Mice!

Elephants here

Mouse

Read the story about Gajamugasuran n Ganeshahttp://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/indian_mythology_stories/ganeshas_%20mouse.htm

The cute nuisance!

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Today's topic is Mouse.

The significance of riding on a mouse is the complete conquest over egoism. The holding of the ankusha represents His rule of the world. It is the emblem of divine Royalty. 
~ Swami Sivananda 

In the Deccan region, Ganesha was pictured with a sheaf of corn and sugarcane, with a mouse as his vehicle. Invoking him made it possible for farmers to eradicate their worst problem, namely rodents, insuring a bountiful harvest. Ganesha is thus the guardian and protector of success, in this case, a good harvest.

 

Happy Drawing! :)

Happy Ganesha!

The saying inspired me to do this :)

Am going to Mysore Dussera!

Drishti Ganesha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha

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Today's topic is Elephant.

More HERE.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
~ Jackie Kennedy

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
~ David Attenborough

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
~ Samuel Richardson

 
Happy Drawing! :)

Ah! to learn

as a student of art, the learning process 

is as fascinating as the artwork itself. 

The sincere student!

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Today's topic is Student.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~ Og Mandino

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
~ Conrad Hall

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
~ Lou Reed

I'm still a novice student.
~ Ang Lee

I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.
~ Andrea Barber

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
~ Elisabeth Rohm

A student of life considers the world a classroom.
~ Harvey Mackay

 
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A dedicated and passionate Teacher-Venkatalakshmi Sridhar

I owe a lot in my life to my wife! She is so passionate about teaching. She started teaching when she was just in her teens...To this day students  who come to her for learning want to stay with her for as long as they can.
I salute her!! May her tribe increase!!

Happy Teachers' Day

GURUR VISHNU,
GURUR DEVO MAHESHWARAH
GURUR SAAKSHAAT PARA-BRAHMA,
TASMAI SHRI GURUVE NAMAH.

Summary of the Mantra

The Guru is Brahma (The God of Creation)
The Guru is Vishnu (The God of Sustenance)
The Guru is Shiva (The God of Annihilation)
My Salutation to such a Guru, who is verily the Supreme God

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Today's topic is Teacher's Day.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
~ C. S. Lewis

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~ Khalil Gibran

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~ John Steinbeck


A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
~ Brad Henry

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
~ Dan Rather

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~ Lily Tomlin

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
~ Elbert Hubbard

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
~ Dr. Seuss

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
~ Andy Rooney

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~ Anatole France

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
~ Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
~ Steve Harvey

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
~ William Hazlitt

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
~ Bryant H. McGill

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~ Stevie Wonder

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
~ William Wordsworth

Experience is the teacher of all things.
~ Julius Caesar

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

I'm glad I was a teacher.
~ John Wooden

 
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Teaching myself

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda 

Please teach me how to scam regularly!

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Today's topic is Teach.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
~ Maya Angelou

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~ Mark Twain

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
~ Galileo Galilei

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~ Ayn Rand

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle

Happy Drawing! :)

Learnt a lot from this Bro!

Yesterday I spent quality time with my Bro learning so many things as he has recently taken VRS as AGM from RBI. His vast experience in RBI coupled with his various postings has made him a great source of knowledge about Banking in general and RBI in particular. Lucky to have such a bro!

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Today's topic is Learn.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
~ C. S. Lewis

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
~ Denis Waitley

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
~ Earl Nightingale

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
~ Benjamin Franklin

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
~ Mark Twain

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
~ Winston Churchill

Failure is success if we learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Happy Drawing! :)

Cow

a study in oil

Studying the Dollar?

Study of flowers n trees

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Today's topic is Study.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
~ Bruce Lee

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
~ Confucius

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
~ John Adams

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
~ Aristotle

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
~ William James

The proper study of mankind is books.
~ Aldous Huxley

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
~ Bodhidharma

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
~ John Ruskin

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
~ Blaise Pascal

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
~ Richard Bach

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright 

Happy Drawing! :)

Relaxing?

