Project Modigliani

To jumpstart my painting activity, after my many holidays, I joined the Master of the Month group at WetCanvas! The idea is to copy the work of a pre-selected artist. It’s Amedeo Modigliani for the months of September and October. I hoped to make a copy of one or more of [...]

St. Catherine’s Monastery

St. Catherine’s Monastery, in the Sinai peninsula, has been a centre for religious pilgrimages for over fifteen hundred years. My husband visited here with a friend in 2003 and came back with lots of lovely photographs. I couldnt make it as we had visitors at home. I hope to make it there [...]

Self Portrait

Picture 115
Originally uploaded by HughPee.
This one was made for the Self Portrait Marathon started by Sparky Donatello of Crackskull Bob's blog.  It's going to go on till the end of June so just check it out and give it a try.  I think that this one is the closest that i've come to getting a likeness when i [...]

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 [...]

Myoung

I had taken a bunch of portraits of classmates at the Delhi College of Art with the hopes of using them as reference material for drawing or painting.
Here is one more that I have gotten around to using. After the way I felt on completing Rajika's picture, I decided that I just had to [...]

Raju ki Rajika

After doing 4 portraits and getting positive reactions I decided to make one for Rajika. Decided to continue with the sepia effect but using three colors this time - yellow ochre, burnt sienna and burnt umber. I even tried looking at seperating the picture into 3 areas of light, middle and dark.
I must [...]

Yuv floating

Used mostly Black Poster color for this one.
When I showed Amina the first one (Ninja Turtles), unlike me, she seemed quite happy other than pointing out that i'd messed up one of Yuv's eyes and asking me to fix it.
And she wanted me to do more. She was planning to give them as a [...]

Lucien Freud

The HOD of the Painting department, Abhimanyue introduced me to the work of artists like Freud, Bonnard and Patwardhan.   He was very generous and loaned me some books to study.  I just fell in love with Lucien Freud’s style and tried copying his self portrait.   It was a time when I was drawing directly with [...]