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15 January, 2014

CD Topics 10th-14th Jan in a story format!


Happy Pongal!

I had been to Chennai to attend the Mylapore Festival along with Nirupam Konwar. Will post the pending topics later in the day today!

798_ Shankranti/Pongal

Today's topic is Shankranti/Pongal.

Happy Shankranti/Pongal to all Cders.

More about shankranti here
More about pongal here

14 January, 2014

Happy Makar Sankranti to all


797_ Kite

Today's topic is kite.

It is the kite flying season. So let us draw kites.

Here is a story by Story by BK Surat Singh Ayer

In the kite flying season of the year, there was a kite that flew very very high, all the way to the end of its thread. The kite noticed that an eagle was flying even higher, and more freely without the thread tying it down. This gave the kite the idea that if he were free from the thread, then he too could go beyond the height of the sky... that he could even go higher than the eagle. The kite believed that if he could do this then he would be truly and deeply happy. He wanted more than anything to be free from his thread.

As it turns out, coincidentally another kite ran into him and cut his thread. Immediately, he was overcome with joy at his newfound freedom. "Oh," he thought, "now it is my luck to fly up even higher than the eagle!"
With great enthusiasm, he tried to fly up. However, instead of going upwards, the kite gradually flew lower and lower. No matter how hard he tried, the kite continued to stumble downwards until it not only fell to the earth, it also became trapped in a thick bush. To make matters worse, a bunch of kids came and severely damaged the bush and kite. The kite was nearly destroyed as a result of not having any support from his tying thread... his true nature was forever lost as a result of his overly ambitious thoughts.

13 January, 2014

Sunset from the bench

Camel artists' water colour cakes on Auroville sketchbook approx 8"X5.5"

796_Park bench

Today's topic is Park bench.

Anything can happen on a park bench. After reading this story, we can draw from imagination or from real life experience.

A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.

After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come. The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000. It was signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized.

But instead, the executive decided to put the un-cashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought. With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the un-cashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller." then she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he ever imagined. - See more at: http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/spiritual-short-story-944-Cashing+In+Your+$500,000+Check.html#sthash.timuNsHj.dpuf

12 January, 2014


795_ Building

Today's topic is Building.

We are grateful for a roof over our head. Let us draw a building [The completed structure is called a building?! English is puzzling :) ]

Here is a story:

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurely life with his wife and enjoy his extended family. He would miss the paycheck each week, but he wanted to retire. They could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but over time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.

When the carpenter finished his work, his employer came to inspect the house. Then he handed the front-door key to the carpenter and said, "This is your house ... my gift to you." The carpenter was shocked!
What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. 

11 January, 2014

Sorry for not posting regularly


794_coffee mug/tea cup

Today's topic is coffee mug/tea cup.
The morning cuppa is so important to kick start our day. Lets draw the cup we drink our brew from.

Here is a interesting story:

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

10 January, 2014

in my kitchen


793_Kitchen

Today's topic is kitchen.

Food for thought! So let us draw the place where food is prepared. Let us draw our kitchen!

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
Julia Roberts 


A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.
Masaharu Morimoto 

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.
Kyle Chandler 

09 January, 2014

792_A cqool cawrtoony caawr ^_^


The Colour"full" CAR!


The Window that was an embarrassment!


792_Car

Today's topic is car.

A car is a mode of transport that helps you go from one place to another. So let us draw the car we own, travel in or our dream car; the one we would love to own or maybe just build our own imaginative car!

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams 

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Dale Earnhardt 


Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
Erma Bombeck 

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
Mario Lopez 

08 January, 2014

791_Kitty View


791_looking out of the window

Today's topic is draw yourself looking out of the window.

Yesterday we drew the view from our favourite window. Today let us draw ourselves looking out of the window.

07 January, 2014

790_The joy of digital life



Please see my other posts of 2014 here:
Fly High
Walk on
Mmmph
Fruity
Post!
Childhood joy


Morning music from my kitchen window!

what u see out of ur window.... Opposite my kitchen window where I watch n hear the birds chirp, children running to get their school bus, maids walking in, friends chat for a while.... as I watch them all sipping my hot coffee!!!!

790_window

Today's topic is window.
It has nothing to do with Bill gates ;)
Every morning, we wake up & open the window curtains to let the Sunlight in.
Then look out at the view available, some of us are lucky to have our own gardens.
Others have to be happy with the borrowed view i.e the neighbours garden. 
But most of us have to be happy looking at the neighbours house!
Whatever the view, we are grateful for the Sunshine!
Let us draw the view from our favourite window.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman 

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Tom Lehrer 


My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
Queen Latifah 


I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Grandma Moses 

06 January, 2014

789_Childhood joy


Word Play: Boat


Bowl"ed" over?


