Unfinished business

This month has been very busy with a flu bug, birthday, visiting friends and now I'm leaving town for ten days.   All that makes this join my stock pile of wip's.  I wasn’t planning on working on this sketch for much more.  Just a few darks to define jawline better and of course a few...

You can’t hurry love

And just in case you're wondering what the scribble has to do with the song - nothing!  It's what I found myself humming lately when I thought it's taking me too long to get back to painting.  The last year and half was meant to be spent acquiring skills that I knew I was lacking...

Taking shape

I'm looking forward to 2011.   One of the things that I missed since we moved from Dhaka are the art groups that I was a part of.   Having said that on not finding one here, I did little to start one of my own.  Recently when I heard of a group starting up with plans...

Portrait Party over at Flickr

Julia Kay's hosted a Portrait Party over at Flickr and my painting has come to a halt : )  I have done a few portrait swaps in the past, for Rama Hughes blog, The Portrait Party , the annual Portrait swap at WetCanvas and more recently the ones organized by Karin Jurick.  But in terms...

Sketching at the Galle Fort

Sketching is so much more fun when you have company.   I'd got so rusty even with drawing as paint is a much more forgiving medium and you can keep going over something till you fix it. Sketching is even tougher having to capture a scene quickly or you have to tackle perspective!!!  I'm shaky...

I’m Looking Through You

I'm looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don't look different, but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same. self portrait - oil sketch. KMP's are skill building exercises advised by Kevin Macpherson in his book Fill Your Oil Paintings with...

An oil sketch

I haven't painted for a few days but hope to make it up this week. This sketch is from about 10 days back when I was taking a break from the KMP's. There are many errors that I can see but no attempt has been made to fix them coz then it would no longer...

Opinions

I subscribe to About.com's Painting newsletter run by Marion Boddy-Evans.  Today it led me to a post on What Hurtful Things Have People Said When Commenting on a Painting? I read a few and discovered that while I didn’t have the same experiences I had shared some of the same feelings. When I started out...

Extracting a line drawing using Photoshop

Preparing for a short trip away from home, I decided to carry a sketchbook. While selecting the pens I would carry, I tried a couple out on the cover. Very quick. Very loose. and for me Very nice (It must be the Egon Schiele kind of feel that it gave me : ) I had...

Opinion : Illustration Friday

In my opinion there's a bit of George Bush, Alfred E Newman and traces of a beard in this sketch.  All not wanted and unintentional. _________________________________________________________________ Check out many more interpretations on