Light of the Lamp

 Hi friends,                Just as we thought the pandemic is under control in India, it is spiralling upwards and we are watching with helplessness and also hoping that vaccines will start working soonest bringing back the carefree life we had BC or before corona.              Well, the purpose of this topic is not to write about COVID. It is about the bird paintings  I have been into for the past few years. I would have mentioned before that I have ventured into artworks of different kinds after my marriage. I still don't have an answer as to why I did not draw or paint during my school days.  As they say, for everything there is a time. From pottery paintings,  I have done nib paintings,  acrylic paintings,  oil paintings,  pastels, water colour paintings and some mixed media. I love to sketch, draw faces, eyes, though I need to explore in depth in that area. Somewhere,  I started drawing and painting birds from the photos, mostly from Google. Bird-watching and capturing their