I am Ganesh 13 years old self-taught artist. I started out when I was 6 years old in grade one inspired by the animated movies that I got to watch. Inspired by those movies, I drew.
My father encouraged me to make more art. He is an artist, and I got inspired watching him draw. I followed my dad’s footstep and started sketching animated characters. That was the start of my artistic journey.
I still had a long road ahead. I live in Bangalore (south India). I am studying in 8th grade now and I try to cope up with studies and painting. My parents support me a lot in all my interests. My father has always been my inspiration.
He is the one who led me into creative endeavour. Painting lightens my mood. Whenever I sit near the easel, it automatically drags me to paint something on the canvas.
I love wildlife and nature and my interest has always been the animals. And, I wake up every morning excited that there is something else in nature that I want to depict in my art. And I never allow myself to be put in a box, I paint birds one day and the next day I am painting lions.
I just keep
changing different habitat and animals. The purpose of my work or the goal that
I am trying to achieve is to give people an accurate view into nature through
my art. And my other interests include photography, creating short animated
films.
When I first started out, I used to draw using a
normal HB pencil and later progressed to pen and charcoal pencils.
Then I decided to work in colour and
started using watercolour. I worked using the medium for 3 years and later
decided to change so I started using acrylic paint. And I loved it!
Acrylics are flexible and last longer. So, I prefer to stay in that zone now and all my works are done using acrylics.
It is important for me to do art that I feel proud of, and I want my work to have some importance so that hopefully people appreciate it. I shall complete my education, and I dream to be a successful, well known artist.
