Painting or drawing a mountain scenery is fascinating since it involves creating lot of depths in the painting with strokes and shading to enhance the altitude and the mistyness of the mountains all around. It was always an interesting concept and as a nature lover this was also my second painting of the mountain scenery.

This painting titled as “The Misty Slopes” was a commissioned painting by a friend, who loved visiting the hill town of Valparai in South India often and also posed a great challenge for me as it had layered scenery starting from the clouds, the distant mountains, forests, tea estates, the houses and the road in the foreground and even more challenging was the wet and rainy road. I would also say this was an experiment with various shades of greens which differentiate the depths of the scene. It took me 35 days to complete this canvas and was one of the paintings done during the beginning of the lock down in 2020, being one of the canvases which I worked on every day from beginning to finish.

The painting when completed, surprisingly gave each viewer a different perspective of the hill town resembling parts of other hill towns which reminisced in their memories making it hard to pinpoint a particular location. In my opinion as an artist I would only express my happiness with the darkness which the painting created as it progressed, a typical scene in the misty locations of the range of hills, one of the reason why I titled it as “THE MISTY SLOPES”