.:Kajra Re:.

Completion Date: 09-19-08
Time Taken: 78 hours
Medium(s):
+ 6 3/16" x 10" Illustration board
+ 05 mechanical pencil
+ Pelikan watercolor
+ Lefranc & Bourgeois gouache paints
+ Prismacolor markers
+ Prang colored pencils
+ Prismacolor colored pencils
+ Pentel gel pens (Silver, Gold)
+ Gelly Roll gel pen (White)
+ Zig Millenium pens
+ Adjusted and watermarked in Photoshop CS2
Music:
+ Youm wara youm - Samira Said & Cheb Mami
+ Maar Daala - Kavita Krishnamurthy & K. K.
+ Milan - Karsh Kale
+ Kajra re - Alisha Chinai, Shankar Mahadevan, and Javed Ali

Comment:
This piece has been in the making for a long time. I started it several weeks before moving to the dorms, having to put it aside repeatedly for numerous reasons. It became a vent art, a spiritual piece, and something just for fun. It turned into a lot of things and it shows in all the different elements placed into it. I also chose to name it after a song that had a lot of impact in its making towards the end.

कजरा रे or Kajra re in English means "Kohl-lined Eyes", if you are unfamiliar with Kohl click here: [link]) . I felt both the lyrics and the life of the song were pretty fitting despite a few things, but regardless of that, this turned out better than I'd actually hoped or intended.

Lyrics - [link]
Song - [link]

Now to head to Art History.. u___u

^{Artwork, Saleeda Balakrishna © 2008 P. Lolla (*souls-poison)
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