January 20, 2017
December 30, 2016
Wish You An Inspired New Year 2017!
"What would you attempt to do,
if you knew,
You Could Not Fail?"
This Christmas, I noticed this amazing quote outside a church.
It got me thinking.
Instantly.
It was as if some angel stood behind me, softly whispering those words in
my ear...
The answers to her question were many. Actually more than I had thought!
Later, I searched the web, and found out that the quote is by American pastor Robert Schuller.
This very simple query presented before us by the late pastor has a very clear
message.
When we take the fear of failing, out of our equation, and then ask ourselves this
question, then only we know of our true aspirations. :)
New Year is all about new dreams and new possibilities! So I decided to share this quote with all, and design
The next step was to decide one of my photographs to use for the wallpaper.
Now, to me, nature has always been a
strong source of inspiration, even motivation, for my creative endeavors.
I always
try to see some great lessons quietly hiding in those seemingly simple things in nature.
My
“Conceptual - Nature” gallery of photographs is made with some of such moments
where I had stopped to observe and learn. I can write a blog post about my
contemplation over each of them (and I certainly plan to do so whenever time
permits :P).
For now, I picked this, one of my all time favorite compositions made by me, for the wallpaper!
It was in the outskirts of
Larnaca Cyprus... I had stepped inside a farm to take some pictures of hay rolls.
That’s where I had spotted this tiny yellow wildflower attempting its way up and out of the tall wild grass blades it was surrounded by…The surreal feel of the
scene has still not stopped to amaze and inspire me... :)
Her attempt resonates so well with the question:
"What would you attempt to do,
if you knew,
You Could Not Fail?"
I wish your New Year is all about knowing the answer to above question and pursuing those answers with all your heart!
WISH YOU A FABULOUS 2017! :)
Download this HD wallpaper for your Desktop Here!
Copyright ©2016 Gyaneshwari Dave
December 28, 2016
Jan 2017 Free Calendar Wallpapers - Celebrating folk art of Kenya!
This year I had this great chance of visiting one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to, the Washington D.C.
Apart from tons of History about the country, the American capital boasts of some excellent national museums of Art.
One of them is of course, the very intriguing, National Museum of African Art!
The art particular to any region or country fascinates me a lot. It so effortlessly speaks volumes of the culture and people of that part of the world…
You can actually learn a great deal about the place by simply observing their art, the materials they use and the sources of their inspiration.
Africa is not considered as one of the most developed continents on the planet. Some countries of Africa are just primitive at the best. And so I was most curious and eager to check out the art from this continent still stuck in old age...
All the artifacts there - the ceramics, multimedia art, fabrics and paintings are so strongly connected to earth and nature. Rustic and tribal as I expected, and yet very beautiful with inspiring details at the same time.
If art museums interests you, and you want to see something other than the European Art or the modern art of the west, I would recommend this museum in DC. It’s a must visit place... :)
I saw these adorable African safari animals carved out of stone, imported from Kenya in the gift shop of the museum.
I took an instant liking to them!
Never envisioned the wildlife from Africa in this Avatar!
I just loved the simplicity of the craft.
Very simply put, to me, these handcrafted animal figurines convey the goodness in human hearts, and, happiness! You cannot look at these heartily handcrafted stone animals without a smile! So I decided to cherish this little known folk art of Africa by designing the first calendar of the year with these adorable animal figurines...
You can download these HD wallpaper for free here! Until the end of January 2017! :)
P.S: I made it a point to buy the art for myself too.
Well, this cute fatty Hippo...he works as a paper weight in my work space! :)
Copyright ©2016 Gyaneshwari Dave
December 20, 2016
Free Printable Greeting Cards & Gift Tags! - Year End 2016
Year-end holidays and New Year is a time to wish those special people in our lives.
In this era of Mobile Messenger Apps, Emails and
electronic greeting cards, Written Words have acquired a value and charm like
never before.
Even a simple card with our hand written notes makes our
loved ones feel special and bring to them a unique joy…
However, sometimes you simply don’t have time to go to a shop and buy
the greeting card, or, the shops are closed and there is no time left to wait
till they open…How many times this has happened to you? :)
Well, in that case, a printable card comes handy, and the
sweetest thing is, you can use them as many times as you wish!
