Ilustration Friday entry for the topic – Toy (भातुकली)

Toy…when you think of a toy, you will find thousands of beautiful and different types of toys all over.
When I was a child, I had very few toys…and one of them was a set of ‘Bhaatukli’ (भातुकली) which means a set of ‘cooking utensils’. Most of girls in India are familiar and might have played with this in their childhood.
Earlier this cooking set was made of clay, then came the wooden version…and nowadays you will find it in steel as well…”I have the one made in ‘Copper’ back home in India!”
The treats used for playing with this were peanuts, jaggery, rice flakes etc. The whole afternoon in summer vacations were full of ‘Bhaatukli’ (भातुकली) playing with friends.
Childhood, the beautiful days of life…

For this week’s topic, I used ‘Air Dry’ Clay to craft this cooking set toy and painted it to give the ‘Terracotta’ look. Hope you like it.

An ‘Elephant’ for breakfast

Elephant sandwich
Being an artist, I find shapes everytime, everywhere…
Was having my favorite breakfast, ‘Egg Omelette on Wheat Toast’, had a bite and placed it back on the plate…voila – I discovered an ‘elephant’s trunk’, and ended up making one!
…then probably, I ate the whole ‘elephant’…though I’m vegetarian 🙂