21st sketch crawl

The 21st sketchcrawl was on 10-Jan '09... We went to UB City mall for sketching... Everyone had some commitment for the second half of the day so we only sketched for an hour or so... to add to this, the security guards at the mall found our sketching the buildings a thread and we were asked not to sketch the architecutre... here are a couple of sketches I made...

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...