As a Holiday gift for the subscribers of Lensdepictions, I designed this simple and cute printable greeting cards series, called -
"Gift A Feeling Flower!"
Each of the five cards series has this Big and Bright Sunny flower with a different expression and matching gift tag to use with your gift boxes!
You Can Pick Cards For:
You Can Pick Cards For:
1. Choose Joy!
2.Thank
You!
3. I Am Sorry!
4. Hearty Congrats!
&
5. With Love!
Here is my design at sketch stage:
Simply Download the PDFs for high quality prints...Then Print, Cut and Show your love for your loved ones!
I intentionally kept the colors refreshingly subtle, and the background white, so that you can print them at home with ease!
My tip would be to use thick A4/Letter size paper for the happiest results! :)
Hope you enjoy these cards as much as I have enjoyed designing them.
Wish You Very Happy Holidays from Lensdepictions!
FOR PERSONAL
USE ONLY!
Commercial
redistribution of these cards and/or the artwork on them, in any manner is not permitted
and would be a violation of Copyrights.
Illustration/Art
©2016 Gyaneshwari Dave
All Rights
Reserved
November 30, 2016
The Reindeer Wallpaper For December 2016!
Since it was the month of
December that I was designing the wallpapers for, I wanted something happy,
cheery and really light hearted.
So I thought of a cute Reindeer, Santa Claus's Reindeer, passing by the screen as the December snow falls on its path!
Here is my Reindeer while it was still in the making… :)
Click on the image below to
download the Full resolution wallpapers, they will remain on the Fresh Freebies page of my website till the end of Dec 2016. Then after, you can always find them
here, & here.
And if you really liked the Reindeer a lot, here is a cute hand drawn style seamless vector pattern I made with the same! Click on the image to get the vector...
P.S: Meanwhile, today I just
stumbled upon this very amusing (but absolutely true) news about Domino’s Pizza
training Reindeer for Pizza Delivery in extreme cold weather in Japan! :P
All Images & Artwork ©
2016 Gyaneshwari Dave
November 28, 2016
Free HD Mobile Wallpapers From Lensdepictions!
Looking at the popularity of Lensdepictions Calendar wallpapers and receiving some suggestions to offer Lensdepictions’ Exclusive Mobile wallpapers, I am really happy and excited to announce and present to you the free collection today on Cyber Monday!
You can access the collection here.
Even better, like the page, and get the wallpapers posted to you regularly!
Access the Free HD Mobile Wallpapers from Lendepictions Android App too!
Enjoy! :)
November 23, 2016
Amrita Sen Agenda Book - A Review
With the year nearing the end, it’s time to go shopping for some office stationery.
A planner/agenda book always tops my list and excites me greatly…
This time around, I chose one from the collection of Amrita Sen, an artist par excellence. The agenda book has captured my imagination ever since.
As per my taste, I prefer soft color palette,
subtle, pastel tones, and lightly done prints for my stationery, home décor
fabrics, and everything else that I am supposed to lay my eyes on, on a daily
basis.
And so, while shopping for the agenda book at
Barnes & Noble, when I saw the cover of this agenda book for the first
time, I found the cover print rather uninteresting, so, I quickly shifted my
attention to the other planners lying on the shelf there…
…neverthless, an Indian name urged me to go
back to it and look inside, at least once.
Well, when I opened it, my mind was blown.
It was not just the efficient layout of
monthly grids and weekly planner pages with perfect space for scheduling
projects and works (in just the way I wanted), but also, there was this
tremendous aesthetic appeal!
As I quickly shuffled through the pages, I
was stunned and at the same time extremely surprised at the instant liking I
took to the crowded prints and almost loud bursts of several colors at a time,
page by page…!
I started using the agenda since early
November this year.
But, every morning as I go back to my desk
and take this beautiful planner in my hands, I ask one question to myself:
Exactly what is that one precise reason I have fallen in love with it so much…
I wanted the answer.
I know, there are lessons to be learnt in
that.
The artwork used throughout the book, is simply brilliant and effervescent.
Even it is oh so crowded and yet, much
surprisingly, it doesn’t look overly done!
