Jamal Ahmed

It certainly is wonderful to have a friend who is a photographer and who gives you easy access to his collection. This is based on a photograph taken by Anil Advani for his SOFOBOMO project. Jamal Ahmed, also a friend, is very well known and with 41 solo exhibitions, a prolific Bangladeshi Artist.  You can...

Frida Kahlo

I've been a fan of Frida Kahlo for a while but Diego Riviera's work appeals to me more - for the subject matter and style. Frida Kahlo 8" X 10" Mixed Media on Illustration board

Copy a Master – more Van Gogh

"Head of a Peasant Woman in a White Cap" (1884) / "The Zouave", Arles, 1888 / "Portrait of Patience Escalier", Arles, 1888 / "Portrait of Armand Roulin" Arles 1888 Worked on these 4 starting last evening. I love Van Gogh's work and it felt like a shame to not participate properly in the current MOM...

Annual Portrait Swap at WetCanvas!

I forgot to add two more commitments for the month of November. Six and Seven. One was accepting an invitation for an exhibition, my first. And a second was helping a friend key in and sort out some text for her brochure. The first casualty in this list of 7 activities has been 50,000 words...

Variety is the spice of life!

Finally, I've decided to accept that in art I like to do different things all at the same time. I have not been able to stick with one medium though I tried hard. Instead of wasting energy I am going to allow myself to go with the flow. Though I continue to stay focussed on...

Loosening up

September 16,2007 : The paint was wet on the first painting and I wasn't ready to go back and finish the Ashulia Lady and so I decided to experiment some more. There was this beautiful, strong B&W photograph,taken by Anil, of a common friend. The thinking was that a monochrome painting would be different from...

Ashulia man 2

Originally posted : August 20, 2007 : Another man from Ashulia taken that same afternoon. He too is eating paan 😀 but obviously not as much of a regular as the other gentleman as it doesn't show. I think soon I'll find that I'm doing a series on people eating paan in Bangladesh! 😀 “Ashulia...

Drinking tea – WIP

Update: June 3, 2007 : Decided that I needed to convert some WIP's to finished work. This has been lying on the table for over a week now. Got quite a few pointers from Wetcanvas and worked on sharpening the details and making corrections with Derwent Pastel Pencils. When I reached the stage where I...

Project Andrew Wyeth

I'm participating in the next MOM too and they are looking at Andrew Wyeth's work on WetCanvas for the months of March and April. I havent managed to locate as many references as I would've liked. There are a couple of portrait photographs of the artist available online and he makes a very interesting subject...