This second portrait is of a Naga Sadhu. In Hinduism, a sadhu is an ascetic who has devoted his life to attain the ultimate goal in life, moksha or liberation. Hindus believe in multiple paths leading to God and the life that these sadhus follow converge towards that ultimate aim.
Naga Sadhus or the Digambars (sky-clad) are a sub-group of these sadhus who prefer to remain naked and smear themselves with ash and mud.
The portrait here is of one such ascetic.
I have not posted any of my drawings for quite some time now. I would like to present to you a series of fast pen and pencil portraits I did over the last couple of weeks.
As the first of the series, here is the dancer.
Every Thursday evening after everybody is gone, about 10 people meet at room G208 in 20, Kingsway Building at the LSE. Their purpose – secret. Their deeds – hidden. The room – small and the blinds- covered.
What do they do there? What is the secret?
These are the torch bearers of an ancient and continuing sect, one whose legacy goes back to time immemorial, the life form appreciators or in simple words – the artists.
These people meet for the weekly Life Drawing sessions conducted by the LSE Student Union Visual Art Society. The society arranges for the models and other supplies for the sessions and people – LSE as well as non-LSE – join in for 2 hours of sketching extravaganza.
I recently went to one such session and the result is this sketch of the female body. Though we did about 5 sketch from various different perspectives, this is the one which I liked the most.
So, here it is, the nameless sketch.
Female Form
and coming to the title of the post, “The secret sessions”. Well, there is actually nothing secret about the entire business. If you want to attend one such session and want more information or check out the timings, then visit http://www.lse-arts.com/. The website is well maintained and has all the necessary information.
So, see you there.
It has been a while since I posted anything related to art. So, here I am today with my latest creation, “Expectation”. Pregnancy is probably the most beautiful time in a woman’s life. If you reflect for a second, they bring a new person into this World. A person like you and me, of flesh and bone, having feelings and senses, how wonderful is all of that. Let us celebrate the miracle of birth with this charcoal on Fine Grain – Heavyweight paper drawing…
Expectation
I want to present two portraits of me drawn by two exceptionally talented Greek artists from the LSE visual arts society. They are exactly what I look like in real life, and I want to thank the artists for making me seem so special.
So, here they are.
I hope the Taliban is not looking for new recruits.
(Everybody reading this: Don’t take any offense. Everything is written in good humor. I don’t want Taliban/ Al-Qaeda hate mails or threats please. )
The final painting in this series of eight is this pencil sketch I like to call ‘T(h)ree’. I started with a Pencil sketch and I am finishing off with another one.
I hope you have enjoyed the small presentation over the last two months. I sure enjoyed making them.
This next painting here actually comes from my own imagination. There probably is no real place like this on Earth. I have taken elements from various landscape photographs and combined them to create this render, which I like to call ‘Arizona Water’. (Don’t ask why that name; I have no idea myself)
This has been done using watercolor on paper with limited use of watercolor pencils to make the edges of the rocks sharper.
Hope you will enjoy it.
Next in line to the earlier paintings (‘Bulb’,'Hover’,'colored beach houses of Cape town’,'Women Power’ and ‘Flower Vase’) is the ‘Green Rock’.
It is actually a not-so-accurate reproduction of a famous Monet painting, the name of which I have unfortunately forgotten. Due to the greenness of the rock, I have named it ‘Green Rock’ (I am not very good at creating captions).
Hope you will like it.
Today, I present the very amateurish ‘Flower Vase’. The realism has been taken out of the painting because of an urge inside me to go back to the earlier days, when paint-what-you-see was not the norm for me. Here, instead of strictly following the original object in excruciating detail, I have filled in the colors according to my whims an desires.
This painting is also watercolor on paper with minor shading done using color pencil.
The earlier paintings in this series were ‘Bulb’,'Hover’,'colored beach houses of Cape town’ and ‘Women Power’.
I hope you like my amateurish work here.
I have been showcasing here the eight different paintings that I have recently completed. The first one in this series was the bulb, the second one was ‘Hover’ and the third one was ‘Colored beach houses of Cape town’.
Continuing further, I present today,’Women Power’.
The idea behind this creation is actually not mine. I found the painting in an online community and decided to render it using watercolor and pencil. Unfortunately, due to not making a note of the website address then, I am now unable to locate the original source and name the actual artist here.
Anyways, thanks to the original artist and I hope you like my render here.
