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 [...]

While reading a book on Van Gogh

After making a sketch of my left hand for the umpteenth time, I decided to copy a photograph of Van Gogh at 13 that I found in the book that I was reading. I’ve bought about 6 of them on different Masters and this is the first that I picked up to read. [...]

Bust my laptop :(

My screen froze this morning. This in a mac is pretty unusual but I didnt give it much thought and rebooted. And when it came back on again it was without the display. I can hear the computer starting but can see nothing on the screen. I’m already missing it!
So soon after [...]

Reflection - WIP

I've got stuck on the earlier WIP. Decided to start another instead of procrastinating further. I started this at my Monday morning Art Group meet. Worked on it some more this afternoon.
I chose this particular photograph by Sanzen as a reference as it had water and reflection which i [...]

Bobby Bare

I must confess that I had not heard of Bobby Bare until today. This was the second time I was attending an art get together with Harriet's group and it turned out to be an everybody do your own thing. I hadnt taken any references with me and was not in the mood to use [...]

Life drawing at Harriets

I was invited to join an art group for their Monday morning session. And that was this morning. Harriet is lovely, warm and friendly and I was immediately put at ease. They were going to have a Life Portrait session and the model was Parvati.
Decided to try her out in [...]

Shy

Delhi in winter gets really cold when compared with most other part of India especially the South.  We would sit in the gardens after lunch to catch some sun.  I was then on a mission to learn to take better photographs as well as references of my classmates for future paintings.  Another classmate, Yadvendra took this photograph [...]

Copying Van Gogh

There’s something about his self portraits that make you want to try them out. This one was reworked on. I did another one with poster colors which I will add to this post later. I think this one was the better of the two.
I’ve somehow made him look Indian   Reminds [...]

Amma

 This photograph was taken by me on a ride in a barge on the Suez Canal.   I was quite pleased with the effort when I made it in October 2005. Looking at it now…..
The EDM challenge for the week is to draw a picture of your mother.  And here I am in Kolkata visiting her [...]