MY PAINTINGS OF BIRDS - Chirasri Jayaweera Bandara
I am delighted to post a fresh crop of paintings by Chira, who has entertained us with her paintings many times in our blog.
I am sure you will agree that they are vibrant and colourful as befits the wonderful birds they represent.
On this occasion, there is no accompanying text...just enjoy looking at them and if you are curious, all you have to do is google!
Mahendra "Speedy" Gonsalkorale.
Just a reminder that you can click on a picture and you will see a bigger and clearer one. Mini-images of all appear at the bottom of the screen and you can click on any of them for a bigger view, When you finish, just click on the top-right little box with cross and you will revert to the post
Mahendra
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for taking the trouble for publishing my paintings.
I appreciate your enthusiasm in keeping our Blog alive. Well done.
Let me thank Lucky for initiating it. It keeps our batch mates together. Long live our Blog !
Chira
Chira
ReplyDeleteThat is indeed a stunning collection of paintings. So very colourful and so very real. Your expert hands have brought them to life. I like the pair of budgies demonstrating their affection. You have captured their warmth and love perfectly. The attention to detail is simply superb. Thank you
Nihal
DeleteThank you very much for appreciating my paintings. I value your opinion so much as you are a great portrait artist.
As for giving me credit for the way I have painted the pair of budgies I must admit that I just looked at the photo on my laptop and painted.
Chira
Once again Chira you have produced some stunning paintings ,this time colourful birds ,all drawn to scale with such details .Well done .Shanti and I enjoyed looking at them ,especially on the TV screen .Great work
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Puvana
Puvana
DeleteThankyou very much for your comment appreciating my paintings. When looking at them on a large TV screen I wonder whether you noticed my faults in paintings.
Glad to know that Shanti too saw my paintings. I will be publishing more paintings of birds in the near future.
I must admit that I enjoy painting as it is so relaxing and gives me a lot of satisfaction when I see the finished product.
I started cross stitching and painting as I was at a loss when I stopped doing surgery.
Chira
The precision seen when viewed on a big screen is like looking at your corneal graft sutures.The ability is embedded in you and reveals itself in your detailed paintings and cross stitching
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DeleteI can say only thankyou very much.
Chira
Agree with all that these are stunnimg. Just a reminder that you can click on a picture and you will see a biigger and clearer one. Mini-images of all appear at the bottom and you can click on any of them for a bigger view, When you finish, just click on the top right little biox with cross and you will revert to the post.
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ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for your comment.
Thanks for pointing out that we could see a larger image on clicking on the painting.
Chira
Thank you Chira for another feast for our eyes. Your patience and attention to detail are qualities you have obviously perfected during! you long career as an Opthalmic Surgeon. Congratulations
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ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for appreciating my paintings. I value it a great deal. I get a lot of pleasure when others enjoy seeing them. I too enjoy doing them.
I am sure you will be surprised to know that I have done more than 160 paintings and 117 of my paintings have been published in our Blog upto date thanks to Mahendra.
Chira
Hi Chira
ReplyDeleteI just showed your paintings to Mahendra and he wanted me to convey his admiration . His words were " They are absolutely beautiful ! "
Suri
ReplyDeleteOh! Please convey my thanks to Mahendra for his admiration and comment. Please tell him that he will be able to see more paintings of birds in the near future.
Chira
Will do Chira
ReplyDeleteChira. You have done it again . The birds are fabulous From the stuttering rooster to the elegant show off peacock all come alive . You should let the wider public benefit by compiling them into a book . They are such a feast to the eyes. . Thank you Chira for such a gorgeous display. Wishing you the very best in everything. Manil katugampola
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ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for that lovely comment. I value it greatly. I paint looking at photos on the internet. I select photos where the bird or animal is in action so that it looks alive. I am glad they look alive to you giving me happiness that I have achieved my goal.
Chira
Manil
DeleteYou suggested that I compile the paintings in a book. I'd like to mention that I have laminated the paintings and put them in 3 albums. If and when you come to Sri Lanka you could have a look at these albums. I treasure them.
Chira
These are gorgeous and intricate paintings Chirasri- Thank you for sharing. Cheers
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ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for appreciating my paintings and also for your comment. I value your opinion a lot and I love sharing them with others as it gives me pleasure.
Chira
I was wondering whether all good suregeons are also good artists. What do people think?
ReplyDeleteMahen,
DeleteIn response to your question, I know several surgeons who are good artists as well. They paint for their own enjoyment, as Chira is doing here. A plastic surgeon that I worked with in the past did needlepoint in his spare time! I am sure that it kept his fingers nimble and supple! Those who don't do things like that just haven't tried! It is never too late.
