Under the Canopy of SJCC (an art camp experience)
An art camp or residency gives an artist what he/she craves for - a hassle-free creative time with every need catered to while we need to indulge only in art, whole-heartedly. I was lucky enough to be...
View ArticleOpen the windows
A room with a viewcan be enjoyedonly if the windows are open.I spend my days and nightsweaving my thoughtstrying to bring orderin between all the chaos.Trying to fill the gapswhere there's void,trying...
View ArticleSketchbook Pages and Mini Paintings
“Tipu’s fort” or “Palakkad fort” is named after Hyder Ali’s son who is said to have rebuilt this fort in 1766 A.D. The early history of this fort is not much known. It was under the Zamorins and when...
View ArticleMoon Ladies
Sorry that I haven't been able to post for the last couple of weeks. I was travelling with my family and I hadn't enough time to paint a thing except a sketch or two. I am not very much fond of drawing...
View ArticleAlserkal Avenue Arts District
Alserkal Avenue, named after its founder is the brainchild of Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, was established in 2007 is situated in the industrial neighborhood of Al Quoz spreads across a space of...
View ArticleAlserkal Avenue Arts District - Part 2
Alserkal Avenue, named after its founder is the brainchild of Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, was established in 2007 is situated in the industrial neighborhood of Al Quoz spreads across a space of...
View ArticleAlserkal Avenue Arts District - Part 3 (Final)
Alserkal Avenue, named after its founder is the brainchild of Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, was established in 2007 is situated in the industrial neighborhood of Al Quoz spreads across a space of...
View ArticleThe Prophet - Kahlil Gibran - Illustrations (a study)
Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death, and conveys the yearning for a Unity of Being that can only be achieved through love.I...
View ArticleThe Prophet - Kahlil Gibran - Illustrations (a study) - Part 2
Kahlil Gibran's poetry is soulful as you can see from the excerpts and his illustrations are Blake-like, having that eerie sensuousness to it. Continuing my illustration journey of Gibran's "The...
View ArticleAnimal Sketches - Photo Challenge
Trying different mediums is something that interests me the most just as trying different themes. We all talk about signature style, for me, it does change with each medium (acrylics, watercolour, pen...
View ArticleNocturne Series - studying the celestial sky.
Nocturnes or Nightscapes have always fascinated me. There was a time when I used to think I could probably study Astronomy or celestial mechanics, as a girl. But then soon I found Literature and arts...
View ArticleCarpe diem!
Some posts are more organized and some just happen and this post belongs to the latter. Not a very happy post, let me say beforehand...Sometimes when there’s so much chaos around, you enter a state of...
View ArticleFloods, Fluids and Flowers
It's over a month since I posted and I really can't pinpoint on one thing...I am really sorry guys for not having posted for that long! But seriously, I needed a break not from blogging as such but to...
View ArticleCommission, Inktober and Hopes
The past couple of weeks has been really busy with a lot of stuff to do and not having enough time! I finished a commission work for a dear friend in Abu Dhabi. He had selected a work which was...
View ArticleInktober - Week 1 & 2 - Temple Sculptures
Inktober is here again and yes, it’s pretty exciting!! I took part in Inktober last year for the first time and fortunately I was able to complete 31 drawings in 31 days. Hopefully this year too! Like...
View ArticleInktober - Week 3 & 4 - Temple Sculptures
Inktober has reached mid-way and I am lagging 5 days as I had to travel to Dubai, just 3 days; fourth day we were travelling back, before my visa expired. By the time I got back, I was down with fever...
View ArticleInktober 2018 - the last of the series
Here's the last of my Inktober series. Though I completed it by 5 Nov. I couldn't post it last week. It was a hectic week and I had so many things to manage. If you haven't seen the earlier two posts,...
View ArticleWhere Art Happens - Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018 - First Impressions
It's Biennale days in Kochi and one may find art everywhere - every nook and corner - if one has an eye for it (or even otherwise probably). The main venue Aspinwall and the neighbourhood is loaded...
View ArticleWhere Art Happens - Enunciation of an Enigma - Juul Kraijer - KMB 2018
One of the artists’ whose works I could relate to most at many levels is perhaps Juul Kraijer, the dynamic Dutch artist. Her works are mystical and quite uncanny and it’s hard to explain its effect on...
View ArticleWhere Art Happens - Thought is also a Matter - KMB 2018
I chanced upon Vaishali Oak and Raju Sutar at one of the exhibition Openings in Gallery 27, Mattancherry two years ago. Vaishali and I connected instantly, and from then on we have met on and off at a...
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