Danushka Madhushan

                                                                                    We have all heard about the Dambadeniya kindom era.There is a place in our city with antiquities that belong to that era.Its name is Meddepola Raja Maha Viharaya.This is actually  a temple. But this temple has created it self  with strange architectural features.The temple is built on a large boulder.There are paintings belonging to the kandy era in this temple.Also, a talented artist named Solius mendis has painted this temple.And the old corrupt is in this temple. There is nothing wrong with calling this temple a very beautuful art gallery. Our city is proud to have such an ancient site.                   

I like drawing a lot. I love drawing. One of the mediums I use to draw is colour pencils.  I use colour pencils to draw portraits. Here are some of the colour pencil drawings I drew. Drawing with colour pencils is not as easy as you think.care should be taken when mixing  colour pencils one by one while drawing. Drawing using colour pencils can not be done very quickly. But when I draw slowly, I like to draw with colour pencils.So I enjoy drawing with colour pencils. Some days I even draw pictures at the request of my friends.    

                 We all have a teacher who changed our lives. I have a teacher like that too. He is my art teacher who taught me art. His name is H.M.  Jayawardena Herath. Jayawardena Sir was the one who taught me art from grade 6. My art teacher helped me to go to university after passing the A / L examination. He encouraged me a lot.  Some days he taught me art to come to Sir's house. That Sir is very close to me and Jayawardena knows everything about me. I have come so far in my life because of my art sir.  I am forever indebted to Sir Jayewardene for helping me to build my life.

                          I like to draw in watercolor medium. When I have free time I use watercolor and I enjoy drawing very much. I use watercolor to draw portraits.  I specialy like to draw portraits of the elderly. I like to express the expressions on their faces through the painting.  I use Konkara papers to draw these drawings. I take a lot of time to draw.  Then I have the ability to create a beautiful design at the end.  It actually takes about 2 days to draw these pictures.  After finishing my drawings , I can be happy.

                       I did not have a good smartphone until recently.  I have a phone but I can't do much with it.  That is because the ram and the rom of that phone are very low. The ram is 512mb. The rom is 8 gb.  It is difficult to work a lot with this phone.  So I decided to buy a new phone.  I worked as a laborer in a workplace in Pothuhera and earned money  With that money I thought of buying a phone. I was looking for a phone with 6 gb of ram and 128 gb of rom. I also found such a phone. The type of phone I was looking for was the Samsung A21s.  I bought the phone for Rs. 41,500.  So I was very happy the day wich I picked up the phone.        

  we all have beautiful school days.I also have such a school life. My school's name is wickramashila National school. I was educated in this school from year 1 to year 13. That school life was really beautiful. I had made a lot of friends when I was about 13 years old. I also met teachers who were close to life. I finished my school life in 2018. Now I am studying higher education at the University of the Visual and Performing Arts. My school was the main exile for me to enter the university like this Although I do not go to school now, I am very proud of my school. I am now a university  student. Even so, I was infinite to attend the upcoming schooling.               

                                                                              portraits are a profile of art. So I love learning everything in art. So I tried to learn to  draw portraits. I thought of drawing the first portrait using a graghite pencil. I thought of presenting the first portait in the painting  by Mr. Jakson anthony. I used an A3 size bristol board to draw the portrait. I did not use a lot of tools to draw this picture. I took the eraser, pencil and cotton button. It took me about 2 days to draw this picture. I worked slowly and finished beautifully when I painted my first graphite pencil. I was very happy when I finished drawing .

                                I  wrote advanced level exam in  2018.written and I just got home. Mean while, the geogrphy class organized a trip for the children. So ,our friends organized that trip to go to the Riveston.They invited me too. Riveston I never went. So I had a very desire to go to Riveston and I was involved in the trip. We started our journey early  in the morning and left for Riverston at 10.00 am. That side is really beautifull. Also very cold. We all climbed mount Riveston and sang at the top of the hill. In the evening we all left to come home. However I had a lot of fun with this trip.        

