Microsoft Freshpaint Studies | 2020

Personal Works | 2020

During the pandemic, stuck indoors and with very less to do, I started doing paint studies referencing different photographs and film snapshots. Unfortunately, one day my laptop broke down and I couldn't get it repaired because, well, the pandemic!

So I was stuck indoors, without a working laptop. There was my father's work laptop at home tho. Sadly, due to restrictions, I couldn't install any software on it, because of which I couldn't even connect my Wacom to the laptop. So to make do with the situation, I started using the pre-installed software 'Microsoft Freshpaint' and created these works with a mouse.

Fresh Paint study of a handmaid in a red cloak and white bonnet, from The Handmaid's Tale
Fresh Paint study of two people walking on a misty beach at sunset
Fresh Paint study of a woman's face in low light, from The Age of Adaline
Pencil sketch portrait of John Lennon with round glasses
Fresh Paint study of Amélie smiling, in warm green and gold
Fresh Paint study of a group of friends sitting on rocks in a lush forest
Fresh Paint study of the Urdu word Ishq in calligraphy over a blurred green and red background
Painterly portrait of a woman with blue eye makeup, painted in Microsoft Fresh Paint during the pandemic

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