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About Me

CreativeLab — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:46:14 CDT

I am a home maker and a part-time painter. Art is my passion and I had been enjoying drawing and painting from a very young age. I love nature and flowers. I enjoy painting flowers and nature but they are not my only interests. Paper crafts, Photo editing are also my favorite tasks.

My works are simple and they make me relax and feel happy. I hope they can do the same for you. Visit my work and enjoy. As a happy Artist, I work with all my heart. I enjoy the artistic nature around me wherever I go and end up painting them. To me art is about painting the things we have enjoyed in our life. I have always found it difficult to find out the kind of art that suits me the best. Then lately I realised Nature's Still Life and Abstract describes my art style.

You can find out more about what I do by browsing the gallery sections available under each category of the website. You can see examples of my current work by going to the "Recent Works Album" section in this website.

Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to visit my website. If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me at creativelab@artlover.com . I would love to hear from you.

- Lavanya Subramonian

Origami Tutorial

CreativeLab — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:49:48 CST

Online Origami crafts video tutorial

Please add your comments at the end of this page,

so that I know how many of you are really benefited out of this tutorial.

Welcome To Creative Lab

CreativeLab — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:46:04 CST

QUICK LINKS:

Origami Video Tutorial

Paper folding crafts video tutorial

Paper Filigree/ Quilling

Creative Products

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Then please send an email to the administrator of this site. Once your work has been approved, it will be posted.

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Paper folding tutorial

CreativeLab — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:37:37 CST

Online paper folding crafts tutorial

Online paper folding crafts tutorial

Please add your comments at the end of this page,

so that I know how many of you are really benefited out of this tutorial

Paper Folding / Origami

CreativeLab — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:39:10 CST

Origami is an art of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms.The word "Origami" consists of oru (to fold) and kami (paper.) Therefore Origami means paper folding. .

Origami is a creative craft with certain rules of construction. Its just uses paper, and the rest is your imagination! Most origami uses a single sheet of uncut square paper.

Below are the samples of my works...

3 Roses	Decoration 1	Decoration 2
Lotus	Star	Multicolored box
Butterfly	Tulips and chair	Living Room

Origami Box

CreativeLab — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:11:41 CST

For folding a box of size 3 inch x 3 inch x

Make diagonal folds and book folds

Fold the corners of the square towards the center and make precise creases.

Fold the sides of the new small sqaure towards the center; make a crease and unfold. Repeat the same for other three sides.

Now open the last two folds, unfold any two corners diagonally and fold diagonal crease that bisects the small square created by previous folds. Unfold the two opposite sides which you just folded.

Now you will have 2 opposites side walls of the box, refold remaining two sides of square along crease so they stand upright and form two walls of box. Fold up third side, tucking diagonal corner folds inward against it; wrap third side over folds; lay in place. Repeat for fourth side. This step is complicated ...watch video for a clear view.

Measurements:

For the box bottom cut 7.1 inch square

For the lid cut 5.7 inch square and while folding the side walls of the lid fold 0.6 inches only.

Digital Art

CreativeLab — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:57:03 CST

FLOWER POT

MOUNTAINS

ICE CUBE

Recent Works Album

CreativeLab — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:04:07 CST

Click here to see my Paintings

Click here to see my digital art

Click here to see my paper foldings

Hibiscus

CreativeLab — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:55:43 CDT

"Hibiscus" - 9 x 12 inches - Acrylic on Paper

To purchase this one-of-a-kind original painting contact me.

Painting

CreativeLab — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:53:51 CDT

Painting is one of the three "romantic" arts, along with Poetry and Music for its symbolic, highly intellectual purpose.

Painting in an artistic sense means combining colors to a surface such as paper, canvas, wood, glass using different styles to bring in some meaning. Different types of paint are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspended or embedded in.

Examples include: Oil, Acrylic, Pastels, Watercolor, Glass paint, wax (crayons), Ink

Below are my paintings.....

Ganesha	Peacock	Hibiscus	Apple Notebook
Taj Mahal	Table for Two	Lotus Still Life	Butterfly
Flower Power	Bald Eagle

Quotes

Lavanyarl — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:11:20 CST

Below are few quotes i enjoy reading them....

