Big Ambla

After a one year break to be full time mommy to my baby son, I've started painting again. Just finished a large abstract of someone I have known for a long time. My mother. With a twist of course- this is how she looked at my age. I am a huge fan of Modigliani. Hence the slim neck and angular composition. As for the palette, well this painting is for my bedroom which is in a sea blue-green theme.

My daughter, who held the palette for me at times and most happily washed my brushes, was the first one to make note of the fact that the painting was of "Ambla", as she fondly calls my mother. The moment I finished the preliminary coat, she rushed up. The canvas was almost double her size. She said " Mamma! That's Ambla. Big Ambla!". Reminded me of a story I had read about John Lennon. Apparetly his son Julian showed all his nursery work to his dad without fail. One day he came back with a sketch of a little girl with diamond shaped eyes. He told Lennon that it was "Lucy in the sky with Diamonds". The sketch inspired the famous Beatles number of the same name.

I decided to call my canvas Big Ambla after Samarra's name for it.