A day at the Delhi College of Art

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The installation sculpture of the little girls sitting down to study was the first thing that I saw every morning when I entered the college grounds and it really brightened up my day. I then spent half my day with the 2nd [...]

Ramesh Sleeping

Ramesh Sleeping
Originally uploaded by HughPee.
There was a creativity assignment in the Wet Canvas! Classroom Forum on looking at objects from a different sized view finder. I was too caught up with some other work to do it. While clearing up my papers I found this little bit of torn paper with this sketch.  It is approx 8" X 2" [...]

Vijay Mohan, Principal, Delhi College of ARt

Study in Brush and Ink based on a photograph taken earlier in class. This one is much better than my effort with a reed pen which came out real wonky and i havent uploaded it ":P"
I did a second one of me from a photograph taken to help me in my stone sculpture. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stone Sculpture

One of the very exciting things about being in college was working with mediums that i would never have considered otherwise. We had an option of stone or wood carving for the 2nd years and i think all of us in class chose stone. We were to have 3 X 3 [...]

Sleeping Giant

I was quite pleased with Baba, the oil painting that I had completed in my second week at college. It was my first there. Ramesh the teacher had really inspired us with his demos and he asked us to do small pieces at home over the weekend. I got back home in high [...]

Baba - my first painting in art college

My very first painting at art college. This is my second oil painting. Surprisingly both were on large canvases. I was a little apprehensive when they asked us to get full size sheets to draw in the first week so it wasnt a surprise when we were asked to get a 30″ [...]