Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland is one of the best places I have been to where you can easily find the nature at its best display. This painting is from my trip last year and it is a great reminder to look back at while in COVID19 lock down.

These are the interim shot during the painting. This painting took me 2 months to complete as other things in life gotten in the way of importance.

Towards the end of the painting I spent several more days to further improve on the fine details of the painting. It is amazing how the fine little details add soo much to the painting and bring it to the life.

Switzerland is just breathtaking and every where you turn up in the great alps, is just another view worth painting. The painting of Männlichen is based on a photo i took from a point on a hike to Royal walk up in the ridge. I got up here from the cable car that I took from Wengen (also should note you can ride on top of this cable car.) 

Here are the progress shots of the painting as I documented them at the end of each painting session.

And the final end point of the painting.

Reflecting on the Progress

It is a relatively hard challenge for me when every time I must make the next painting layer. I think because of the overwhelming amount of details i must add to it. But what I realized is putting a base layer with relatively similar colors to actual image, I can cover a lot of the surface and not be overwhelmed but feel accomplished and in that moment not worry about having to do finer details. Once the surface is covered with a base layer it is easier to add finer details which further defines the structure of the painting to its realistic view.

This painting is available for sale at this moment and kindly contact me if you are interested in the painting.

Hello everyone I am Ashan Jay. I am not an extraordinaire or a smart genius, I am just an average guy who falls just like everyone else but learn from it and stand up taller and through persistence, move forward at an effort that is mostly comfortable to me. Long long time ago, I created EventON, an event calendar plugin for WordPress.

EventON was just a fun project at first. I used google calendar a lot but I did not like the idea of sharing my personal data with google and knowing they sell my data for marketing companies. So I created EventON for people to create events and also be able to own their own data instead of giving it to google. EventON is little over 8 years old today and have a great customer base of 47,000 amazing customers from all parts of the world.

By re-creating ashanjay.com, I am hoping to use this website as a portal for all my creations and other interests to sort of connect them together and to share knowledge about coding and everything that I have learned over the years of running EventON successfully. I also will be using this site to test out new ideas and prototype software I have in-development, to get feed back. In the mean time be sure to check out the gym countdown timer on the home page.

The commenting on this site will be enabled as I slowly add things to this. One thing I do ask is, if you have questions about EventON kindly use our eventON support system for those instead of contact form in this website 😉

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