Drew this one while I was relaxing after lunch

Talashey Baghichey main fursat bhari chhav rey

Relax under the shadow of this tree n enjoy this song from Barfi..........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3rpXrRLTWU

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Today's topic is Relax.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~ William S. Burroughs

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
~ Sydney J. Harris

To look back is to relax one's vigil.
~ Bette Davis

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
~ Kenny Chesney

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
~ Shaun White

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
~ Charles Barkley

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.
~ Tom Felton

Happy Drawing! :)

Dollar the Dog

Why only Dollar....??

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Today's topic is Dollar.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
~ Andrew Carnegie

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
~ Jimmy Carter

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
~ Joan Crawford

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
~ William Allen White

Happy Drawing! :)

How MM reacts when Rupee falls!

Note that the reaction is no different even when it touches 69!

New Coinage

Congratulations all ChummaDrawers!

This coin was released today with fanfare to mark the 660th CD blogpost.

PS: this coin doesnt affect the nation...not yet :P

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Today's topic is Rupee.

For more, see HERE.
And for even more, follow the daily news :P

Happy Drawing! :)

Apocalypse now

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Attack

I wish instead of lethal weapon n nuclear explosion the scientist invent a bomb which is full of colours n peaceful messages..:) 

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Today's topic is Nuclear Bomb.

Today is International Day against Nuclear Testing. More HERE and HERE.

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
~ James Buchan

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
~ Hayao Miyazaki

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
~ Joschka Fischer

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.
~ Sigmar Gabriel

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
~ John Cheever

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
~ Pierre Schaeffer

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
~ James Buchan

Happy Drawing! :)

Happy Janmashtmi to all

May da Natkhat Nandlal always give you
many reasones 2 be Happy and
u find peace in Krishne consciousness.
Happy Janmashtami......lovely song on Makhan chor v cute animationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS8awGfEqGo

Makkhan Chor

a quick sketch from the Amar Chitra Katha cover

Happy Janmashtami!

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Today's topic is Krishna.

Today is Krishna Janmashtami. More HERE.

He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature...seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.
~ Krishna

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.~ Krishna
 

Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace.~ Krishna
 

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.~ Krishna

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.~ Krishna


 
Happy Drawing! :)

Mother

She lit many lives!

The poorest of the poor

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Today's topic is Mother Teresa.

26th August was the birthday of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.


I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~ Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
~ Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
~ Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~ Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
~ Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
~ Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
~ Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~ Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
~ Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~ Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~ Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
~ Mother Teresa


Happy Drawing! :)

IT'S cOOL

Cool One!

green with Vintage

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Today's topic is Fridge.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
~ Spike Milligan

The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.
~ Martina McBride

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
~ Boris Johnson

half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
Alan Rickman I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
~ Alan Rickman

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
~ Natalia Vodianova
Happy Drawing! :)

My mom is fond of kitchen garden .she has a small lemon tree,huge drumstick tree ,a small grapevine ,papaya tree,mango tree  n small shrubs n flowering herbs.I m also fond of it...but in Bangalore i 've space problem so happy v some small flowering shrubs in my planters :)

bitter banter

Kitchen.....Cabinet??

Fresh Flowers from garden..

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Today's topic is Kitchen Garden.

Today is World Kitchen Garden Day
More HERE and HERE.


No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
~ Thomas Jefferson    

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
~ George Bernard Shaw

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
~ Alice Walker

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
~ Francis Bacon

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
~ Alfred Austin


Happy Drawing! :)

Sweet Dreams

My dream is to touch the stars :) n moon n sleep like dis on Chanda mama :)
n enjoy dis lovely number by Brian Adamshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMMG6ykb_7U

i dream of art stuff

The Dream & the nightmare!

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Today's topic is Dream.

Today is International Day of Dreamers.
More HERE and HERE.



All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~ Colin Powell

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
~ James Dean

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~ Khalil Gibran

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
~ Jesse Owens

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~ Les Brown

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
~ Jack Kerouac

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
~ Joel Osteen

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
~ Robert Kennedy

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~ Harriet Tubman

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~ T. E. Lawrence

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau


Happy Drawing! :)

CD in CD!

Composer

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Today's topic is Claude DeBussy.

A google doodle in his honour HERE.

More info on DeBussy HERE


 I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
~ Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
~ Claude Debussy

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
~ Claude Debussy

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
~ Claude Debussy

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
~ Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes.
~ Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
~ Claude Debussy

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
~ Claude Debussy

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
~ Claude Debussy


Happy Drawing! :)