One is not the enemy of Zero
BhaskART began with a belief that One is not the enemy of Zero, a blank canvas and a midlife experiment.
I am Bhaskar, a Chief Operating Officer in a B2B marketing company. Most of my professional life has been spent thinking about strategy, growth, leadership, and the unpredictable patterns of business.
Painting arrived much later. In my forties.
Not as a lifelong ambition and not as a career pivot. Just curiosity. I picked up a brush to see what would happen.
Something unexpected did.
The canvas started teaching lessons.
Not about art techniques, but about life, creativity, and work.
Every painting seemed to go through the same stages that many projects in business go through. The exciting beginning. The awkward middle where everything looks wrong. The slow progress that only appears after repeated effort. And the final moment when you realise a piece is never truly finished, only abandoned.
Over time I began writing down these observations.
BhaskART is a collection of those reflections.
Each post begins with a painting and ends with a thought. Sometimes about creativity. Sometimes about leadership. Sometimes about the strange similarities between building a painting and building something meaningful in life.
This is not an art tutorial website.
It is a place where painting becomes a lens to think about:
- Creativity
- Consistency and discipline
- Leadership and decision-making
- The messy process behind meaningful work
- and the small lessons hiding in everyday experiences
Most of the ideas here are accidental discoveries that happened while standing in front of a canvas trying to fix something that didn’t quite look right.
As it turns out, fixing a painting and fixing a business problem require surprisingly similar skills, patience, perspective, and the ability to live with uncertainty for longer than you would like.
BhaskART sits at the intersection of art, philosophy, and practical life lessons.
If you enjoy exploring how creativity shapes thinking and how everyday experiences reveal deeper ideas about work and life, you will probably feel at home here.
And if nothing else, you will see what happens when a COO decides to challenge a blank canvas.
The canvas usually wins.
About the author
Bhaskar is a business leader, writer, and painter. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of a B2B marketing company and has spent over a decade working with technology companies on strategy, branding, and growth.
BhaskART is his ongoing exploration of creativity and life lessons discovered through painting.
He is also the author of the upcoming book One Is Not the Enemy of Zero
Why this site exists
Because sometimes a painting explains things that spreadsheets cannot.
About the BhaskART Logo
- The paintbrush & the nib of the pen represent my preferred tools of expression of ART, A Random Thought.
- Free strokes represent the simplicity of my philosophy about art in specific and life in general.
- The palette completes the picture to represent my initials nb.
- Colours in the palette represent freedom we have to do what we want with our blank canvas, called life.
Before you go
If you have read this far, thank you. That means something.
BhaskART is not a finished product. It is a work in progress. Like every painting on this site and every post in the blog. There will be more paintings, more thoughts, more attempts at getting it right.
The hope is simple: that this inspires you to pick up a long-forgotten hobby, or start a new one entirely.
It is never too late to start.
The canvas does not care about your resume.
