virtual paintout 1/2010 Apr

I am not sure how I missed to upload the sketch I made for Virtual Paintout 's April edition...

This is pen on paper, 26cms*20cms...

This is the link to the location of the sketch - http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=28.373497,-16.761855&panoid=1n02rneEn8Bo2dPTZgQRRg&cbp=13,88.95,,0,1.47&ll=28.373579,-16.762047&spn=0,0.528374&z=12

sketches in London - 4

After I made the first sketch at the Heathrow airport, they announced that our flight would be delayed by an hour... So I made another sketch... However, I had no idea that the wait is going to be much longer... an entire day!.. and spending time in that enclosed space(airport and hotel room) really was getting crazy... and couldn't put pen to paper after this sketch...


When this post gets published, I would be on my way to Delhi for an official trip... and I hope the flight leaves on time... Work will also take me to Ludhiana... I hope to do some sketches during this trip than what I did last time... Also plan to get some nice photographs for inspiration for paintings...

sketches from London - 3

I got some time to sketch at the Heathrow airport while waiting for the flight... I liked the way she had tucked the bag behind her legs!..

sketches from London - 2

Continuing from the last post about my visit to the National Gallery during recent London tr... after the guided tour, there was about an hour before the gallery closed... so I went on to check paintings from the impressionist... There I found a lot of artists sketching from the originals... I found the originals a little intimidating so sketched one of the sketcher :)

sketches from London - 1

I went to London in end Oct... I visited the National Gallery on friday evening with an intent of attending one of the guided tour... I reached earlier and got some time to do a quick sketch of Trafalagar Sqaure... The guided tour was nice.. The guide covered about 8 paintings and its a good insight apart from the obvious visual treat... I went back again next day for a detailed visit of the gallery... more sketches later...

sketch from pondicherry

I went to Pondicherry in July with some friends... I like Pondicherry a lot... the cafes, beachfront, weather and general attitude here is such that one tends to forget the usual stress in life and relax a bit... We stayed at Mango Hill and the experience was nice... this was the view from our room down the pool... interestingly the balcony of the room was such that it extended over the pool... and having been made of wooden planks placed apart, you could see the blue water underneath...

Bangalore edition of 27th Worldwide Sketchcrawl

Mr.Beans coffee house on 100ft Road, Kormangla was the venue for this sketchcrawl... There were four participants myself, Prabha, Murali and his wife... Here are my sketches...

view of the coffee house from outside...
mr.bean invites for a cup of coffee and more...
one of the couches... I generally do more of line drawings and avoid getting into details of shading/depth... but this one was after a little inspired by Murali's sketches...
We also chalked out a rough plan for the next sketchcrawl... It will be at Banerghatta National Park... More details once things get finalised...