March 2007
Upside down
by ujwala
Quoted: I did my first upside down drawing following the instructions in Betty Edwards book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It was a line drawing by Picasso named Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. I liked what it looked like and that encouraged me t...
What kind of an artist are you?
by ujwala
Quoted: Found the link to this great article on Wired on The Accidental Artist's blog. David Pink's has written a very interesting article about David Galenson's research on creativity and how he sorts people into two types essentially - early geniuses...
February 2007
Street Vendors
by ujwala
Quoted: We were stuck in a traffic jam in Dhaka a while ago and we have plenty of those :D. I looked around and took a few photographs of cart pullers, rickshaws and street vendors. This cigarette vendor was on the pavement a few cars away waiting for ...
Abhimanue - Take 2
by ujwala
Quoted: This is my second attempt at drawing Abhimanue.   He was the first person I met in college.  Abhinmanue had an open door policy and however trivial our queries may have been he gave his time unstintingly and answered them patiently
Colourful Rickshaws
by ujwala
Quoted: I grew up in Kolkata, a city with hand pulled Rickshaws.  I must've sat in one just once and my friend pulled me along up and down the road to her house for a lark!  At that point there were a few other cities with hand pulled rickshaws
Self Portrait in Ink
by ujwala
Quoted: This is the 3rd piece that I made today.  I'm just thrilled with that and not so much with this drawing!   I used a different pen today (Lamy Joy) and regretted it a bit as the ink in this one seems to collect in a small pool at times!&n
Sandeep Jigdum
by ujwala
Quoted: Made this one of Sandeep's at the art group meet this morning. We hadnt met up in 5 weeks and I was really happy to catch up and restart these meetings once more. I had made a sketch of Vishal yesterday evening which hadnt turned out so well an...
Try, try, try again!
by ujwala
Quoted: There was something about the angle in which this photograph was taken and being too close to the subject with a wideangle lens.  Vishal's nose was out of proportion to the rest of his face.  I found this angle of him looking down very d
January 2007
Stuck on College of Art
by ujwala
Quoted: A quick sketch of the HOD at the Delhi College of Art. Mr Abhimanue Govindan
Too far to fix
by ujwala
Quoted: The learning here was never to start something you want to make extra special, with a lot of care under pressure or with a new medium.  I hope to make another one replace this one with in the near future.  This one is now too far for me
Long absence
by ujwala
Quoted: At the College of art we had lots of artists visiting. She was one whose work I was familiar with and she very kindly allowed me to take a photograph. Pen and Ink to try and keep my hand in. The shape of the face has been penned in incorrectly ...
December 2006
Mother and Child
by ujwala
Quoted: Inspite of the problem areas there is something about this sketch that appeals to me more than all the others i did over the holidays.   I think the main reason is that it brings back the moment I was trying to capture.  This holiday was
Watercolor Travel Kit & a Self Portrait
by ujwala
Quoted: A few months back I read Nina Johansson's post on A messy little watercolor project and became interested in the idea of making my art travel kit better. I was carrying a bunch of pens, pencils and pentel brush pens with black and a brown washe...
T’is the season to be jolly….
by ujwala
Quoted: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Made with Art Rage.
Trying to create transparency
by ujwala
Quoted: still lifeOriginally uploaded by HughPee.I try every once in a while to draw something other than a face. Here's tonights attempt, the brush holder on my desk. I have been shying away from transparent objects and I decided to try it out this ti...
I should be painting
by ujwala
Quoted:  This has been dated incorrectly. Started this morning. Ever since I've stopped working I find it difficult to keep a track of the date. I usually know which day of the week it is but the date eludes me. I thought today was the 10th and dated
Trying my hand at Pop Art
by ujwala
Quoted: Lifehacker had a post on Make your own Andy Warhol pop art pointing to Melissa Clifton's tutorial on Andy-Warhol-Up Your Photographs. I'm waiting for some paint to dry on a portrait that I'm working on and decided to have some fun. And fun I di...
November 2006
My first swap
by ujwala
Quoted: A project that I am participating in involves exchanging paintings of portraits made from Photo references. Read more in A Portrait Swap.Here's a crop of the beautiful painting of me that'll be here soon.And here is the one I'll be mailing out ...
Black Box Invention - I eat money
by ujwala
Quoted: After hearing what my husband had to say and few other comments that I received, I realised that I had not expressed my thoughts adequately in the painting above. Not that I am any better with words but I would like to give it a try.Background:...
Toothy Smile
by ujwala
Quoted: One more for the November Challenges thread at the Painters Alley, WetCanvas. This is one of the subforums under Digital Art and is for images painted using the techniques of a traditional painter without filters, effects, cloning, paint overs,...
Man with a cap
by ujwala
Quoted: I'm having a problem with the portrait that I'm painting for a Portrait Swap. Went to WetCanvas! to look around and found the November Challenges thread in Painters Alley (digital forum).  Here's my attempt at drawing one of the references pr
WIPs galore
by ujwala
Quoted: Work in progress. Story of my life :p and Modigliani in his Studio and these are just the recent ones.