Mahen. I think surgery does improve painting. Chira is in exalted company. As Leonardo. Da Vinci knew the importance of knowing the anatomy and as he was not. a doctor and had no access to surgery. , he stole cadaver from graves and did dissections. But then in Naples he did dissections at a medical college. I-don’t know how. So surgeons do make very good painters. Though I don’t personally know any other surgeon who has done fabulous paintings like Chira
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Manil
DeleteThankyou very much for your comment. I appreciate your response.
I suppose Surgery improves painting as doing surgery a person learns to be patient, and helps being precise on making incisions.
I didn't know that Leonardo da Vinci dissected cadavers to know the importance of Anatomy. That's great!
Chira
Chira
ReplyDeleteBeautiful paintings,very real,precise and colourful.The time consuming effort would have given you great satisfaction and joy.This type of activity must be lighting up many parts of the brain and keeping your hands very supple.Well done and keep painting.
Bora
DeleteThankyou very much for appreciating my painting. I love to get responses like this as it is worth the effort taken. It gives me great satisfaction and joy when I see the end result.
Look out for another lot of paintings of birds in the near future.
Chira
Dear Chira,
ReplyDeleteThank you for these exquisitely beautiful paintings. You have exceeded your own high standards.
In our ‘ mahagedera’ in Bellanwila , there was a large back garden where many birds came to roost , partly because of the variety of fruit trees we had. My mother always had a basin of water, for the birds to feed and bathe. There were of course the ever present crows, magpies and at night the bats who loved to feed on sapodillas when in season.
I loved to see any new species which too appeared from time to time. We also had the migratory birds during the northern winters
My first sighting of a peacock with fully fanned feathers was at Yala.
Your painting has captured this patterned plumage beautifully. We were not allowed to have peacock feathers at home , as it was said to bring bad luck !!
As has been suggested, your paintings are worthy of being preserved for posterity in book form. Although publishing in SL in the current crisis state , may be well- nigh impossible, it maybe possible to find an internet publisher.
Regardless, we, the blog faithfuls look forward to more paintings from you.
Kumar
Kumar
ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for appreciating my paintings which I value greatly.
As I mentioned earlier I have laminated my paintings and put them 3 albums.
We have a large balcony with lots of flowering plants and a bird bath and we see a lot of birds coming and bathing. Kondayas, Polkitchas, Demalitchas are some of them.There are some very small birds with curved beaks that come and suckle flowers. From our balcony we see Parrots, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Kohas and even Canary yellow birds.
In the near future you wll see more of my paintings of birds.
Chira
Once more a series of beautiful artwork from you Chira that is a pleasure to view. You have captured not only the colourful plummage but also the majestic looks of each like that of the rooster! This is extraordinary drawing skills. I am proud to know a multi talented person like you ! Please excuse the delay in viewing the blog Chira, the household chores keeps me occupied.
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Manel (Owlie)
ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for taking time to see my paintings, appreciating them and publishing your comment inspite of your busy schedule. I value your comment that you gained pleasure by viewing them. I too get pleasure when others appreciate them.
You are helping to keep our Blog alive by your comment.
Chira
Chira, thank you for sharing your beautiful creations with us. They are fabulous! I was trying to choose my favorite, and I decided on the painting of the soaring eagle. They are majestic birds, a symbol of the United States. At this time of the year those of us living in the northeastern US are treated to the return of birds who have disappeared over the winter. It is fun to discover a robin's nest hidden in a shrub outside a window. I have a couple of bird houses that are presently occupied by wrens, and I think I may see some baby birds in the near future. I also get a great deal of pleasure watching the humming birds at the humming bird feeder. The hover for a few seconds and then they are gone. BTW, hummingbirds are found only in the Western Hemisphere. They migrate between South America, US and Canada. There are none presently in Europe and Asia. People in Sri Lanka often refer to the sunbirds seen around flowers in the suburbs as "hummingbirds."
ReplyDeleteThank you again Chira for sharing your vibrant, colorful paintings of these amazing creatures with us.
Srianee
ReplyDeleteThankyou very much for appreciating my paintings which I value a great deal. I love to share my paintings as I get pleasure on receiving lovely comments. I am sure you will be surprised that I painted the eagle more than one and a half years ago where as all the others were done a few months ago.
I too enjoy seeing different kinds of birds from our balcony. I don't know whether you saw my reply to Kumar's comment above. I forgot to add Mayinah birds too coming to our balcony. The other day I showed 5 parrots in a row on wire from our balcony to my grand daughter.
Chira
Just deleted a host of comments in Arabic from a nuisance caller. May have to increase security measures for posting comments if this continues but I am reluctant to do so as it would make posting comments more messy
ReplyDeleteChira, you are talented artist. No wander you chose Poyhalmology as your speciality, vision for intricate details. Keep painting ,have you thought of portraits or Landscape ?
ReplyDeleteSorry I meant ophthalmology but the computer chose some unheard of speciality. Teach me to read before I press the send button
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ReplyDeleteWho are you? Anyway thankyou very much for appreciating my paintings. I cannot dream of painting portraits. I tried painting landscapes without much success. I have never gone for any classes but I look at photos on my laptop and paint them. I might try painting landscapes again as I have more confidence after painting more than 160 paintings. Nothing like trying. It will be a chalenge for me.
