Turmeric Ganesh for Vinayaka Chathurthi -2015

This year, Eco-Friendly Ganesh took his shape from turmeric (Pasupu in Telugu, Haldi in Hindi).
Belly part is made of Wood Apple (Velakkaya) and rest is turmeric and kumkum for red colored coating.

Vegetable Vinayaka (2014)

Hello,

This year my eco-friendly Vinayak took Vegetable Ganesh shape.
Sorry to post after loooong time. Better late than never :)

Here is the brief description of the veggies used

Head - capsicum
Ears - Bottle gourd
Trunk - Ridge gourd
Eyes - Radish
Tusks - Lady finger
Stomach - Cucumber
Hands - green Cucumber
Legs - Brinjal
Crown - Bottle gourd & carrot

Chalk Piece Carvings

Chalk Piece Carvings..


I have done these two pieces of chalk carvings to gift my husband (Venu Gopal) on his birthday. I started carving chalks long back but could not preserve photos.

I like miniature carving. In my opinion, this teaches us patience, improves our concentration and sharpens our detailing skill. I try to do some more and post them here.

        

Making Ganesh Idol with wheat flour clay

Say 'NO' to PoP and chemical colors

With this thought, I made Ganesh idol at home with wheat flour clay and celebrated this Vinayaka Chavithi with eco-friendly friend :)

Ingredients to make modeling clay:

• Wheat Flour : 3 Cups
• Salt            : 1 Cup
• Water         : 1 Cup

Steps:

1. Mix all ingredients and leave for some time in airtight cover or container
2. Water oozes out from salt and the clay becomes more wet than before making the consistency better for modeling 
3. Start with Legs which also form the base of our idol. Press right leg at the bottom, make it a bit flat to resemble foot. Left leg can end in the inner bend without revealing the left foot 
4. Take some clay to form spherical stomach structure over legs. Join legs(base) and stomach from the back side by using some water and clay (like plastering with cement)
5. Now make chest part and extend it to make shoulders and top hands. Note that all these parts are to be joined from back as suggested in above step
6. Attach 2 more hands below and turn right hand upwards to form blessing hand. Put modaka (laddu) in left hand
7. Now time to make head. Take clay in spherical form and put on top of shoulder. Carefully press the sides to form ears. 
8. For trunk, take the clay in cylindrical form, make its one end flat, attach it to the face. Slowly making it thin, curve down at the bottom and cut the other end after sufficient length and curve. 
9. Make two tusks, attach them and break right tusk leaving small portion of it still attached.
10. Crown the lord in required shape and  decorate him as per your taste. 

Ganesh idol

Coloring:

1. I used sandal powder and kumkum and black kumkum paste (tilakam)

 

After Coloring

After decoration

Jai Ganeshaya Namaha