Bengaluru: Mohammed Usman Ali is currently holding 'Varna Vilas', a three-day exhibition of watercolour landscape paintings in Chitrakala Parishat here. Unlike the usual watercolour landscape paintings in multiple colours, Mohammed Usman Ali attempts to tread an unusual path by concentrating wholly on light and dark pink colours in 36 artworks. Apart from these specialised ones, he has also kept on display 10 more multicoloured watercolour landscape paintings. Classmate motivates him into drawing: For Mohammed Usman Ali, plunging into the art world was just accidental, thanks to Veeresh, one of his classmates. He was inspired by the latter in the way he used to draw lines and drawings, and decided that if at all he needed to do anything, it would be only in drawing. Diploma, Degree and PG: Once his schooling got over, Mohammed Usman Ali resolved to pursue higher education only in the art field. Initially, he completed the five-year Diploma course in drawing. Later, he did the...
Bengaluru: Mohammed Usman Ali, a multi-talented artist hailing from Sindhanur in Raichur district, is holding 'Varna Vilas', a solo show of 36 single-colour watercolour and 10 multicolour landscape paintings at the Chitrakala Parishat here, under the aegis of the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka. Wazeed Sajeed, an internationally renowned artist, inaugurated the exhibition on Monday evening. The show is on until 12th August. A unique blend of watercolour landscape paintings: Wazeed Sajeed, an internationally renowned artist, showered praises over the outcome of the paintings on display in the solo show. All the paintings are the result of a unique blend; all of them are picturesque, attractive and interesting. In terms of size, they may look small, but all of them are captivating, which serves the purpose of creating them. Wonderful works: Kantharaj N., another world-acclaimed landscape artist, and one of the chief guests who graced the occasion, pa...