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)

Knife Painting

I try to keep changing my tools/medium to keep my sketching/painting process interesting. These were painted using just a pallette knife and acrylic on paper.

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.

IF: Green

I love the green of rain washed sycamore barks. This painting is one among a series on barks. This is a 24X36 acrylic on canvas. Please click on the label "Bark series" below to see other related works.

Shore Temple, Mamallapuram, near Chennai(Madras)

8 X 10
Acrylic on Canvas

Please check out my earlier treatment of the same subject and let me know which one you prefer and why. Thank you.

Annul Rings II

Mixed media
June 2006
Link to Annual Rings I

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

Bark III

24 X 36
Acrylic on Canvas
2004

Annual Rings I

18 X 24
Acrylic on canvas
2004


Post Script:
A fellow blogger posts a request for fundraising for a child suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (a type of blood cancer).

Laburnum in full bloom

7 X 9.7 inches
Mixed media
2002

First Portrait

11X14
Acrylic on Hardboard
2001

This is my first attempt at painting portraits (5 years ago). Also, this is my first acrylic painting. Since then I have been using acrylic for most of my works.

IF: Alphabets

I used the scripts of three Indian languages (those that I can speak and write) besides English for this work. The one that has the largest font is Tamil, my mother tongue (the one that my family speaks). The next sized font is written in Kannada. This language is spoken in Karnataka where I spent a major part of my life in India. The third one is Hindi - spoken by a large segment of the Indian population.
The scripts are used to just convey the names of the respective languages in which the words are written.

Inspire me Thursday: Abstract

I used water colour pencils and India ink to paint this abstract work inspired by rain washed sycamore trees.

First fall painting

This is the first painting I painted in the first year of my being in the United States (4 years ago). Also, this is my first "big" painting. I had never before attempted anything on 24X36 inches canvas. I found the process very daunting and the end result not very satisfying. I look forward to hearing suggestions for improvement from you. Thank you.

Bark I

Inspired by the texture and beauty of the barks of trees, I made a series of paintings. This is the first one made a couple of years ago.