Kanaka's Art Site - Selected Artwork and Photography by Kanaka Hettiarachchi

Created: 05/10/97 | Last revised: 01/03/07

Thanks for visiting! This web site contains drawings, paintings, and photography from my personal art portfolio. Specific pages include descriptions of painting methods and commonly used art supplies.

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	MF3 Main Slide (8"x6", CAD, © September, 2006) This application wall portrays the vision of the DARPA MF3 Center: to perform state-of-the-art collaborative research in fundamental areas of micro/nano fluidics for commercial and defense applications. This design took a week to complete.

	Cambridge (14"x18", Oil on Canvas, © March, 2000) This painting is based on a photo taken of St. John's College at Cambridge University in England. The distant bridge is the Bridge of Sighs, named after the original in Venice. This painting took four days to complete.

	Boston Harbor (16"x20", Oil on Canvas, © September, 1998) This painting is based on a photo taken of Boston Harbor and of the ship where the famous Boston Tea Party took place. This painting took nine days to complete, and is one of my largest and most complex works.

---Inspirational Art Quotes:

---"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way" - Georgia O'Keeffe

---"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations" - Paul Cezanne

---"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist" - Edward Hopper

---"True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind" - Mahatma Gandhi

---"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way" - Claude Monet

---"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands" - Michelangelo

---"Study the science of art and the art of science" - Leonardo da Vinci

---"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" - Pablo Picasso

Photography

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Paintings

12-2005: Sri Lanka

09-2004: Blue Tailed Bird

09-2004: Torri Gate

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