Morning prayers

This is a painting I did last year in acrylics.A man praying to the sun early in the morning, before his routine morning walk by the lake.
     Since I have started painting in acrylics I wanted some depth in the canvas.I could not gauge my own paintings .The more time I spent with them ,I got attached to them and felt like a mother to my creations.Nothing was wrong with the paintings.Finally I took a call and painted in just black and white to see whether the depth is there in them without any colours. This was very tough for me.I love colours. I think all Indians love colours. We have a festival of colours called Holi , which like all Hindu festivals is accompanied with songs , dance and offering to Gods. The mourning is depicted by loss of colours by wearing white. So not to use any colours on the canvas was like meditation .all about concentration .That is how this painting was born.