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Durga Puja 2009 - Highlights

2009-10-14T14:48:00.011+05:30

Busy bee...

2009-01-09T09:32:00.002+05:30

Cards on the table

2009-01-04T12:53:00.001+05:30

Don't mess with me...

2008-12-30T20:02:00.002+05:30

In depth...

2008-12-26T17:56:00.002+05:30

Pink blossoms

2008-12-26T08:57:00.001+05:30

Enjoying a hot cup...

2008-12-24T16:42:00.002+05:30

Divine light.

2008-12-24T08:37:00.002+05:30

Fresh!

2008-12-21T22:34:00.001+05:30

Serenity

2008-12-18T17:03:00.001+05:30

Prayer wheel

2008-12-17T19:01:00.000+05:30

Rumtek Monastery

2008-12-12T00:10:00.000+05:30

All lit up...!!!

2008-11-05T14:17:00.004+05:30

Happy Diwali!!!

2008-10-29T23:18:00.005+05:30

The showering inferno...

...and the afterglow.

A celebration of Lights!

2008-10-27T23:41:00.002+05:30

Solitude

2008-10-18T16:11:00.002+05:30

Paying respects...

2008-10-15T23:44:00.004+05:30

Riding into the sunset

2008-10-13T19:02:00.003+05:30

Twilight...

2008-10-10T17:33:00.000+05:30

The king of beasts...???!!!

2008-10-08T14:20:00.003+05:30

Molten gold...

2008-10-05T16:12:00.000+05:30

Mumbai under a cloud...

2008-09-26T10:37:00.003+05:30

Splashing about

2008-09-25T10:12:00.001+05:30

Reflections...

2008-09-23T17:11:00.003+05:30

...up and down

...left and right

Looking towards a greener future

2008-06-17T20:06:00.000+05:30

Beetle Leaf

2008-03-13T21:10:00.005+05:30

Trying to filter Sunlight!?

2008-03-01T14:36:00.001+05:30

Footprints ...

2008-02-26T20:13:00.002+05:30

A Heavenly View!

2008-02-14T17:29:00.002+05:30

What are they are Talking about???

2008-01-18T21:33:00.000+05:30

She sells ... on the sea Shore!

2008-01-15T18:37:00.000+05:30

Time to Retire

2008-01-13T11:18:00.000+05:30

Surf n the Net

2008-01-09T10:31:00.000+05:30

Sailing into the Sunset

2008-01-07T18:10:00.000+05:30

Smile OK Please

2007-10-03T18:25:00.001+05:30

Still life

2007-03-30T16:00:00.000+05:30

Oil pastel on paper
Possibly my last post from Bangalore for the time being. This one is for ... I made this over two days, working on low light to get the shadows right. And because i wanted this to have a very "oil painting" feel, i did not smooth out the shading, and did not give as much attention to the fine detailing as i usually do.

On a light-er note!

2007-03-28T16:05:00.000+05:30

Buddha: The enlightened One

2007-03-27T11:13:00.000+05:30

Kite feeding - II

2007-03-16T14:00:00.000+05:30

Mother kite feeding babies

2007-03-15T18:19:00.000+05:30

Moonlight sonata

2007-03-06T16:08:00.000+05:30

Bangalore Sunset

2007-03-05T17:58:00.000+05:30

Going...

Going...

Gone!!!

Life and death

2007-03-02T15:35:00.000+05:30

Natural grace/Mechanical symmetry

2007-03-01T18:51:00.000+05:30

Saraswati

2007-02-20T07:40:00.000+05:30

Oil pastel/crayon on paper
One of my experiments with the mixed media of oil pastels and pencil crayons. This is a pastiche. I took the basic idea from a picture that appeared in the Sunday supplement of a newspaper quite sometime back. I don't know who the original artist was, but my heartiest regards to him/her for a beautiful piece of work.

Way to go!!!

2007-02-14T15:37:00.000+05:30

Deepavali

2006-11-16T19:58:00.000+05:30

Light up...

