Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall.I enjoyed working on this one. Took me about two hours, give or take. I could have kept refining it, getting it closer to her trademark benign smile, but… I did not want to necessarily ‘finish’…
NitinApprox. 14×14 inchesAcrylics on Canvas I am really happy with this portrait of Nitin. I had limited reference images of Nitin to choose from. The final chosen reference image was low quality and low res. So, to be able to…
I am throwing the rule book out the window! Sometimes it is good to go with instinct and pick up colours and brushes at random. Without others or my inner voice, for that matter, telling me to do things a…
Circumstances change. We change. I changed..Revisiting muscle memory but in a new way. Adding fresh synapses to that old web… “When the force of circumstances causes you, in some sense, to lose your equilibrium, return to yourself with all speed,…
Mr. R KrishnamurthiApprox. 14×14 inchesAcrylics on board papered with brown paper..Chithra aunty looked at the portrait on my studio wall and said, ‘Hi Babu’. Much like I say ‘Hi, nana/papa when I see Papa’s picture at my parents’ home. That…
I had dropped the ball on Procreate yet again. And then with the latest update, I lost my go-to brushes, which took an age to find, and I still can’t find some. That said, I am just taking it slow.…
ChicaApprox. 12×14 inchesAcrylics on Canvas.This is Sonya’s beautiful Chica. The black with the tufts of white was so delicious to paint. As happens with older doggies and older humans, I might add, white flecks start to appear in stray places.…
Mr Jaisim Krishna Rao and Mrs Geeta JaisimApprox. 14×17 inchesAcrylics on Canvas.When my friend Ashwini (@ashjaisim) reached out to me to paint a combined portrait of both her parents as a gift for their 56th wedding anniversary, it was a…
Air Cmde Ramesh Vishwanath Phadke and Dr Pushapjeet Sidhu Phadke were married on 13th March 1970 in Ambala. My parents’ love story is like a masala Bollywood film. They met on an air base, got together despite parental pressure, and…
My heart beats… His stopped. Suddenly and without warning. A sudden and catastrophic cardiac arrest, they said. All efforts to resuscitate failed. And yet mine beats. He lives through me. I know that, I feel that, I believe that. I…
