Artform

Painting of a witch-like woman

Geetha B Art, Artform, Bewitched, Painting, Witch 
Painting of a witch-like woman
9 March 2025
Painting of a witch-like woman


I was doing some menial witchcraft work using the white arts to help a friend and got interrupted a few times by the bell including once by Jehovah’s witnesses who were attempting to convert me or so I thought. I said I was not of Christian faith which is not entirely true, nor is it entirely false. I used to say I believed in humanity before but with the idiotic stance of most these days and the unrelenting quest for more horrors of some, my faith in humanity is dwindling and I struggle to believe. 

I decided to start painting again to ease my mind of more complex matters and halfway through just mixing the paints, I realized that the colours were a bit dark. I carried on, however, before realizing that you should not paint when you are irritated or angry because that gets carried into what you are painting. I thought I should publish it all the same, even though it stood at stark odds with my previous paintings and drawings.

And as always, mixing the visual, sometimes the spoken but always an audio of the moment, I give you a song which seems quite suited to my painting.
Painting of a witch-like woman

We live and die - Morcheeba

Feltpens drawing of a musician

Geetha B Art, Artform, Drawing 
Feltpens drawing of a musician
9 March 2025
Feltpens musician drawing by me


Feltpens drawing of a musician
9 March 2025

I am back to drawing again with feltpen colouring of a musician which I finished yesterday but did not have time to post. I spoilt a bit the nose by leakage of darker colours into the earlier highlights but I still like it. I hope you will enjoy viewing it.

Here is a song which goes with the subject of my drawing.

Sun is shining – Bob Marley


Watercolour painting of an Indian woman

Geetha B Aquarelle, Art, Artform, Painting , , , 
Watercolour painting of an Indian woman
3 March 2025
Aquarelle of an Indian woman by me


After my watercolour of Sunday 23 February, I decided to paint a woman again. I felt like the blending was picking up again and it seemed to be slightly easier than for the elephant. I stayed more or less within the same colour range as for the elephant and just let the brush strokes take over. I hope you like it.

I am leaving you with a beautiful poem by Gerald Griffin for which the song was created using suno.com .
"Nocturne" - Gerald Griffin (song created using suno.com)

Watercolour painting of an elephant

Geetha B Art, Drawing, Painting 
Watercolour painting of an elephant
23 February 2025
Aquarelle painting of an elephant by me

As I said yesterday I would try the watercolours this Sunday, I decided to go ahead and change the subject, choosing an elephant instead of a woman. The sky was overcast so I did not have a problem staying in with my paint. I kept trying to make sense of how the strokes appeared and getting annoyed with the blending as I had clearly lost my knack for it and so abandoned totally the idea of painting alla prima. I chose instead to paint each colour separate from the other with just a few blending strokes here and there. I hope you like it all the same.

I am leaving you with another wonderful song “day after day” by this lovely young lady called Elyanna.
Aquarelle painting of an elephant by me

Elyanna - Youm Wara Youm

Second gel pen portrait of a woman

Geetha B Art, Artform, Drawing, Pen 
Second gel pen portrait of a woman
22 February 2025



I liked the use of the gel pens so I decided to make another portrait and I might do a few more down the road. Here again, it has a very much animated movies feel to it. I hope you like it. I still thought I would try the watercolours this weekend but now this is going to be Sunday and I probably will not publish whatever I will do with them Sunday itself but might decide to publish it on one of the weekdays after that. I am leaving you with another wonderful song from this lovely young lady called Elyanna.

Elyanna - Callin' U (Tamally Maak)

Gel pen portrait of a woman

Geetha B Art, Artform, Drawing, Portrait 
Gel pen portrait of a woman
18 February 2025

After my yesterday’s sketch of a woman’s head, I decided to use the gel pens that arrived today to make a different kind of portrait. I wanted to achieve a stylized look so looked around for some portraits to emulate and it resulted in the below output. It has very much an animated movies feel to it while at the same time taking after some fashion show sketches. I hope you like it. 

