World War 2 sketch : Ambush

World War 2 sketch : Ambush
Pencil on Classmate sketchpad
34cm X 27 cm

Mom and me (watercolor)

Ma aru moi (Mom and me)
Watercolor on handmade paper
16.5inchs X 12 inchs

This painting is done from a photograph taken in the year 1987 when my parents took me to Puri beach for the first time. Love u Ma.

Sunset at the Puri beach

Sunset at the Puri beach
12 inch X 16.5 inch
Watercolor on Canson montval

Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits in watercolor

Tribute to a living legend
Mark Knopfler in watercolour
watercolor on handmade paper
34cm X 27 cm

Staithes watercolor challenge

Staithes watercolour......January 2012 Wetcanvas watercolour challange
Camel artist watercolour on handmade paper..
34cm X 27cm

This is another watercolor challenge I did in Wetcanvas. Really had a great time doing this specially since this place is an artists' paradise. I have happy with the output.

A Nishi tribal village watercolor

A house of the Nyishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
Camel Artist watercolour on handmade paper
34cm X 27cm

This is my first attempt to do a watercolor featuring the Nishi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. The Nyishi or Nishi people, principaly found in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. They are also called "Nyashang", meaning 'people of the land or the human being', by people belonging to Kurung Kumey district. They inhabit the Papum Pare, East Kameng, Lower Subansiri, Kurung Kumey, parts of Upper Subansiri districts of Arunachal Pradesh, as well as the Sonitpur District and North Lakhimpur district of Assam.

A watercolor challenge

MacDonald River watercolour.
Camel artist watercolour on handmade paper..
34cm X 27cm

Sharing with you all a challenge that I took part in Wetcanvas.com. This is a watercolor challenge of the MacDonald River......I enjoyed doing this challenge as watercolor is a very hard medium to work with. Sharing with you all the original photo and my work.

Near Shillong Polo Ground

"Near Shillong Polo ground"
34cm X 27cm
Watercolor

Well I almost forgot to update the blog....sorry for that...here is an artwork I did a few months back. This work was done from a photograph taken by my father when we visited Shillong about 10 years ago. Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya, also known as the Scotland of the East, situated on the northeastern part of India. Beautiful place, beautiful people, beautiful culture :).

Oranges...stilllife in watercolor

Oranges (stilllife from life)
Camel Artist Watercolour on Canson
30cm X 25cm
 


One of my most favorite fruit and now I am doing my first still life in watercolor...It really feels awesome. I am still having a lot of problems dealing with this medium but this one seems to come out nicely. Please enjoy.

Landscape in soft pastels 3

3rd landscape in soft pastels

Mungyo gallery semi hard pastels, Conte carre landscape hard pastels, Mungyo Artist's soft pastels and Koh-I-NOOR hardtmuth Artist's dry chalk

Canson white pastel paper

Trying a difficult composition this time. Lots of foliage in the foreground...first finished off the composition with Mungyo semi hard pastels....blocking in the white paper with dark colours.....I gave the sky a white light pinkish feel to suggest a early morning scene.....the sprayed fixative over it to fix the first layer. Started working on the second layer with soft pastels and did the details o the third layer using Conte carre hard pastels. Love the colours...love the pastels...and really enjoyed doing this composition. Still a work in progress.

Landscape in soft pastels 2

Landscape in soft pastel (my second landscape in soft pastels)

Mungyo soft pastels and Camel soft pastels on Canson pastel


After so much encouragements received from some of the best soft pastel painters here in facebook I have decided to try my hands on this second one. I had no idea how to go about it but I let my instincts play its part. I started blocking the white paper with background dark colours which ultimately served as an underpainting. Later I started out with the details. I did not use semi hard pastels for the underpainting and that is why I am not very sure if the soft pastel would hold on to the paper without a fixative. Need to work with layers and see what rewards the final look of this painting brings me.

Wild Creek after Anton Gutknecht

"Wild Creek" after Anton Gutknecht

Pen and Ink on Ivory paper

(This is a very beautiful landscape done by one of my most favorite landscape artist Mr. Anton Gutknecht.....Gutknecht was a world famous landscape artist best known for is oil and acrylic landscapes. This is my attempt to create one of his beautiful landscapes in pen and ink)

Landscape in soft pastels reworked.

This time I am trying to come out of my comfort zone and try soft pastels...I have never done it before and I want to learn....here is a simple landscape using soft pastels. I was not satisfied with the first layer and after spraying fixative some texture did appear. So I did 2 more layers over the previous work fixing in between each layer while I kept the final layer unfixed. Added clouds to it and made it a bit colorful. So here it is...

Landscape study 1 (after 3 layers of soft pastel)
Soft pastel in Canson white pastel paper.