Lesser Golden Flameback

Lesser Golden Flameback
Ref Image Courtesy: Prasad Natarajan

Lesser Golden Flameback, Oil on Canvas, 16"x 24"

David Leffel

Reproduction of David Leffel's self-portrait

Oil on Canvas Board, 12" x 12"

Wrinkled Hornbill

Wrinkled Hornbill, Oil on Canvas, 16"x12"

Inktober 2017

 Inktober 2017 with Prompts

Attempted to tap on the animal world with Indian ink..

Swift

 Remember the moral story about the infamous monkey and two cats?.. 

Borrowed the monkey character from the Disney fame Lion King

Divided

Poison

Honey!.. I don't think our kids are coming back!...

Underwater

Long

wonder how many knew what He-Man used to say when he held the sword!

Sword

Shy

Crooked

Screeech

Do you know there are stories/jokes about the two of us doing rounds!

Gigantic

Run

Shattered

Teeming

Fierce

I am not kidding!.. I saw the fruits right here just a while ago!..

Mysterious

He calls me fat! .. 

Fat

Graceful

Wonder if the once filthy-rich-with-coral -reefs are on the  verge of being rich with just filth!

Filthy

Cloud

Deep

Hey!.. comeback... I wasn't flirting with her.. he is lying..

Furious

Pheromoes ha!

Trail

Juicy

Relax buddy!.. we are only here to enact the poem. She ain't gonna cut it for real!

Blind

uh-oh!.. Is this what you meant by "Let's do Titanic"!

Ship

Stop right there!... let's keep this 'ele riding rat' thing to the mythologies, alright!

Squeak

Climb

was just trying to snuggle!

Fall

United

Alright!.. you found me.. now move on..

Found

Mask

Canopy

Oils on Canvas, Palette knife painting, 12"x12"

Sketches from Bannerghatta National Park

Some sketches from Bannerghatta National Park:

Did the initial drafting on the location with pencil and later used watercolours and Indian Ink for some of the sketches.

Still life

A study of Floris Van Dijck's still life painting in Oils

Oils on Canvas board, 16"x12"

Crimson Sunbird

Crimson Sunbird, Gouache on Chitrapat, 26cm x 35 cm
Reference photo courtesy - Mr. Sumit Sen

Ranganatittu

Ranganatittu Bird Sanctuary is located in Mandya District, Karnataka.

The painting is a scene from the sanctuary with some common spoonbills.

Rangantittu lake, Gouache on Chitrapat

Portraits - Gouache again

Gouache on A3 Artist Paper

Lakshmi - Kerala Mural Style

I had a chance to observe the methods of creating a Kerala Mural Painting, where ten artists from Kerala worked on ten panels with themes of Ramayana. Applied the learning on this small canvas using Acrylics with inputs from the great artists themselves. 

Lakshmi - Acrylics on Canvas - 1' x 1'

Plumeria

Plumeria, Gouache

BKS Iyengar

Here's a sketch of Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, founder of 'Iyengar Yoga' and who is considered as one of the foremost Yoga teachers in the world.

BKS Iyengar, Ink sketch (Pigma Microns) on Artist Paper