I received today the watercolours from Amazon but they came really late so I did not think it would make sense to try them as the place I am staying at lacks good lighting in the dining room where there is a big table with all my material sprawled all over it. I think I will try the watercolours this weekend as I am working tomorrow from the office and it takes me over an hour and a half each way to go to and come back from London.

I hesitated regarding the hair and was not sure I should keep it just coloured at the tip or colour all of it in black leaving the tips in gel pen

Gel pen portrait of a woman
This is not America – David Bowie

Sketch of a woman’s head

Geetha B Art, Artform, Drawing, Pen, Women , , , 
Sketch of a woman’s head
16 February 2025
There is little to do where I live because I do not know my surroundings yet so I have resorted to my old passion of sketching mainly female portraits or nudes. In this instance it is just a pencil sketch of a female head using B, 6B and 8B pencils as well as a white sketching pencil. I have not taken out all the art supplies I bought so this simple sketch is what I can produce over the coming months.

I have been eyeing some watercolour paint and might end up buying some even though I am in a temporary lodging and should not increase too much what I have to move again. It is just that trying watercolours seems so enticing given that it has always been quite challenging for me. Indeed, I tend to want to improve whatever I find challenging and have time and time again chosen to dwell upon something that I did not have a natural knack for and turned things around to become at least proficient in that, be it art, literature or something involving ordinary skills. I hope to be able to produce a nice watercolour once I give into the enticement of buying those watercolours. In the meantime, I hope you like the pencil sketch I am including here.


My pencil sketch
L'opéra imaginaire - Lakmé (Duo des fleurs)

My daughter’s chalk drawings for me

Geetha B Art, Artform, Chalk, Drawing, Flowers, Rose, Sunflower , , , 
Léa's chalk drawings
January 26, 2025

As I proceeded with clearing more items for the move, I decided to post more of the artwork by my daughter, Léa.

She had made them for me when I was unwell and I had put them on the sides of the fridge next to the table so I could see them while I had my meals. Ever since I had them, they have always brought a smile to my lips when looking at them and thinking of the effort my daughter had put into making more than just one for me.


New drawings and paintings

Geetha B Art, Artform, Drawing, Painting 
Additional artwork
January 25, 2025

I am on the verge of leaving my flat in which I have lived for just a bit more than 6 years. While I was packing, I found some artwork that I had not published on this blog before and so I decided to do this now.

The first two items are my daughter's : a pencil drawing of our family with my two boys on the left side and my daughter and myself on the right side and a pastel drawing of two flowers.

The rest are all mine being some quick sketches of semi-clothed models and a couple of oil paintings: a bird, a horse head and two still-life of fruit and vegetables

I tried putting them in gallery mode but my laptop or wordpress was not complying so I just had to insert them as separate images. I hope you like them.
Our family

Lea pastel pink flower

Female model sketch 1

Female model sketch 2

Male model sketch 1

Male model charcoal long sketch

Copy of a Felix Vallotton ink drawing called La Paresse

Sketch of a model head

Oil pastel of a folk woman

Oil painting of a bird

Oil painting of a horse’s head

Oil painting – still life

Oil painting – still life 2

In becoming

Geetha B Art, Artform, Departure, Earth, Heart, Heartpath, Poems, Poesia, Poetry 
In becoming
14 – 15 July 2024
Courtesy freepik.com


There are seasons in my art
of coming changes to impart
soul from the Earth soon to depart
There are movements in my chest’s space

Shadows twirling and unwinding
towards a final test pointing
they describe a last reckoning
Initiation a contest

The white clouds in forming whisper
memories of green, now a blur
opposites within me murmur
on how to attain the balance

I know dainty schemes of stillness
setting my heart to forgiveness
they distill time beyond duress
forgetting past hurt left behind

My inner skies set in light blue
follow my soaring spirit’s hue
bonding with galaxies anew
my mind expands into their light

Peace and happiness face the void
The urge to fight back I avoid
I am of all black thoughts devoid
In becoming I accept all

Reading of the poem:
Aida Nikolaychuk - Lullaby