sketches for wde

These were a couple of quick sketches for the wde...

Fort Rampart : wde 31-Oct

For the wde hosted by Mithila, I decided to go ahead with the reference image of fort ramparts... and make these blocks on a 40cms*30cms canvas with different portions of the ref image... this is in acrylics and had fun doing it...

WIP...

finished painting...

wde 15-Sept Cafe at Arles

Tres had hosted the wde and had posted a few images from places that Van Gogh had visited/painted...
By some vague coincidence, earlier that week, I was flipping through a book "Van Gogh - The Complete Paintings" by a publisher named Taschen... It has all the paintings by Van Gogh...
And it was wonderful that some images for that weeks wde were from places linked to him...
I decided to do the Cafe at Arles... its kind of more leaning towards the original since I painted the top half in blue... kind of ignoring the light coming from the street lights(of modern era)...
This is 12.5cms*18cms, acrylic on sketchpaper...

4th Bangalore Sketchcrawl 24-Aug

The 4th Bangalore sketchcrawl was held on 24th Aug... It was the first time that we were a big group... We were me, Anand, Tejal, Shobha, Smriti, Fredric, Vincent, Arun, Preeti, P's cousin and one more guy whose name I have forgotten... We started at the Bull Temple and then moved to Cubbon Park... It was fun as usual and more so since we were a bigger number and more sketches to share...

The dog in the next sketch was a favourite with everyone... He was lazing around for a long time that gave us all ample time to sketch...

lilies wde 04-jul

I made these lilies for the wde of 04-Jul... It was a quick piece and got over in about 10minutes... sizes is approx 10cms*8cms... acrylics on thick drawing paper...

article in Deccan Herald 06-Jul

Deccan Herald published an article on sketchcrawl in Bangalore... 2 of my sketches featured in the article... It was written very nicely by Yamini... she had done the interview during the 2nd Bangalore sketchcrawl... You can read the article here...

I am hopeful that we will have a big group for the next sketchcrawl...

3rd Bangalore Sketchcrawl : 28-Jun

We took a sketchcrawl on 28-Jun... It was four of us - Prashanth Acharya, Tejal Govitrikar, Shalini Nair and me(ofcourse)... We started from the Lifestyle store... Then moved on to Vidhan Soudha after a quick coffee at the Polynation... It was fun sketching at Vidhan Soudha... We were a centre of attraction there... lots of people stopping by to check what was happening... Next stop was Cubbon Park... We moved to Sunnys post couple of more sketches... After a nice lunch, we called it a day... We plan to take the sketchcrawl more frequently... If anyone wants to join us, please drop an email to bangaloresketchcrawl@gmail.com and I will inform you of the next sketchcrawl...
Here are the sketches I made...

My sketches,

























This is a picture of all of us sketching in front of the Vidhan Soudha...

and at Sunnys...

wde 20-Jun

We all will be missing the wde this week since there is some technical error and the website is being pulled off the web... all content is being moved to a new/safer location... All members of Wetcanvas are waiting eagerly for the website to be back in action...

2nd bangalore sketchcrawl 21-Jun

Saturday 21st jun was another day of fun and sketches... and must say colours as well... Imade sure I took my photocolours along to add colours that I missed on the last sketchcrawl... We were 3 guys - myself, Anand Bora and Prashanth Acharya... Harsha joined us but was a silent spectator of the event... We started at the MG road and then moved on to Chitrakala Parishat... the idea to sketch more at Majestic bus-stand was spoiled by rain but I guess we had had enough by then :)...

So here are my sketches for the day...

3 warm-up sketches...
 
 
then is the garbage truck... glad that it was stationed for a while and I could complete the sketch... coloured it much later though...

then we moved to brigade road... first up is a guy at a tailor shop mending some clothes... then some random sketches from the street...
 
 
this guy was waiting for someone outside KFC while we were waiting for Yamini... She reports for the Deccan Herald and wanted to understand what sketchcrawl was all about... lots of questions and hope she got her answers...
   
After this we went to Chitrakala Parishat which is an art school... we had a look at photography exhibition by M N Jayakumar... then it was back to some more sketches...

  
  
 
We moved to Majestic bus-stand but it started raining and so we had to call it a day...

I plan to host the next sketchcrawl in July... if you want to join, please email at bangaloresketchcrawl@gmail.com