ART:

"Art influences everything." - Ginia A. Davis

"Art comes from the heart. The biggest part of heART is ART." - Gary Walters

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." - Leonardo da Vinci

PASSION:

"The creation of art is the passion. The completion of art only ignites another creation." - Jeffrey
Breslow

"To create without passion is to create nothing at all." - Bruce W. Sykes

CREATIVITY:

"All who are creative, in whatever way, are doing something very important to the well being of the
world." - Sandra Chantry

"To be truly creative, you have to work beyond what you know. Pushing the envelope is what being an artist is all about." - John Ferrie

PAINTING:

"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish." - Balthus

"Paint like nobody is watching and paint like you don't need any money." - John Ferrie

"There are six essentials in painting: The first is spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the
fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink." - Ching Hao

PHOTOGRAPHY:

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs." - Ansel Adams

"A photo must make the viewer feel all the senses with one." - Todd Plough

MUSIC:

"Music is the shorthand of emotion." - Leo Tolstoy

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language." - Herbie Hancock

Glossary

Lavanyarl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:20:30 CST

A-C

Term	Definition
Acrylic	A synthetic resin widely used as a latex to produce paints with good color and color retention. Acrylic latex paints may be thinned and cleaned up with water.
Card Stock	A thick, sturdy paper that is available in a variety of weights; commonly used in scrapbooking and paper crafts.

D-G

Term

Definition

H-L

Term	Definition
Kirigami	The art of paper-cutting, where shapes are produced by cutting a pre-folded sheet of paper
Laminate	A thin, transparent plastic coating applied to paper, cardstock, or other material to provide a protective covering and give it a glossy finish.

M-Q

Term	Definition
Modular Origami	Where many sheets of paper are folded into (often) identical units or modules These are then slotted together to form larger geometric designs.
Origami	Origami is the art of paper folding. It was first developed by the Chinese, but was later adopted by the Japanese. Origami usually involves folding a single piece of paper without cutting or sticking or decorating them to form any meaningful object.
Oil Paint	Oil-based paint that contains oil as the basic vehicle ingredient. Oil paint can be designed for interior or exterior use. It must be thinned and cleaned up with solvent. Pure oil-based paints have largely been replaced by alkyd paints
Paint	A pigmented liquid that dries to form an opaque, solid film and provide decoration and protection.
Quilling or Paper Filigree	The art of rolling, scrolling, fringing, and shaping narrow strips of paper using a tool such as a needle, toothpick or stylus to form small coiled shapes, and then arranging and gluing those shapes to paper making new designs.

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Term	Definition

Paper Filigree / Quilling

CreativeLab — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:29:16 CST

Creative Products

CreativeLab — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:05:10 CST

Hello Everybody,
Below is the list of products designed by me and available for purchase at http://www.zazzle.com/creativelab*. Even if you are not interested in buying them, i would like to know what would you rate them....................................... So please click on the rate it button and drop in your votes.

Thanks

Watercolors

CreativeLab — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:05:39 CST

Sweet little blue birds

Yellow Rose

Sweet home

Spring Flowers

Photography

CreativeLab — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:09:56 CST

Visit the Birds of the Bay at http://birdsofthebay.com/

Pittsburgh Downtown

Links: To learn more about Photography click below

Recent Paintings

CreativeLab — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:51:29 CST

Apple Notebook	Lord Ganesha Abstract	Hibiscus One Stroke
Taj Mahal	Lotus	Table for two
Peacock	Bald Eagle	I Love 2 FLY

Recent Paper Foldings

CreativeLab — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:51:04 CST

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Chat with me

CreativeLab — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:28:02 CST

Hello Friends, now you can chat with me when I am online.

What is special this Month?

CreativeLab — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:43:35 CST

NEW YEAR 2008

JANUARY: PONGAL FESTIVAL

Pongal is a four-days-long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India.

Pongal, one of the most important popular Hindu festivals of the year. This four-day festival of thanksgiving to nature takes its name from the Tamil word meaning "to boil" and is held in the month of Thai (January-February) during the season when rice and other cereals, sugar-cane, and turmeric (an essential ingredient in Tamil cooking) are harvested.