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...