2006-11-10T19:56:00.000+05:30

Brighter than sunflower?

2006-11-08T17:05:00.000+05:30

Bubbling with enthusiasm

2006-10-31T04:00:00.000+05:30

Durga Puja - Bangalore

2006-10-25T14:15:00.000+05:30

Maa Durga

Dhunuchi competition

Dhunuchi naach

Dhaaki

Arati

Aasche bochor aabar hobey - Shubho Bijoya!

Gateway to paradise

2006-07-14T00:19:00.000+05:30

Dial

2006-07-13T01:23:00.000+05:30

The passion

2006-07-12T01:19:00.000+05:30

The only painting I made in the Reuters office. Made on a particularly ‘jobless’ night shift, the painting is, as the title suggests, inspired by the The Passion of Christ. Was just doodling on the computer, and ended up making this. That is why it looks (and is) like a very rough sketch.

Pensive

2006-07-11T01:08:00.000+05:30

Floral offering

2006-07-07T23:02:00.000+05:30

Golden brew

2006-07-06T00:54:00.000+05:30

Water lillies

2006-07-03T19:03:00.000+05:30

A Bengali wedding ceremony

2006-06-28T23:53:00.000+05:30

Exchanging garlands...

...and vows

Offering to the fire

A new dawn

2006-06-28T00:18:00.000+05:30

Rumman da man

2006-05-03T22:52:00.000+05:30

Destitute

2006-04-04T23:03:00.000+05:30

Watercolour on paper
My first 'brush' with watercolour! Because I did not know how to handle the medium well, I kept the painting dichromatic. Lesser colours to play with, the lesser chances of making a mistake somewhere, was the logic. The subject is a part of a much larger photograph that appeared in The Statesman quite some time back, along with an article on the plight of street children of Kolkata, the “City of Joy”.

Cross

2006-03-30T16:26:00.000+05:30

Computer art
One of my first experiments with computer art. I made this with PaintShop Pro 5 on my home computer, over a couple of days. Because I didn’t know the software too well, couldn’t use the more advanced features. Just stuck to painting on a single layer canvas, taking my chance with getting it right on the first try.

Book, candle by mirror

2006-03-16T16:27:00.000+05:30

Colour pencil on paper
One of the few paintings I have made since coming to Bangalore, and, of all art forms, it had to be a still life. Talk about art imitating life!!! The painting is of a book (Tagore’s Gitabitaan, to be exact!) and a candle placed in front of a full-length mirror. I made this in two nights (albeit working intermittently). Had to work nights in order to keep the sunlight from reflecting on the book and mirror, and reducing the sharpness of the shadows thrown by the candle. The other challenge I had to face while making this was actually painting by the candle’s light, standing some 6-7 feet from it.

Woman and Light

2006-03-15T16:29:00.000+05:30

Oil pastel on paper.
This is perhaps the only painting i have made at one sitting (and within an hour too!). I initially intended it to be a full colour painting, but realized too late that i had just three colours left in the paint box, the ones used in this. This is also special in being one of my first paintings where i did not use the pencil at all, not even for outlines.

Arcs and Beams

2006-03-14T17:15:00.000+05:30

Earth and Sky: Through a bus window

2006-03-09T20:21:00.000+05:30

Sprinkled cloud cover

2006-03-08T16:25:00.000+05:30

Gandhi

2006-03-06T18:55:00.000+05:30

Silhouettes

2006-03-06T18:27:00.000+05:30

Sunrays through balustrade

2006-03-06T17:20:00.000+05:30

Onlookers

2006-03-06T17:16:00.000+05:30

Sun on sea

2006-03-06T16:55:00.000+05:30

Sunrise over Pondicherry

2006-03-06T16:51:00.000+05:30

Painting with clouds

2006-03-03T19:45:00.000+05:30

Dawn breaks over Bangalore

2006-03-03T19:34:00.000+05:30

Birds At Dawn

2006-03-03T18:43:00.000+05:30