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Stillness of the Storm
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| Size | : 12" x 18" |
| Medium | : Acrylic |
| Surface | : Canvas |
| Frame | : Included in the price |
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Stillness of the Storm is a 12" x 18" acrylic original by artist Nandkishor Shinde, centering Lord Shiva's face in deep indigo-blue, eyes closed, framed by a dense, restless field of burnt orange and gold that reads like an autumn forest caught mid-turn.
Shiva's forehead carries the tripundra, three horizontal white lines, with a single red tilak marked between the closed eyes, painted with a clean, deliberate precision that contrasts against the looser, more textured brushwork filling the rest of the canvas.
A slim white crescent moon rests just above his hair, and to the left, the faint silhouette of a trishul emerges from the dark background, both identifying marks kept subtle rather than emphasized, letting the closed-eyed stillness of the face carry the composition instead. A thin gold hoop earring catches the only warm metallic note on the face itself.
The title's tension plays out directly in the palette: Shiva's expression stays entirely at rest, untouched by the churning orange, rust, and gold foliage surrounding him, which Shinde builds with layered, overlapping brushstrokes that suggest wind moving through leaves rather than a single fixed scene.
A striped, cylindrical form rests in the lower right corner, its diagonal bands echoing the same warm palette as the leaves above it, grounding the composition's base in the same restless texture that fills the rest of the canvas.
Shinde keeps Shiva's blue skin smooth and largely unbroken by the surrounding texture, a deliberate technical choice that isolates the face as the one area of true calm in an otherwise busy, layered field of color. The transition from the smooth blue face to the darker, more granular indigo of the hair and shoulders happens gradually rather than at a hard edge, softening the boundary between the figure and the field it emerges from.
This is a hand-painted acrylic original on canvas, not a reproduction. The layered foliage carries genuine brushwork depth, built up in visible passes that catch light differently depending on the angle it's viewed from, the gold highlights catching more sharply under direct light than under softer, indirect illumination.
Shinde's treatment of Shiva here favors quiet interiority over dramatic ornament — no elaborate crown, no visible third eye, just the closed lids, the tilak, and the crescent moon doing the work of identification, leaving the rest of the canvas free to build atmosphere rather than iconographic detail.
Stillness of the Storm suits a puja room, meditation corner, living room, or any space where a devotional presence is welcome without an overtly ornate or traditional treatment — its restrained palette and contemporary brushwork sit comfortably in both traditional and modern interiors, the calm at its center exactly what the title promises.