The Village Post Office


789_Boat

Today's topic is boat.

Every time we visit a lake, river or the sea, we are tempted to take a boat ride! What is it that makes us want to do this? Let us explore & find out why we love boat rides.

This rhyme is so profound!
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.


05 January, 2014

788_Post!


788_Post office

Today's topic is Post office.

It's new year, how many cards did you send to wish your near & dear ones & how many did you receive? How many letters did you write in 2013? How many times did you visit the post office? I know, technology has brought the World closer, now you don't have to wait for a week to get a reply from another continent, it is instant! But the fun of writing on onion paper, putting it in an envelope, having it weighed, buying a stamp, sticking it & posting it! What fun! So let us get all nostalgic & share our post office experience here!

Did you know that India has the most number of post offices than any other country! (over 1,20,000 post offices).

04 January, 2014

787_Fruity


787_fruit bowl

Today's topic is Fruit bowl.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle 

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov 

03 January, 2014

786_Mmmph.


The Welcome Arch at Karur, my native!


786_Arches

Today's topic is Arches.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams 

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
Billy Connolly 

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
Kublai Khan 

Without stones there is no arch.
Marco Polo 

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller 

02 January, 2014

Steps

From here to eternity!

785_Walk on.



Life Steps


785_Steps

Today's topic is steps.

2014 is already a day old. Let us take positive steps into this new year!

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius 

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward 

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus 

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Lord Byron 


Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand 

31 December, 2013

An imaginary scene!


Shadow play?


783_ Reflection

Today's topic is Reflection

As the year 2013 ends, its time to reflect upon the events in this year.
The lessons learnt, memories made & happy times!

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

30 December, 2013

Shadows

Shadows have always fascinated me. Here is a sketch I did some months ago.


782_ Shadow

Today's topic is Shadow.

Never fear a shadow, it only means there is light nearby!

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller 

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare 

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo


A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
Abdul Kalam 

29 December, 2013

Happy New Year!


Sting like a scorpio?


781_Flowers

Today's topic is Flowers.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
William Wordsworth

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

28 December, 2013

I m Cancer wht bout u?


780_Zodiac signs

Today's topic is Zodiac signs

more here.

“The zodiac's twelve signs are said to represent powerful archetypes that are universal in theme.”
Bil Tierney, All Around the Zodiac: Exploring Astrology's Twelve Signs

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE

27 December, 2013

Holiday..but mood spoiled?


779_Holiday

Today's topic is Holiday.

As our toonking is on a holiday. Rajni saar has asked me to post topics.
So today, lets us go on a holiday.
The advantage of being an artiste is we can go anywhere without actually leaving our house.
Draw your favourite holiday spot or imaginative Utopian holiday!

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
Douglas Coupland

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.
Kylie Minogue

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
Penelope Cruz 

26 December, 2013

Gift




Gift from Santa


Useful Gifts I recd!


Merry Xmas!


778_Gift

As the year is ending, it is time to contemplate about what we gave & received.

Today's topic is Gift.

The gifts you are carrying in your life are for others.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire 

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha 

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein 

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson 

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul II 

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn 

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia 

25 December, 2013

Merry Christmas!

My dad bought a set of 50 sketch pens. Could not resist using them!




Merry X'mas


777_Christmas

Merry Christmas Chumma Drawers!

Today's topic is Christmas.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin 

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens 

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Dr. Seuss 


“God bless us, every one!” 
Charles DickensA Christmas Carol


Christmas! '" The Joy of the Lord is our strength.

Mother Teresa



24 December, 2013

Santa




Merry X'mas


Santa

Hey folks...
D Santa dat I drew is a lil thin... :P :D
Merry Xmas....
Rajani O.V.

Merry X'mas!


776_Santa claus

Today's topic is Santa claus.

Tonight is when Santa brings us gifts! Hope you have all been good this year.
Hang up the stockings & don't forget to leave cookies for Santa!

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge 


A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover 

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Patti Smith 

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory 

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
Rickie Lee Jones 

23 December, 2013

Landed in a soup kya?


Let's party guys


775_Party


Today's topic is Party.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
~ Ann Landers

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
~ Jennifer Aniston

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.
~ Sandra Bullock

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
~ Jean Paul

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
~ Natalie Portman

Happy Drawing! :)