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I am Runjhun Jain's biggest fan. And I will refuse to relinquish that position despite the numerous and humongous fan clubs that might be formed in her favour in the future. I have said it here on record. Hear. Runjhun has to be the most creative person I've had the privilege of knowing and loving. And I'm glad she is finally doing the kind of work that I always say only she can do. Runjhun draws like most of us make conversation- without thinking too much about it, simply, effortlessly and in her own inimitable style. While the rest of us effort and try to do cool work, Runjhun's work simply IS.

Village
Love makes you blind

Do click on the image to see it in all its glory. I *LOVE* the 'Alien doing Yoga'.

Just look at her little potted plants, one of her guys in air, the books, pebbles and the omlette fry

Love: Endless chitter chatter, its in the air

I just *heart* her beautiful typo

Sometimes dreams become balloons, the important thing is to hold onto them

Nature doodlesNature doodles

Nature doodle

Winter. Attack of the turnips.

Lost in translation: her mad characters with an Indian twist.

'Whatever' :)

Her people sketches are what I love the best though

These are sketches of friends

Pals

and loved ones.

I love her sense of colour. Sigh...
You can see more of her work on her visual journal 'whypillow'

My house has looked like a godown for the better part of last month. The sight of many plywood boxes was a nightmare and a joy. It meant many empty canvasses but TONS of work. I am just slowly recovering from all that frenetic activity. Running to office each morning and coming home at night to my 2nd shift. I waited for my weekends like my life depended on it, because it really did. But man, did I have fun! :) Here's a look at some of the boxes and trays I designed/decoupaged.

Stage1: plywood boxes, trays and coasters

Stage 2: Painted trays are now ready to be worked on.

Painting the handles and sides 1st.

They are now decoupaged and ready!!

This is one of my favourites- The 'cuttlefish' tray

This was another popular design.

One of my friends told me to use this 'Indiaaah series' design here.

This was a ceiling I photographed at the Junagad fort, with the Sun God right in the middle.

The blue trays: The one on the left is an antique tile I photographed in Rajasthan.

And here are my decoupaged boxes. I had SO MUCH fun doing them! :)

Pink circular design box.

This one is my personal fav. The 'Hair Stories' box. My mom and me sang this limerick a lot in my childhood :) "Once when we were sitting, around the family group, My fathers awful whiskers, got tangled in the soup" So when I was designing this box, putting this verse in made it so much more fun for me :)

Pink ornamental design box.
Each side has a different ornament on it.

The Black Misfits Box.

And here is a very Rajasthani Box, designed by putting together a lot of my Jaipur City Palace pictures. I knew it will look beautiful. And it did.

I had fun painting on the details with gold paint.
In case you want to place an order on any of these do write to me at vineetanair2222@gmail.com

Love.

I got the alphabets cut out of metal

It just looks so much better when you see it up close

and personal :)

These pieces were the surprise on the spot decision. This is the Jaipur City palace inspired wall art Series.

You can see the gold paint at an angle.

I made a series of 4 designs

Another close up

And here the piece I like best. Clarity.

This post brings NEWS! These past 3 weeks have seen me busy busy busy, working round the clock. This last Sunday, June 7th I had my 1st ever exhibition cum sale. It was small but it meant a LOT of work in a very very short time. When my good friend Pakhi Mohnani mentioned this exhibition she was organising, Riddhi and me were like- "lets do it!" I was determined that I put in my best and this meant sleeping on an average of about 3 hours per night for 3 weeks, lots of planning and lots of work. I put up some of my black and white pictures and my designs which I featured here on this blog, but what I was really excited about were my decoupaged boxes and trays and some new wall art I've been wanting to do for the longest time. But for me things only get done with a deadline in sight and this exhibition was exactly that. I wanted to post but between work in office and work at home, I'm afraid I just didn't manage to do it. I knew so many of you might have been interested in this news and might have even wanted to come, but I just so didn't get time to upload anything. When everything got over on the morning of the exhibition my one BIG regret was that none of you knew anything of it, because I hadn't told you. I also didn't invite too many people, just some close friends. The organizers did the rest. Part of me still can't get over the fact that I had an exhibition, part of me is still diffident and a little reticent about the whole thing. But I have taken pictures through the process and just yesterday I downloaded all of them. So in the following posts I will share with you various stages of the preparation and creation of all that got put up. But 1st things 1st, here are some pictures of the stall.

I shared the stall with Riddhi. So these are my trays and her books.
My decoupaged boxes. This pic doesn't do the boxes any justice. Close ups are coming up in the next post.
Some of my wall art. Close ups coming up :)

Some of mine and Riddhi's photographs

Riddhi's books.

Riddhi's prettiest, cutest little books

Some of my smaller frames all stacked.
Close ups of some of the work coming up next.