Saturday the 1st of February

Posted: January 31, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: art, artwork, UAE | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Sigh…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:

wolf

Graphite on smooth bristol, 5″x4″

Till next time!

Friday the 31st of May

Posted: May 31, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: art, artwork | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Yesterday, 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.

Image

Yummm…

Graphite on paper

Lunch time

Posted: July 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

A new one; it’s not finished yet – bit more tweaking remains to be done. I had drawn a squirrel for an art fair in March and it was promptly sold. Since then, I have had many requests for a squirrel drawing. This is the same guy only smaller with a different background. Image size – 6.2″ x 5.5″.