                                    I like to draw color pencil drawings very much specially.I like to draw portit Arts so much.l used color pencil to draw this Art.I like to watch the "Kotipathiyo" teledrama and i love character of Ranji so much.So,I used color pencil to draw this character.After finishing this color pencil art,I was very happy. And also I published this my facebook account. Then I published this in a facebook group which name is Arts of Sri Lanka Many good comments were recieved to this Art from friends.After I was publishing this in that facebook group Mr.Rohan Wijethunga or Ranji had seen this Art. He called me and thanked very much. I didn't want to popular by drawing this But I was very happy because of Mr, Rohan's good comment which gave to me. And also I thanked Mr,Rohan to give that value to my Art.

                                        I like to study about different  subjects of Visual Art.  among them I like to study about sculpture most though I like to study sculpture, I don't have knowledge about sculpture. because of my desire to sculpt sculptures, I asked from the sculptures that how to make sculptures. But they didn't give correct information about it. However, I didn't stop my desire. So, I thought that, I must sculpt a sculpture. And also I started to make  it  by using clay. First I made a armicher and I pasted clay on it. Sadly, the sculpture was brokendown three times. But I didn't stop my  courage. I tried again and again. So, finally I made sculpture by using clay. So that sculpture wasn't broken  down. And also I protected my sculpture  by covering polythene and I got wet my sculpture  because it goes some  period  ...

 After  I was passing the O/L exam,I selected Art Subjects for my A/L studies. And also,my subjects are Art,sinhala and Geography. I thought that,the frist when I started A/L however I must go to the university of the visual and performing Arts. Because I  want to success my future in art. I started to learn my A/L studies in 2016. While I was learning,many problems were came to me. But I didn't stop my studies and worked hard.Then I faced A/L exam in August 2018. I did exam well.And also result was AAC with 1.2334 z core. My district rank was 969.                      Though my result  was good. I knew I can't go to the  university because of my low z score. So I decided to apply to A/L exam as second shy. While I was  reading exam,I faced to the aptitude test in the university of the visual and performing Arts.And also,I passed this aptitude test well. After that,cut off marks were puplished to the in...

                                               I did not have a motorcycle until revently. But there are countless times when I wish I had a motorcycle of my own. My friends had new models of motorcycles but  I did not have  the resources to buy such a new motorcycle. But I did not give  the desire to buy a motorcycle. When I go to school, I go to various jobs during the holidays and buy a motorcycle for the first time with the money I collect. I buy this motorcycle from a person I know near my house.          I bought the bike at that time for around Rs.15,000. When I was buying it,the bicycle was dilapidated and some parts of a bicycle had not there. But the lack of other parts on the motorcycle was not a problem for me. Even after that I had a strong desire to upgrade the bike bought with the money earned from various job...

                                                                                         Although I was selected for the University of the visual and performing arts, I have not yet met any of my university friends. The  reason for this is the closure of universities due to the covid 19 epidemic which is prevalent in today's society. But I love to meet my university friends. However,shanuka is the first university friend I met. He lives in  kurunegala one day I told shanuka over the phone that I was coming to kurunegala to buy some art books and that day shanuka also came to see me. I was very happy that he came to see me. As you can see from the photos, he looks taller, but he's actually shorter than me. He  is a very humble character.  After me...

                                                             Traditional temple painting is one of the most unique art forms in Sri Lanka.There are many experts in this field and Mr. Sarlis can be described as a very talented artist.The subject he used for the painting was the character of the Buddha.Thus "sarana mangallya" can be identified as a very important painting painted by him.This painting is a very famous painting.  I love to study such traditional paintings and I also tried to paint the same painting that Mr. sarlis drew.I drew this picture on a canvas 2 feet wide by 3 feet high.Here I used acrylic and banner paints as media.It took me about 6 days to complete this painting as it took a long time to grasp the fine brush strokes used by Mr. Sarlis in the original design.However, after finishing this painting, I was very...