Website features works of artists from small towns

Artists from across India, especially from small towns are now able to display their artworks through a new portal that endeavours to showcase new talent.
Huesandstrokes.Com set up by the Anita Wadhwani and artist Akshay Verma features artists from tier II and tier III cities and has participation from from small towns such as Katni (Madhya Pradesh), Ludhiana (Punjab), Beed (Bihar) and Nashik (Maharashtra).
"The portal encourages artists with special needs such as Anand S from Chennai, who despite his congenital disability originating from a spinal malformation follows his passion for art.," says Anita, Founder of the portal.
"Undeterred by physical discomforts and mental agony due to his longstanding physical ailments, he continues to paint. Though he cannot use the brush but is adept with the palette knife, with which he brings to life landscapes, which are semi abstract or semi realistic in both oil and acrylics," she says.

Additionally, this art portal also provides options to customise art, where customer can choose the artist and get painting tailor made in terms of size, colour, aesthetics and even budget.
The website features different genre of art and includes abstract, figurative, religious, landscape, charcoal drawings, contemporary, children as well as sculptures and photographs.
Currently the site features over 110 artists with 1000 paintings and founders say there are plans to increase this to 1000 artists in the next six months.
The artworks commence from Rs 2,000 onwards.