First Exhibition

You are invited to our very first exhibition, “Friends and Faces” from March 16th to 31st at the Standard Chartered Bank, 67, Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka. In December, the bank opened an art gallery in its main branch to encourage upcoming artists by showcasing their work.
My friend Smita and I decided to take advantage of this [...]

A Creative Drawing Assignment

Drawing a portrait using “mechanical” lines is a part of the assignment given after this weeks Creative Drawing and Art Appreciation session with Javed Jalil. I chose a reference that I’ve used last week for a pen & ink. I know I shouldn’t be asking but if you squint you’ll get a [...]

I can get no satisfaction…..

Brian, a fellow EDMer, had the following to say and it matches how I feel. I was sure I would not be able to express it as well and so I asked him If I could quote him here.
We’re all victims of Hollywood’s romantic way of portraying things. Artists in the movies always seem [...]

Linocut Print

I’ve been back from my exciting and terrific holiday for over a week now and given myself a 101 reasons for why I wasnt painting as yet.
2 nights ago, armed with all the equipment I’d collected, I decided to take a proof of the Linocut that I’d been working on a while ago. This [...]

My little niece

Some babies smile soon after they are born and some dont or so I learnt when I first met my niece. She was a frowner and we laughed at and loved each little one that she chose to share with us. Here’s one of her asleep and frowning. Though this [...]

Self Portrait in Ink

This is the 3rd piece that I made today.  I’m just thrilled with that and not so much with this drawing!   I used a different pen today (Lamy Joy) and regretted it a bit as the ink in this one seems to collect in a small pool at times!  Makes it difficult to recover [...]

Watercolor Travel Kit & a Self Portrait

A few months back I read Nina Johansson’s post on A messy little watercolor project and became interested in the idea of making my art travel kit better. I was carrying a bunch of pens, pencils and pentel brush pens with black and a brown washes. I wanted to add more [...]

Trying my hand at Pop Art

Lifehacker had a post on Make your own Andy Warhol pop art pointing to Melissa Clifton’s tutorial on Andy-Warhol-Up Your Photographs. I’m waiting for some paint to dry on a portrait that I’m working on and decided to have some fun. And fun I did [...]

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 [...]

Fat

I've been planning on doing the Illustration Friday topic of the week - Fat - for a few days now. I'd thought that I'd do a slice of bread with a large dollop of butter on it :D.
Last night when I realised that that wasnt happening, I picked up a photograph of mine and [...]