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Dhairyasheel Dayal

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Nature - Art - Wildlife - Photography - Anthropology - Science - Life
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Chasing The Shadows:

On January 9, 2025, I decided to go to Satara (Maharashtra, India) countryside and do something. What I was about to do was something from what I saw somewhere on social media, and not from my original idea. So, during late afternoon I went to this peaceful place. As birds were chirping, I began to do it practically, what I imagined would be beautiful artworks. So, I began CHASING THE SHADOWS of flora. I took dry parts of plants. I held them or at times just kept them on my drawing book's paper, and began to draw, following the shadows of these floral parts. This was the first time that I did it. I gotta say, from this experience I learnt a few things that I will be bringing into practice from here onwards, and I believe it will make the artworks only better. Few things, such as doing it at morning or afternoon. Because there needs to be good bright sunlight. This bright sunlight allows proper and darker shadows. We can focus the floral parts by adjusting them in our hand, and managing the distance between them and the paper (onto which their shadows fall). This way, by such adjustment, we can manage to get good copies of object with less distortions (shadows). Also, there's no need to pluck green plants or flowers. You can simply stand near plants, adjust your position, and draw shadows. But also, in this manner it is difficult, because the wind constantly makes the flora move, which also constantly changes their shadows. So, it is better to use dry floral parts, which can be held in hand, which won't be much affected by the gusts of wind.

- Dhairyasheel Dayal

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Chasing The Shadows:

On January 9, 2025, I decided to go to Satara (Maharashtra, India) countryside and do something. What I was about to do was something from what I saw somewhere on social media, and not from my original idea. So, during late afternoon I went to this peaceful place. As birds were chirping, I began to do it practically, what I imagined would be beautiful artworks. So, I began CHASING THE SHADOWS of flora. I took dry parts of plants. I held them or at times just kept them on my drawing book's paper, and began to draw, following the shadows of these floral parts. This was the first time that I did it. I gotta say, from this experience I learnt a few things that I will be bringing into practice from here onwards, and I believe it will make the artworks only better. Few things, such as doing it at morning or afternoon. Because there needs to be good bright sunlight. This bright sunlight allows proper and darker shadows. We can focus the floral parts by adjusting them in our hand, and managing the distance between them and the paper (onto which their shadows fall). This way, by such adjustment, we can manage to get good copies of object with less distortions (shadows). Also, there's no need to pluck green plants or flowers. You can simply stand near plants, adjust your position, and draw shadows. But also, in this manner it is difficult, because the wind constantly makes the flora move, which also constantly changes their shadows. So, it is better to use dry floral parts, which can be held in hand, which won't be much affected by the gusts of wind.

- Dhairyasheel Dayal

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Good in a Person.

Question:

You wish to hug some people,

those same who will hug you

to backstab you.

You offer helping hand to those hanging at cliff,

those same who will throw you down 

once they are pulled up.

You lend rope to those who need to climb up,

those same who will cut that rope

when it is your time to climb.

You will jump in water to save those,

those same who will drown you.

And when you know they will do so,

Will you still be there for them?

Answer: I don't know whether I will do it again, 

but, what when I have done it already?

- Dhairyasheel Dayal 

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