Murti : Indo Vedic sculpture

Art begins with an idea. From there, a sketch, a draft or a plan. There are many sketches refined bit by bit. Once the idea is fully formed, then perhaps, work begins on the final piece. Drawing sculpture and sketching ideas is the first step any sculptor will take before creating a piece.It is, in and of itself- somewhat of an art form.Drawing sculpture and sketching ideas is important for the artist to develop and understanding what one wants to create. It begins with the process of what they want to make, how best to make their idea, and how the final product will be produced. There is no final stage to the drawing as even in the final process there are developments.So here are some of my Paintings of Indo-Vedic Sculpture for you  

The temple of the Sun at Konark is magnificent in its construction. It has been known for the supreme achievement of the architectural genius of Orissa. Much of the relief work found on the outer walls of the temple at Konark has erotic sculptures. Many are of opinion that such erotic sculptures are of indicative of the emergence of a phase the "tantrikism in Hinduism" at that time.

The characteristics of the physical composition of the materials witch this sculptures are made  such as stone, marble, sandstone, clay and bronze among others, offers the possibility to be durable and preserve for the times been. They can be placed both in the outer areas of the temples as well as in the indoors space dedicated to the worship area.

All the plans and sketches of the evolving design will be kept in a sketchbook by the artist. These will be used to chart the development of designs or explore new ideas. For renowned artists such as Da Vinci, Dali, Moore or others -these works often become recognised pieces of art in themselves.  They may explore the origin of famous pieces or give us an insight into the artistic process. Sometimes, they may even tell the stories of works that never made it from the pages of their sketchbook into reality

The method of “sculptors drawings” means, that we try to approximate the motive by using three dimensional geometric figures like cubes, cylinders and spheres. If we know the basic perspective rules it is very simple to foreshorten figures.This method was very often used by sculptors, who sketched drafts of sculptures. It is a constructive drawing method. Therefore it is seldom used when sketching existing motifs, but on the other hand it is the favourite procedure of people, who want to layout not existing motifs.With growing experience you’ll draw not the complete geometric elements, only parts of them. They are drawn with hard pencil or little pressure. And this method too is mostly used in combination with the other strategies.There is a theory of visual gestalt perception, that people can recognize objects so fast as they do because there are simple three dimensional geometric forms, coded on neuronal level in our brain. These elements are called “Geones”.If that is true, the sculptors drawing would be a visualisation of this geons. It would be easy for us to sketch them because we are operating with them anyway in our brain.Anyway, soon after the discovery of the perspective rules “sculptors drawings” appeared and where used for composing of sculptural or painted ensembles. The picture above shows an old example of a drawing of this kind.