How to Draw Bullock Cart Step by Step

As I always say, a good painting is an appropriate balance between the darkest value and reflection. There are few other criteria such as composition, the harmony, the color balance and for me there is one thing that is more vital than the rest of the criteria, the story or the message that the painting tries to convey. In my opinion, an artist is a reflection of the society. As an artist my duty is to register everything that happens around me. The same formula applies to a photographer too. We record everything so the forthcoming generations get a chance to presume the culture that I live in. In an India that I live in, bullock cart is common.

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Stories amuse me a lot more than a straightforward practice painting or sketch. This is the story of a farmer and his cows. He is wearing a turban which confirms that he is from Rajasthan and those are his cows. Most of our occupation revolve around cow. Our main occupation is agriculture where we use manly, macho, male, adult cows for ploughing. Also we use the same cows for pulling carts as you can see in the painting. The female cows are there for dairy farms. This way we keep both the genders existing, healthy and alive. Alive by which I mean, we do not let the species extinct. These are few of our ways to preserve our species. You may think that these are too much for the cow to take. But according to our farmers, they feed them, they take care of them and this is something that they extract in reciprocation for the kind of love they give. It is sort of give and take. They do not load the cows with a lot of work as it is assumed that cows are sacred part of our culture. Soon after the Rajasthani man reaches his place, he lets his cows to rest. It is so hot, so they wind up the work early and all the three go to rest.

Coming back to the painting, I love doing outdoor scenes. Any scene with more than one subject captures my eyes. I so love the light that the sun emits. It is highly challenging to capture those rays. The light that the rays create differs according to the time and place. I live in India where we can see extreme hotness. I like to capture the eye-blinding light that the sun creates in afternoons. This is one such attempt. When it comes to light and the effects of it, our old masters have equipped us with the technique scumbling, which gives a very realistic streak, bright-light effect. I try this technique as much as possible and do it without overdoing and spoiling the overall effect of the painting.

When any outdoor scene is taken as subject, we can see different shades and intensities of shadows. How do I capture shadow????? How else, by glazing! Glazing is a technique where diluted oily amounts of different dark shades are applied over and over until we get a good shadow effect.

When it comes to skin of animal or man, I strictly go by alla prima technique. Wet over wet, oil paint is applied over and over and over on the canvas, until the paint is wet. This technique has given me some amazing results for skin.

So that is about the painting. If you like the idea of this painting, if you are impressed with the subject of the painting, the techniques that were used to handle the painting, the overall effect of the painting. Thank you for your time :-)

Good day ahead!

How to Draw Bullock Cart Step by Step

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