Red Tail Hawk (Immature)

The friendly folks at the Shaker Lakes Nature Center helped me identify this beautiful bird.

Fall and Spring...................Frozen

It was raining on and off through the night and then the temperature dropped. The next morning I found every single branch encased in ice! I found this tree which had spring leaves emerging from the same branch that still had a brown fall leaf hanging on. It looked like three seasons preserved in one shot until the sun peaked out and the sky turned blue...Now the quartet was complete. I just needed some Vivaldi as I got immersed in this scene.

Macro Photography

Orchids

Butterfly

Sunset in LalBagh, Bangalore, India

11X16 inches
Oil on Hardboard
1999

I am submitting this painting for Illustration Friday. Dusk seems to draw a blanket over the lake as the egrets, cranes, dabchicks, and cormorants - among other inhabitants of lalbagh - prepare to call it a day and rest.

Two Palms

11X18 inches
Oil on Hardboard
1999

Thusharagiri, Wayanad, Kerala

Girls playing in Avaneeswaram (near Kollam/Quilon, Kerala)

Kerala House Boat

I had the privilege of meeting the artist-writer Mr. Manohar Devadoss. More about the great man and his wife here and here. Gifted this small black and white painting (acrylic on canvas)

Happy New Year

More Autumn Pictures

IF: Visitors (also my first en plein air painting)

This is the first painting I completed outdoors. It is a 12X18 inches acrylic on canvas painted at the Tree House in the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Cleveland.
I feel at peace when I am here. Apart from nature lovers, frequent visitors who come to this tree house are, downy woodpeckers, robins, cedar waxwings, cardinals and a host of other beautiful birds.

IF: Twist (Biggest Painting so far)

This is a 48 X 60 inches acrylic on canvas that I completed recently. I am submitting this for Illustration Friday (topic of the week is Twist). I saw a beautiful village well in Tamil Nadu, India and was fascinated by the twists and turns I could incorporate in the painting were I to base the work on the well.


Also, I wrote a poem on this well:

The Village Well with its concentric steps
Just enough to put one foot down
Jutting out inches from the brick wall
that is green -
and red as the dragonfly
that darts about the banyan
that already has a prop root or two
As it grows on the moss-green wall
of the village well.

You will see that the poem is just about the immediate visual effect that the well had on me. There is more to the painting than meets the eye - I look forward to seeing your interpretation.

I shall also write about the experience of working on this 4 feet by 5 feet canvas shortly.

Village Well

The Village Well with its concentric steps
Just enough to put one foot down
Jutting out inches from the brick wall
that is green -
and red as the dragonfly
that darts about the banyan
that already has a prop root or two
As it grows on the moss-green wall
of the village well.

Near Papanasam Dam

2006

Azhagar Kovil near Madurai

Photograph taken on the way to Azhagar Kovil from Madurai.
August 2006

Large Spider

Entomologists/wildlife enthusiasts out there, could you please help me identify this beautiful spider? I found her in south Tamilnadu, India.

Fullersburg Park, Oak Brook

Illustration Friday: Jungle

This painting is a work in progress. I started this last year. Do not know when I shall finish it.

30 X 48 inches
Acrylic on Canvas