Patience

I enjoyed this mornings Life Drawing class at Kuhu’s. My last class for a while as I’ll be away on holiday starting Friday. Of the 3 models who have posed for us recently, this one holds her poses well and has a lot of patience.
Today I laid down some proportions before adding detail [...]

Charles P. Sovek

CHARLES P. SOVEK
March 23, 1937 – June 8, 2007
We are deeply saddened to report that Charles Sovek passed away unexpectedly on June 8th. Our plans are to keep his memory and artwork alive through this website, but please be patient as we work through this difficult time.
www.sovek.com

I am saddened to discover that Charles Sovek has [...]

Learning to use charcoal

Full of enthusiasm after this mornings session at Kuhu’s, I got back home and tried another portrait, from Life, using Sudha crayons ( Indian equivalent for Conte Crayons ). Its overworked but if i dont do some of these how will I learn? I’m thinking of making the background darker hoping that it [...]

Birthday Girl

For 3 days I’ve been sitting in front of the computer and procrastinating. Luckily Uma’s birthday was incentive enough to make me stay up late last night to make this. Added a Polaroid Photo frame ( from About.com ) today to make a homemade digital birthday card and sent it [...]

Photographed!

Most people are self-conscious when being photographed. I too feel the same especially if the photographer takes time to compose and take his shot. I do however like looking at pictures and would like to see some that include me. This is incentive enough to put up with the process cheerfully.
Some photographers [...]

Life drawing at Kuhu’s - 3

I was disappointed with my work at last weeks life drawing session and havent got around to taking photos to put it up.  Todays class went well in the end.
We were supposed to do several small sketches to improve our compositional skills.  I misunderstood.  Initially, I got carried away and spent the larger part of [...]

Drinking Tea

Ramesh doesn’t like being photographed at least not when he has just woken up. As you can see I havent let that stop me I was trying out my father-in-laws new Canon S3 and its 12 X zoom and caught Ramesh in the act of swallowing some tea.
This is my [...]