water colours, 6B black matt,

water colours, felt pens, 6B black matt.

bombay summers

A series of illustrations done for a book on my grandmother's home remedies.
A personal account on what's handy in worst and best case scenario's.


darjeeling 2008

rockscapes

This bit features somewhere just outside of Bangalore... its called Savandurg and its one huge monolith of granite.
Its like a balancing act... you have some insane piling-up of forms and its briliant to sketch them. How best can you capture that?? Its huge, monotonous and difficult to get. I tried... what i've got here is more of a study in quick drawings..what kind of line defined this best? or maybe stroke? did capturing the light help define its shape?
"ask yourself as many questions as you can" i was told. And it helps.



i tried splitting it up into shapes and then adding the actual form...

Plantlife

some familiar... and some..

These are a set of works i had done for a course in drawing. Some of them are people i know and the others.. interesting people that caught my eye. I drew so many people that day... some familiar and some whom i had fun meeting... i love people.

a seating area

bangalore scapes

We did quite a few assignments after this sketching trip. This one was a 2 hour excercise where we were allowed to freak out with all the sketches we had produced. Basically take all your drawings and create a composition out of it. You cold make a statement if you wanted to. Ours is a sort of Building cake commenting on the mess that has become of MG rd and other areas around it.

It was interesting to know how designers and artists are involved in the planning and development of city areas and other places. We were focussing on heritage sites and in keeping a certain level of homogenity in landscape. Being sensitive to the surroundings and pre-existing structures when planning. Mg road (originally being a military base) is home to quite a few old buildings but newer construction work is done with no consideration for what already exists.



Thats what we tried to bring about in this artwork. Mess. telegraph poles, wires, shops, brands, advertising, bilboards, dirt and in all of that those forgotten structures.

We worked on it as a pair.

the diaries

I've picked up this habit from my uncle. Collecting diaries and filling them up.... he just sits and doodles in them. Stacks and stacks of beautiful books with brilliant paper in just pen work - an occasional hint of colour here and there... He never thinks when he doodles..or he does but it hardly concerns what he's putting down on paper... i liked that bit.... my friends call it my trance when i sit at a stretch and just fill up pages one after an another... and its fun to flip through these books later... i read whatever i want from things i'd drawn some time ago...

photoshoots

In this one, I aimed at creating an image, slightly unsettling or intriguing using cut-outs,props and sets. I didnt want to use the computer for anything. The pictures were meant to have a slight narative to them...to provoke the viewer to think of a situation or to arouse curiosity... (this applies only to the first 2 pictures for now)


"The adoration"

the alleys

This one's done in acrylics... I improvised on
an old building i saw in Bombay... it didn't seem
to belong under that sunny sky...



The first canvas i did in a really long time...
and i enjoyed doing it... completely out of memory
at a time when i was obsessed with graphic novels..(i still am)

RED was another story i'd written alongside dragonfly.
This was a poster or a cover i'd cooked up for the story sitting at home one afternoon...