MOTHER THERASA

After the first Oil painting, I have just started doing my next one.

This time it is RRV's "Shakunthalai writing a letter"; Simultaneously I started one more but this one a water( poster) on Paper.

Since the Oil painting required time to dry, as an interlude, I was doing the Pencil Sketches.

Afte the earlier one ( Gandhiji), a B&W photo that appeared in the TOI caught my attention.

Thus was Mother Therasa which I drew on Monday evg in about 20Mts.

Pencil on drwing Sheet

26th may2008

Mahathma Gandhi- A pencil sketch

This B&W photograph of Mahathmaji appeared in Ananda Vikatan.

For reasons unexplainable, I had always liked to capture his image

and could not but complete this in one sitting.

It took me appx 20 Mts 0n a Sunday Morning to complete this pencil sketch.

Pencil on Drawing Paper

25th May 2008

SARASVATHI

This is my first attempt of Oil on canvas; and I decided to begin with the Godess of Wisdom- a RRV remake.

I owe my sincere thanks to Shri. Keshav of The HINDU for giving me very useful tips with out which my learning curve would have been much longer . I shared the progress of this work at various stages with him & my mutifaceted friend Crazy Mohan;Both of them encouraged me to reach this stage.
There is an interesting incident.
RRV's original does not have Muukkuththi for Sarasvathi & I also drew it that way only.
After painting the face, I had left the canvas on the table ( Still with wet paint).
I finished my Evg Puja/prayers & came to the table & bent over the picture to have a look at the unfinished painting.
The Kumkumam I was wearing on my forehead just shed on the face of Sarasvathi & got stuck to the nose exactly as a "Sekappuk kallu Muukkuththi".

I had left it as such to remain there...

OIL ON CANVASS

MAY 2008

Bagavan Shri Sathya Sai Baba

This is a quick Pencil/crayon work on paper done by me recently while in Chennai.

Pencil On Paper

28th Apl 2008