raring to go...

I do not remember exactly but the reference photo was from one of the wde on wetcanvas-dot-com... I ventured out to paint it finally today morning... Got some inspiration to paint with these words of Van Gogh -
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint, and that voice would be silenced.
This is acrylic on canvasboard, size of canvasboard is 20cms x 15cms... but I wanted a square composition and so painted part of the canvas and final painting is just 15cms x 15cms...
This will be the first time that I will put my painting on sale :)
It will be available at ChitraSanthe on 31st Jan
This is how the entire canvasboard looks...









And this is the portion painted...

sold

sketches

This is a rough sketch of a chair at my place... I quite like it and will try to make this into a painting soon...

buses and bus stand...

"buses and bus stands" was the theme for this weeks urbansketching... the first one is at the murugeshpalaya bus stop on old airport road... the women in the foreground were an interesting subject in terms of the colours, drape of their sari... good that their bus came late and I got to sketch them down... auto rickshaws are an integral part of the bus stands here... waiting to snatch as prospective commuters from the bmtc(Bangalore Metro Transport Corporation)!
I like the second better... this is of the front portion of a vayu vajra which is the a/c volvo bus service between bangalore city and the BIAL(Banguluru International Airport Limited) airport... they are a very convinient means of transport as the BIAL is very far from the city...
these volvo buses also run within the city are by far the best public transport I have found in India...

colours to sketchcrawl sketches

As I mentioned earlier, I tried to put some colours to the sketch I made for the 25th sketchcrawl... The result on this one was not that good as the paper in my moleskine is too absorbent and it took a while to control the colour...
Next time onwards, I will be a little more efficient with colouring(I hope)...