Manish 
Quoted: Recently, a friend told me that my charcoal pieces looked good. That was all the encouragement I needed to use the medium again. This portrait of Manish is one more for my College of Art portrait series. I've inadvertently ...
Linocut Print
Quoted: 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...
Patience
Quoted: 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...
Drinking Tea
Quoted: Ramesh doesn't like being photographed at least not when he's 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 act of swallowing some tea.Thi...
Keya - Monsoon Flower
Quoted: All Indian names have meanings. Keya means a monsoon flower. I was hoping to do one of her from Life but it didnt happen. These are from photo references taken when she was a couple of years younger. I'm still optimistic that I'll...
Another Scratchboard
Quoted: Sujata, a friend from Delhi, has sent me some lino boards, cutters and ink and I'm thrilled. Hoping to try out some print making soon. Until then I've saved a digital template of a prepped scratchboard. This was made f...
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Restating Lines
Quoted: It was after reading Danny Gregory's website that I took to restating lines with a pen without a care and have now grown to like them. Soon after, I joined Every Day Matters (EDM) the group started by him. Without doubt this is one of the bes...
Digital Scratchboard
Quoted: Had some time on hand and did not want to do the painting exercise I'm meant to Decided to try out something new digitally. Made a scratchboard and erased out a friends portrait. Need to do a few more before I get the hang of reversing the li...
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Digitally Done
Quoted: Project Andrew Wyeth continues.... I just cannot seem to resist drawing Andew Wyeth from his photographs. He has so many interesting lines on his face most of which i could not capture and so this is going to stay WIP until I lear...
Upside down
Quoted: I did my first upside down drawing following the instructions in Betty Edwards book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It was a line drawing by Picasso named Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. I liked what it looked like and that encouraged me...
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