The voice within

  The ingredients to make a good painting: Composition Colors Focal Point Subject Matter Techniques using tools Blending colors Lighting and direction Shadows Brush stroke Patterns Last but not the least, Novelty! <3 Jahnavi

  What makes your house, your Home? The emotional connotation here emphasizes your mentality.  The blueprint and then the construction resulting in a habitation is " The House" everybody wishes for in life. "Shelter" is one of the basic necessities of life for a human being...whereas, a home is where you create an emotional and personal memoir with the person or pet you live with. These extraordinary moments created in the place you live makes it your home.  If arranging new furniture, kitchen items etc is said to make a "Home"...you'll never stop feeling that anything is enough, as you tend to keep getting new products and items often with the changing trends which will cause mental fatigue while you try to find a "home"(emotional and personal memoirs) in those expenditures.  Forcing someone to get what you want will never give happiness or that homeliness. It just makes you feel cold and lonely. What makes your house your home? <3 Jah

  I took a plunge and did a 5 foot * 3 foot oil painting on stretched canvas of Lord Ganesha in 2023 June. I did underpainting with earthy tones. The tonality brought the colors to life. Natya Ganesha was a project for my cousin. It made me grow more confident as one of the art professor at a renowned art college appreciated my work and quoted a price for it! However, I think it was Ganesha who wanted to be created on that canvas from my hands and talent. <3 Jahnavi

     Flourish - Adding a touch of flourish to my artworks made me feel a little accomplished. Usage of brighter colors, giving a texture on the canvas in Gesso, Palette knife techniques and a bit of tonality and improvement in brush strokes.  

   One of the trending topics since almost two years is about ChatGPT (a natural processing chatbot), an Artificial Intelligence tool that sent shudders for teachers at schools. Although it has brought a lot of change in the society for technological advancements at various levels, does education and AI go hand in hand? Have you heard of intelligent tutoring systems which makes sure there is no human intervention in teaching the student? The machine learning algorithms are in various adaptive learning platforms. It has its advantages as well as disadvantages for the students. My favorite is the duolingo app. AI tools are popularly used in schools globally. It is considered to be a new teaching method. In schools, the generative AI games are used by the teachers in classrooms, which gives automated grading and feedback. However, many schools have restrictions to use the generative AI tools observing the shortcomings such as lesser human interaction, data privacy, plagiarism and so on

  December 2022 was the best time that my Coco and I had. We went shopping, met Santa and ate treats. We went home to just play, play, play with the new dog toys Santa gifted to Coco... We love December and we love Christmas. Don't you? Yours <3 Jahnavi KJ