I had the great honor to be commissioned for a painting that will grace the temple walls where Swami Lakshmanjoo,…
Destroyer of the wheel of cognition (12 Kalis #8)
Ending the limited I-consciousness. The eighth Kali finally puts an end to the limited I-consciousness (containing 5 organs of knowledge…
Where the energy (of Kali) attracts everything into herself! (12 Kalis #4)
The void stage. This stage of withdrawal happens in the objective cycle after creation (#1 Sṛiṣṭikālī,) maintaining (2 Rakta-kālī,) and…
Gurunatha (Abhinavagupta and the Lineage of Kashmir Shaiva Masters)
I updated the painting of Abhinavagupta by adding a dignifying shawl to his torso instead of him being bare-chested. So…
The masters, in all their glory!
Detail of larger painting of the Kashmir Shaiva masters: Abhinavagupta – Gurunatha In this detail: Swami Ram, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Swami…
Freedom and fear
Here is another painting that intuitively appeared before me, expressing a sense of freedom and fear simultaneously. Und meine Seele…
People and more people
I have never in my life painted so many people. They are not very detailed but still, they have to…
Started on the details of devotees listening to Abhinavagupta in the Painting
Started on the details of devotees listening to Abhinavagupta. I wasn’t sure if women and men should be sitting separately,…
lotus ponds left and right
Here it is with the lotus ponds in place, was easy work to dig them out and plant some……
The Masters in all their glory!
Swami Ram, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Swami Mahatabkak
Voila! new carpets.
Traditionally in Kashmir there is always a rug or a cloth with a traditional pattern for people to sit on.
glueing the pieces together
On the top is the finished transferred carpet in place already, on the bottom the print was just glued down…
inkjet print transfer
CIMG1624 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. inkjet print transfer didn’t quite work
laser print transfer underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
CIMG1634 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. laser printer transfer was better, this one got rubbed too much and the print…
testing 2
CIMG1620 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. After the first mishap with heat transfer I “practiced” a little on the back…
testing 1 underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
CIMG1619 Originally uploaded by claudia dose.
print transfer the underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
Working on the underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting I wanted one of those traditional carpets laid out and couldn’t imagine doing…
Testing, Testing! underground/carpets in Abhinavaguptas painting
CIMG1620 Originally uploaded by claudia dose. After the first mishap with heat transfer I “practiced” a little on the back…
whitewash
What a mess. That didn’t work. Trying to iron down the heat transfer melted parts of the acrylic and stuck…
Carpets
Designing the carpets in the the painting in Photoshop was easy. My idea was to use heat transfer, that way…
their hands…
Some more details in the dutties (female consorts) hands (holding a lemon and a lotus flower). I did a…
musicians
Really got into details now with those. I had taken some photos in Kashmir in the last years of different…
Abhinava and his dutis (spriritual consorts)
Continued on the big Abhinavagupta painting. Here I worked on his hand gesture after I found a picture of Jesus…
taking on a life of its own
It’s going, I am not sure where, and its slow, painfully slow. Abhinavagupta sure doesn’t make it easy on me.…
back at the “big” painting
Gurunatha Originally uploaded by claudia dose. It is scaring me to death to paint Abhinavagupta. What if he doesn’t like…