My Tap Root – Air Cmde R V Phadke (retd)
Grief is a strange and alien experience for me. It is not that I have not lost loved ones before. I have, but losing my father on the 14th of October…
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Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall in Procreate
Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall.I enjoyed working on this one. Took me about two hours, give or take. I could have kept refining it, getting it closer to her trademark…
Nitin
NitinApprox. 14×14 inchesAcrylics on Canvas I am really happy with this portrait of Nitin. I had limited reference images of Nitin to choose from. The final chosen reference image was…
Just let me be! -Procreate
I am throwing the rule book out the window! Sometimes it is good to go with instinct and pick up colours and brushes at random. Without others or my inner…
Smiling Sadhu in Procreate
Circumstances change. We change. I changed..Revisiting muscle memory but in a new way. Adding fresh synapses to that old web… “When the force of circumstances causes you, in some sense,…
Mr. R Krishnamurthi
Mr. R KrishnamurthiApprox. 14×14 inchesAcrylics on board papered with brown paper..Chithra aunty looked at the portrait on my studio wall and said, ‘Hi Babu’. Much like I say ‘Hi, nana/papa…
Moody Sadhu in Procreate
I had dropped the ball on Procreate yet again. And then with the latest update, I lost my go-to brushes, which took an age to find, and I still can’t…
Chica
ChicaApprox. 12×14 inchesAcrylics on Canvas.This is Sonya’s beautiful Chica. The black with the tufts of white was so delicious to paint. As happens with older doggies and older humans, I…
Jaisim Krishna Rao and Mrs Geeta Jaisim
Mr Jaisim Krishna Rao and Mrs Geeta JaisimApprox. 14×17 inchesAcrylics on Canvas.When my friend Ashwini (@ashjaisim) reached out to me to paint a combined portrait of both her parents as…
A Forever Love Story
Air Cmde Ramesh Vishwanath Phadke and Dr Pushapjeet Sidhu Phadke were married on 13th March 1970 in Ambala. My parents’ love story is like a masala Bollywood film. They met…
My heart beats…
My heart beats… His stopped. Suddenly and without warning. A sudden and catastrophic cardiac arrest, they said. All efforts to resuscitate failed. And yet mine beats. He lives through me.…
Nico
Nico 10×12 inches approx. Acrylics on canvas . A dog is the perfect subject for a portrait. Even if I have never met the little one, there is love that…