A surreal experience

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Yesterday, it was probably the first time, i went to a café and painted. A place which offers to both eat and paint. The first thing that caught my attention was, every table has some paints and brushes with food. People chilling out, getting their creative juices flowing on the porcelain things, relaxing and destressing with painting strokes. I had never realized that painting could have that therapeutic effect on me.


Since this was my first chance, and i wanted to play safe (keeping it mediocre), i chose a coaster to unleash my imaginations with strokes and colors. A simple 10X10 size coaster was my canvas now. Instead of brewing some words, i was going to flow with colors, and to my surprise it was gratifying. So we collected our canvases, and started pouring our imaginations on the art pieces. 



I took the coaster as a safe place, as the area was small to be filled in. And somewhere i wanted to get the picture on this piece, the one which has captivated me since my last trip to Andamans. A sunrise at the beach! 

After finishing one side, i realized it had another side as well. I wanted to paint with the colors, a rare sight when it comes to sky and sunrise, but i had witnessed it in Andamans, and was one of the most surreal sights, my eyes have ever seen. This is what i could do with brush and paints, and is obviously no where close to the picture in my phone, which again doesn't do justice to the real one.  




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