Chira
Mahendra
ReplyDeleteRegarding all good surgeons are also good artists:-
Zita is an Eye surgeon who is a good artist who used to make beautiful greetings cards.
I think surgeons are too busy to paint unless they have started painting before they became surgeons.
Example a surgeon known to me ( my first cousins son in law) Dr. Jayaindra Fernando who started painting when he was a teenager. He is a great surgeon and an accomplished great artist who has held 4 big exhibitions at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery and several other exhibitions. I have been to these exhibitions showing beautiful paintings.
I started painting after retirement. On my own I created a method of performing Freehand Keratoplasty making a template with sterilised paper first and later cloth and also performing Penentrating Keratoplasty (corneal grafting) on Hypopyon ( pus in the anterior chamber) Ulcers.
The above 2 had not been done by Ophthalmologists at that time in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. ( This was published in my Achievements in Ophthalmology on 2. 9. 21 in our Blog. Artists are creative in nature!
My daughter Anjali is awaiting her overseas training in Ophthalmology and will be taking up a post as acting Eye Surgeon in Dickoya.
Anjali is a good artist and Mahendra had published one of her Pencil Drawings in our Blog under Family News on 25.10.21 Several of her Pencil Drawings have been published in the Kasturba Medical College Journal in Manipal, India where she studied Medicine.
Since a surgeon has patience and precise on making incisions and good at suturing wounds, I feel a surgeon will be able to paint as well do Cross stitching if he or she attempts.
Example Dr. Sunil Kulatunge VOG (his wife a Consultant Ophthalmologist, one of my trainees) is an artist doing paintings, cross stitching etc.
Dr. Jayaindra Fernando and Dr. Sunil Kulatunge have both agreed to send their opinion re good surgeon is also good artist.
Chira
Thanks ChiralI look forward to comments from the doctors you mentioned. My question was prompted by thinking about an association of manual dexterity and skill required for a good suregon with the artistic skills possessed by a good artistlst. I just wondered whther surgeons who do highly skilled surgery such as ophthalmic, plastic and neurosurgery would also be good artists But to be a good artists, you need creative skills as well as the ability to visualise. I suppose there are mny doctors (not necessarilly suregons) who never tried to paint or draw as they were too busy pursuing their chosen career. I came across a few historical and more recent doctor-artists. They are, Santiago Ramon y Cajal was an incredibly influential pathologist and artist who did a lot of drawings of nerves. He was also apparently a talented painter in his youth,
ReplyDeleteRoy Calne, notable transplant surgeon from the UK, has exhibited his various media art works
Frank Netter. Surgeon and medical illustrator, published an anatomical atlas 1989, probably one of the most used and beloved in medical schools today.
Adefemi Gbadamosi, also known as Fola David, is a current medical doctor from Nigerai who doubles as a visual artist.When it comes to his art he finds inspiration from the patients he treats especially those with skin conditions.
Andreas Vesalius. 16th century, Anatomist and Physician.wrote and illustrated one of the first true anatomic atlases, with beautiful, classically inspired, prints
Dr Jaya Gupta, Dermatologist and Painter, current Indian doctor
Dr Sharanbir Kaur, Dentist and Illustrator from India again.
I am sure there are many more. Apart from common skills, I perecived the need for a busy doctor to have really relaxing hobby. I hope more readers will come up with more ideas and exampkes
Mahendra, In my view, a skilled surgeon is undoubtedly an artist but not necessarily creative in or passionate of the fine arts. In such fields like architecture this would be an essential skill.
DeleteManel (Owlie)
DeleteI am sure Mahendra will appreciate your response to his query.
I agree with you that a skilled surgeon is undoubtedly an artist. But I know of some surgeons who are creative as well as pasionate of fine arts.
I am thankful to your response.
Chira
Owlie, you are right. But they are so mnay aspect sof Art and it is diffictation.
Deleteult to generalise. If you look at truly original and creative painting, the skills required are different from paintings done for example in Medieval times with fine detail. Both require skills but inmy view, of a different kind. The ability to visualise and copy is dofferent from the ability to "see what is not there to see" and produce a visually powerful represen
Mahendra
ReplyDeleteYour comment was very interesting. Thank you.What caught my attention most was Frank Netter Surgeon who published an anatomical atlas very useful especially to medical students.
Ophthalmic surgeons do very fine surgery using the operating microscope especially for Cataract surgery, Corneal surgery such as grafting, Glaucoma surgery etc. These surgeries are very intricate and precise that if Eye Surgeons attempt painting I think they will succeed.
What I feel is that not only surgeons but also others like you, Neurologists, Radiologists like Nihal are good artists.
Chira