Wednesday, December 21, 2016

61: Gouache Sketch: Pune University Campus-Lalit Kala Kendra-Centre for Performing Arts

Gouache Sketch on Tinted Paper...
Plein Air...
I enjoy dabbling in all possible mediums of sketching & painting... gouache being one of them... after working in the magic of the translucent watercolours, working in gouache gives you relief... its thick impasto layering can be undaunting as it gives ample scope for rework... gouache works especially well on tinted papers... switching mediums takes away the monotony too!

Monday, December 12, 2016

59: Gouache Sketch: Savitribai Phule Pune University, India - Main building & campus

Another Plein Air Sunday Session with the Urban Sketchers Pune Group... Now this is one Sketcher's Paradise you would want to come back to again & again!

The Main Building Tower...
Tinted Paper 11.5" x 9"
Gouache Painting...
Plein Air... 




University Campus Pathway... there are innumerable such spots here to sketch... a lifetime wouldnt be sufficient to do them all!

Acid Free 120 GSM Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper 
11.5" x 8"
Charcoal Sketch...






Friday, December 9, 2016

58: Pen & Wash Sketch: Shivaji Market, Pune

Shivaji Market, Pune... sketching with the Urban Sketchers Pune Group...

Pen & Wash... 
Plein Air...
8 1/4" x 11 1/2" 
Acid Free 120 GMS Medium Surface Hot-Press paper...
Continuing with my experimentation with rendering of clear glass over tinted glass...
As you do one sketch, another concept comes to mind... will try that in the next one.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

57: Pen & Wash Sketch: St. Xavier's Church, Pune, India

St. Xavier's Church, Pune... sketching alongwith the Urban Sketchers Pune group... just loved working on this!

Pen & Ink & Watercolours...
Plein Air...
 Acid Free 120 GSM Hot Press Paper...
8 1/4" x 11.5"


Sunday, November 27, 2016

55: Pen & Wash Sketch: Shivaji Statue, Pune, India

Shivaji Putala, Kothrud, Pune...
Tried a different approach... Two intersecting rectangles... one in normal colours, the other in monochromatic brown & the rest in grey scale... 

Pen & Ink & Watercolour wash...
Plein Air...
120GSM Acid Free Paper ...
8 1/4" x 11 1/2"

Thorat Udyaan, Kothrud, Pune...
Pen & Ink & Colour Pencils on 120GSM Acid Free Paper ...
8 1/4" x 11 1/2"

Sunday, November 20, 2016

54: Pen & Wash & Watercolour Sketches-2nos.: St. Vincent's School, Pune, India- Achromatic

Sketches from St. Vincent's School with the Urban Sketchers Pune ... a very neat campus indeed it is!

Watercolour Sketch...
Plein Air
120GSM Acid Free Paper ...
8 1/4" x 11 1/2"






Pen & Watercolour Wash...
Plein Air...
120GSM Acid Free Paper ...
8 1/4" x 11 1/2"

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

50: Pen & Pastel-wash Sketch: Landscape Sketches-2 nos. :Darpan Art Gallery Premises,Pune, India

@ an Art Gallery campus...

Pen & Ink, Pastel Pencils & Wash on Cartridge Paper...
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"


Pen & Ink, Pastel Pencils & Wash on Cartridge Paper...
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"

49: Pen & Wash Sketch: Mahatma Phule Museum, Pune, India

Mahatma Phule Museum, Pune, India

Pen & Watercolour Wash on Cartridge Paper...
Plein Air... 
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"


48: Pen & Pastel-wash Sketch- Watchman's Cabin

A Watchman's Cabin

Pen, Pastel Pencils & Wash on Cartridge Paper...
Plein Air
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"


47: Pen & Wash Sketches: IndiaArt Gallery Premises

Sit-Outs @ an Art Gallery, Pune, India

Pen & Watercolour Wash on Cartridge Paper...
Plein Air...
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"



Pen & Watercolour Wash on Cartridge Paper...
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"

46: Pen & Wash Sketch: New English School, Tilak Road, Pune, India

The Main School Building... this school building was another architectural delight to sketch alongwith the Urban Sketchers Pune Group...

Pen & Wash on Handmade Paper...
Plein Air...
14" x 10"


45: Pen & Pastel-wash Sketches: Riverside Sketches, Pune, India

Annabhau Patwardhan Samadhi, VrudhheshwarSidhheshwar Ghat, Pune, India
Pen, Pastel Pencils & Wash...
Plein Air...
120 GSM Acid Free Paper...
11 1/2" x 8 1/4"



Vrudhheshwar-Sidhheshwar Ghat  Pune, India
Pen, Pastel Pencils & Wash on 120 GSM Acid Free Paper...
11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

44: Sketches: Fergusson College, Pune, India

Needless to say the architecture of this college is Simply Marvelous!Challenging to sketch & yet exciting!

Fergusson College Amphitheater...
Dry Pastel Pencils on Tinted Paper...
Plein Air... 
9" x 11 1/2"

The Main Building...another marvel of architecture!
Pen & Ink & Watercolour Wash
Plein Air...
120 GSM Acid Free Paper...
8 1/4" x 11 1/2"

The whole college campus is strewn with amazing & quaint cottage-like buildings which are simply a sketchers delight...
Pen & Watercolour Wash...
Plein Air...
120 GSM Acid Free Paper...
11 1/2" x 8 1/4"


43: Sketches: Chaturshringi Temple, Pune, India

After all these years of Painting, joining the Urban Sketchers Group, Pune, India recently was quite something! ... New people, new places, new styles of sketching & painting to look at, exhibitions, the works! Posting here some of the works I managed to do while traversing with this group...

... From the premises of  Chaturshringi Temple, Pune, India... more than the temple, this wonderful statue of a lady caught my fancy to sketch...

Pen & Watercolour Wash on Cartridge Paper...
7 1/4" x 10 1/2"

Pastel Pencils & Wash...
Handmade Paper...
Plein Air...
14" x 10"

... & equally eye-catching is the entrance arch to this temple premises...
... Pastel Pencils & Wash on Handmade Paper










231: Watercolour Landscape Painting: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Plein Air Landscape Painting of a math in Pune, Maharashtra, India... ... another popular location of artists... this math provides a serene...