Despite of being so vivacious it doesn’t
scream for attention. It merely invites.
This delicate balance, is amazing!
It manages to instill life in your heart
every time you give it a look, but without cluttering the mind!
With so much to take in visually,
theoretically, it should clutter the mind…but, it doesn’t.
It is on the verge of being “in your face”
and still has a definite sense of dignified mystery!
The intricate motifs, patterns and design
elements!
It brings the book several notches higher in
terms of artistic sophistication.
No wonder, God lives in details!
Then there is this beautiful feel of
feminism. Be it the elegant illustrations of women, some beautiful and
romantic, poetic lines (those words have a clear sense of yearning and yet a
sense of completeness that only a woman can hold) at the beginning of every
month, or the enthralling use of colors and designs making every single page
come to life.
This much richness and depth, I believe, can
only be held by a woman, and these many vibrant layers of life, so inspired,
can only come from a very passionate place, can only be created by a woman.
In her words, and in her art, I sensed a Sufi
kind of love, the kind Radha had for Krishna. And I guess that is what puts her
work class apart.
Another thing is that, the mood throughout
the book, is so uniquely Indian, even antique, and yet it has a global,
contemporary appeal.
Well, after pondering over all of this, I
would describe my latest work purchase like this:
Thorough. Romantic. Exotic. Passionate.
Invigorating.
And for the whole year, as I write in it,
this beauty is going to whisper to my heart a little art lesson or two, every
single day.
As per the answer to my question…Well, I
don’t want it any time soon…I don’t want the whispers to stop! :)
Thanks Amrita Sen. Kudos!
Photography & Article ©2016 Gyaneshwari
Dave
November 10, 2016
Fall Inspired So Much...!
Yes, that’s me! :)
This year, fall was like never before for me…
A weekend trip to the gorgeous mountains of North Carolina
really taught me what it means to have hundreds of different hues of warm
colors on the palette…Well, the almighty have them…!
And he surely knows…how to show
it off, in style!
As I was capturing some
stunning autumn landscapes of the mountains, it inspired me to write a new
poem, which I titled...
Apart from photography and writing, the third area of my
creativity got heavily inspired too…
Yes, probably you guessed it right! :)
The showers of the free falling leaves and subtle sounds
generated by them inspired me to design some seamless surface pattern vectors
as well …
Above is my
initial sketch work and here is the seamless pattern tile…
“Music of
Fall!”
I
was pretty happy with my design, and so I HAD to make two more flavors of the same
pattern!
"Music of Fall – The winter forest!”
&
“Music of Fall – The green forest!”
Click on the images to see the
tiles arranged as patterns…
You can buy the vector files right there, from Lensdepictions Seamless Patterns Collection...absolutely scalable and perfect for surface printing needs on
paper and fabric!
Poem & Vector Art Copyright ©2016 Gyaneshwari Dave
All Rights Reserved
(Poem Cannot be used without prior written consent)
November 6, 2016
Seamless Surface Patterns With Bunnies!
When you are fortunate
enough to be living at a place where woods are pretty much inter-mingled with residential
neighborhoods, you keep getting the sightings of cute things in nature.
In my case, rabbits, deer,
pine cones, autumn berries and mushrooms are some of those charming things. :)
Few days back, such a chance
sighting of rabbits inspired me to create this seamless surface pattern with
rabbits in woods.
To
me, designing repeat/seamless patterns is like creating puzzle pieces in my
mind (when thinking about the design elements of the pattern) and then playing with the
very same (while arranging them in the tile)!
The
challenge of achieving the rhythm in laying out that perfectly seamless pattern
in the end is a joy comparable to meditation.. :)
And
the experience of creating this set of patterns was no different either…
After
sketching out four different rabbits with different poses and some simple
forest trees, I created the woodland inspired patterns: One on white - simple and
uncrowded, and the other with sky blue background and bigger size elements...
And
then after, using the same set of rabbits, I designed this fun, whimsical sort
of pattern with blue rabbits and blue carrots! This is how a single tile looks...
This is how it looks as a repeated pattern...
Here is the gift-wrap made out of one of the patterns... :)
Photographs
& Vector Art © 2016 Gyaneshwari Dave
All
Rights Reserved
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