

Price Increase - Justified

As I have announced on my etsy shop http://creations1000.etsy.com/ since last one week or more, I am taking the shop artwork and item prices through a revision, as I complete 2 years of the shop on 10th Feb 2011. It has indeed been an exciting journey for me with several learnings, joys of sales, shipping, feedbacks, improvisations with help of my family, friends and all artists associated directly indirectly. When there are several prices around that I pay for day to day items and I have no control on or get an explanation for price-increases, I feel even more stronger need to justify impending price increases to my customers. I very well am aware how as a buyer feels when the prices we are used to are higher than what we are used to.

Well in the end it is a supply chain isn't? It's a trade off between giving best quality product and service at best price and at the same time, earn enough profit so that your business sustains, grows and you can continue to provide your buyers better services, products with greater innovation and improvising upon quality in a continuous fashion.

With all said, fact is my (our) own supply costs are increasing, be it for example, the material cost for the artworks, usage of better packing material requires better packaging products, increased transportation costs from the time I started and many more. Plus all of us the fellow etsysellers do pay etsy commission as well as paypal commission and I am grateful to all these e-commerce entities involved including google by itself that helps with online purchases appealing despite being a 2D media for selling 3D objects.

Above all, there is value for creativity which is so hard to measure..but it still needs to be measured somehow, in order to be bought or sold. I believe in my own creativity, be it creative writing for products specs, be it photography of the art works and art supplies, be it being an explorer who is constantly searching for the something creative and appealing, be it believing in my own aesthetic sense. I believe in my father's artwork that he has been doing for years as an artist from well known art school in India (JJ school of art) and years and I have been seeing for years and years. I believe in Sri's photography art which is showcased on my shop, I believe in all artists associated with my shop. I believe in all the business suggestions given by my husband and endless thought process gone into making creations-the art shop where it is now.

At the same time in order to attain better growth and also after careful observation of online offline market in terms of prices, I have finally decided to make some increases to the pricing, depending on the item to item. Hope this justifies price increase enough and I assure you that prices would still be reasonable and you will continue to provide us business and help us grow. Thanks.

Exclusive Ganesha Painting Reprints Set of 6

I created this collage to represent the set of 6 reprints of original paintings from my shop, and made available to buyers as a package. I used collage feature of Picassa tool for the first time and it was fun indeed. The actual set will be that of 6 reprints each for one of the painting shown in the collage. Here is the link to the listing: http://www.etsy.com/listing/67099847/ganesha-elephant-god-exclusives-painting

An excellent home decor, wall decor of gifting artwork. Each print will be signed by my father, the artist before we ship your order. Happy browsing, shopping from my shop.