152: Pen & Ink Sketch: Vridhheshwar Mandir, Pune

Vridhheshwar Mandir, Pune...

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-free Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

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119: Collage Sketch: Sagar Arcade, Goodluck Chowk, Deccan Gymkhana, Pune

Sagar Arcade, Goodluck Chowk, Deccan Gymkhana, Pune

Collage Sketch... an experiment with the Urban Sketchers Pune... a unique experience with random-shaped craft-paper pieces pasted onto the drawing paper before starting the sketch... Black n blue pieces were pasted randomly without any particular composition in mind. Then sketched over with black & white gel pens alternatively on the black & white surfaces created. Coloured patches were added on to break the monotony & add interest.

Plein Air... 

11 1/4" x 8 1/2" 

120GSM Acid Free Medium Surface Heavy Weight Paper

110: Pen & Ink Sketch: College of Engineering, Pune

The College of Engineering main building... what a marvelous structure... with all intricate elements of architecture... 

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

92: Pen & Watercolour Wash Sketch: Raste Wada Courtyard, Pune, India

The inner courtyard of Raste Wada, Pune

Another fine example of the wadas of Pune, now becoming almost extinct with urbanization, modernisation etc. ... sketching done alongwith the Urban Sketchers, Pune

Plein Air...

Pen & Watercolour Wash...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

91: Pen & Pencil Sketch: Raste Wada Watch-Tower, Pune, India

Another view of Raste Wada, Pune... Its Watch-tower.

Another fine example of the wadas of Pune, now becoming almost extinct with urbanization, modernisation etc. ... sketching done alongwith the Urban Sketchers, Pune

Plein Air...

Pen & Pencils... HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B, 10B

1 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

90: Pen & Wash Sketch: Raste Wada Facade, Pune, India

The facade of Raste Wada, Pune

Another fine example of the wadas of Pune, now becoming almost extinct with urbanization, modernisation etc. ... sketching done alongwith the Urban Sketchers, Pune

Plein Air...

Pen & Wash...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

88: Pen & Ink Sketch: Anandashram Facade-2, Pune, India

Inside view of Anandashram, on the busy Appa Balwant Chowk of Pune... once home to Novelist Hari Narayan Apte who lived there from year 1888 to 1919 .... a fine example of the wadas of Pune, now becoming almost extinct with urbanization, modernisation etc. ... sketching done alongwith the Urban Sketchers, Pune

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

87: Pen & Ink Sketch: Anandashram Facade-1, Pune, India

Anandashram, on the busy Appa Balwant Chowk of Pune... once home to Novelist Hari Narayan Apte who lived there from year 1888 to 1919 .... a fine example of the wadas of Pune, now becoming almost extinct with urbanization, modernisation etc. ... sketching done alongwith the Urban Sketchers, Pune

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

81: Pen & Ink & Colour Pencils Sketch: Jaykar Bungalow, Pune

A different presentation of an earlier sketch...

The Jaykar Bungalow, Pune...a beautiful & serene residence built in 1940 for the Late Honourable Mukundrao Ramrao Jaykar, the first Vice-Chancellor of Pune, in the precincts of which is housed the National Film Archives of India (NFAI), Pune

A magnificent piece of Architecture... 

Partly Pen & Ink & Partly Colour Pencils...

120 GSM Acid-Free Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

11 1/2 " x 8 1/4" 

77: Pen & Ink Sketch: Nageshwar Mandir courtyard, Somwar Peth, Pune, India

Nageshwar Mandir premises.... a 700 year old structure, built during the reign of Peshwes of Pune.. a magnificent stone & wooden structure, reconstructed recently with a lot of undoing & redoing efforts to bring it back to its original glory. 

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

75: Pen & Ink: Park Bench

Scouting around for a sketcheable scene around Law College premises during one of our Urban Sketchers Pune session, this queer little bench could not have missed anybody's eye.. Some prankster had filled up the "C" from "Clover" engraved in the stone but I depicted it in its original form. 

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

73: Pen & Watercolour Wash: From Culvert to Shed

Colour added to the earlier Pen & Ink sketch after extracting a photocopy of the line-work before rendering one with Pen & Ink & the other with Watercolours.. 

This was the  unlikely sight in a corner of an otherwise well-planned college premise... 

A path leading to a culvert, culvert leading to a quaint little brick-structure with sloping tin-roof... complete with a tree-shadow fallen over it.. 

An artist's delight nevertheless.

Plein Air...

Pen & Watercolour Wash...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

72: Pen & Ink Sketch: From Culvert to Shed

An unlikely sight in a corner of an otherwise well-planned college premise... 

A path leading to a culvert, culvert leading to a quaint little brick-structure with sloping tin-roof... complete with a tree-shadow fallen over it.. 

An artist's delight nevertheless.

Plein Air...

Pen & Ink...

11 1/2" x 8 1/4"

120 GSM Acid-Fee Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

71: Pen & Wash Sketch: Fergusson College Main Building Rearside, Pune, India

From the campus of Fergusson College, Pune, with its great colonial monuments of Architecture ...

Sometimes it is hard not to render the sketches with colour although the black & white version looks good too.. My friends & colleagues prevail upon me to let my black & white sketches be... but the colourist in me takes over nonetheless... & so as per their advice, have started taking photocopies of the b/w sketch in its initial line-work form itself so as to have fun with colour on it giving me the best of both worlds & yet keep it plein air... at least in its initial part. So that it now transpires into a study in comparison... of B/W & Colour... & therefore posting the B/W version yet again... just below this image... all done with the Urban Sketchers Pune.

Pen & Watercolour Wash...

11 1/2 " x 8 1/4" 

120 GSM Acid-Free Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

67: Pen & Ink Sketch: Fergusson College Main building Rearside, Pune, India

From the campus of Fergusson College, Pune, where one gets to see great colonial monuments of Architecture ...

Pen & Ink...

Plein Air...

11 1/2 " x 8 1/4" 

120 GSM Acid-Free Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

60: Pen & Wash Sketch: Savitribai Phule Pune University,India - Main building rearside

The Rear of the University building...

Pen & Watercolour Wash...

Plein Air...

11 1/2 " x 8 1/4" 120 GSM Acid-Free Medium Surface Heavyweight Paper...

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.

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"

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"

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"