CARE – Dog Paintings
If you are a regular reader then you know that I love dogs. I don’t have any pets because I don’t think it is fair to keep them unless you have enough space for them to run and exercise. And…
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Mogu
Mogu. Acrylics on canvas (set of three). 8×10 inches. A friend was going to be out of town for a few days and I offered to baby- dog – sit for her. So every afternoon my daughter and I would…
Nishi
Custom commissions of portraits are challenging to say the least. It’s terrifying before I actually start the work. Then I slowly get into the flow of it and it gets less terrifying. This latest painting of Nishi and her dad,…
Rumor has it…
Rumor has it.. Truely the big little one has my heart. She is absolutely adorable. I call her a mini horse with a puppy’s heart 🙂 I recently had the pleasure of painting her. And I love how the portrait…
The hard knocks of life
This dog reminded me of an old man. Someone who has been knocked down by life more times than is fair. Someone who has more salt than pepper in his hair but still sees colour in the world around him.…
Trompe l’oeil
Trompe-l’œil (French for “deceive the eye”, is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. I stumbled across artists who use this technique to perfection and after trying…
Funk With No Junk – On LBB – Sep 2018
Thank you Anushka for taking the time to speak to me about my work. Happy to have been featured in in the Little Black Book – Kolkata edition on 24th sep 2018.
Cooper
This cute thing is Cooper. This painting was commissioned by a young man for his girlfriend. The request was for me to paint a picture of this ‘7 year old puppy’ she has 🙂 So here it is. Cooper –…
Caesar
This commission was difficult to do for myriad reasons. I could not refuse as a very dear friend asked me to paint it for another dear friend of hers. (You can see another commision done for the same friend here.)…
Champa
This is Champa. She was my friend Swati Seth’s daughter. Rescued from Champa Galli in Delhi. She lived with Swati for 18 months before getting picked up by a leopard. But in those 18 months, she meant everything to Swati.…