Saturday the 1st of February
Posted: January 31, 2014 Filed under: art, artwork, UAE | Tags: agony, artist, Dubai, finished work, graphite, graphite on paper, hurt, images, new one, profession, rent rise, Sharjah, Wolf Leave a commentSigh…a lot has happened here on Waltons Mountain, I mean , in my life since my last post. Well, not a lot but seems like enough to make it seem a lot. Remember the ‘stuff’ I mentioned last time? One of the stuff: due to some unfathomable reason (people say it is because of the much-anticipated Dubai Expo), there has been a rise in apartment rents all over Sharjah. My studio rent which was AED 21000 per annum has become AED 26000 with no warning. So I didn’t renew my contract. I quietly packed my things and shifted the studio back to the room in my parents’ apartment where I had started my career 3 years ago. My family has been very supportive through all of this. Still, I can’t help thinking this is a step down – I really thought things were moving forward…..
I finished the wolf drawing I had started in the beginning of January:
Graphite on smooth bristol, 5″x4″
Till next time!
Friday the 31st of May
Posted: May 31, 2013 Filed under: art, artwork | Tags: finished work, graphite, graphite on paper, new one, studio, tiger, yummm Leave a commentYesterday, a six year old girl I know told me she wanted to be an artist. She was playing with her friends and when she saw me, she stopped to explain – she is the mother and she is leaving her kid at the day care.
And now you are going to your office? I said.
‘No, not office,’ she corrected me, ‘studio. I am an artist.’
I was so overcome with pride and happiness that I just stared at her. She smiled and said, ‘I want to be an artist when I grow up’.
Things like this makes it all worthwhile. All that hard work at the easel, the need for perfection that drives me half crazy, the worry of am I right to be on this road less travelled…don’t get me wrong; I love the unconventional (by Indian standards) life I have chosen for myself. It’s all goood!
Still, when you hear a child saying she wants to be an artist, it is an affirmation – yes Anita, you are on the right path after all.
Yummm…
Graphite on paper