Recent content by Balaji

Thank you Joy. I enjoy drawing human figures. Not detailed drawings, but gestural sketches. And whenever I can I try and practise doing them, both as ink sketches, and in watercolour.

This was my fourth sketch made on location about ten days ago at Chennai Weekend Artists event # 514 at Marundeeswarar Temple. My sketch is A4 size and is an ink and wash sketch. Most of my fellow sketchers opted to sketch the temple and within the temple precincts. But having done that a few...

Thank you Donna. Sketching, especially the quick sketching, where I do not worry too much about the quality of the sketching, definitely helps. I am not sure whether painting helps.

Thank you for the comment, as well as the good wishes. I am hopeful.

Joy, Margaret...Thank you.

Thank you Joy.

These are quick watercolour sketches done directly with brush on paper (without preliminary pencil sketches) on 300 gsm Chitrapat watercolour paper. I spent about 15 to 20 minutes on each. The objective of the exercise was to build up confidence in using a brush instead of a pencil or pen. This...

This is a quick 5" x 4" pen and ink sketch of a hill-top monastery, done using a black ink gel pen about eighteen months ago. I added the colour washes a couple of days ago.

Sanlynn, Joy...Thank you.

This is a quick 5" x 4" sketch with a black ink gel pen, done in May 2024, to which I have, very quickly, added some watercolour washes.

Thank you Joy. Although this sketch is about the building, I tried to sketch the figures in the foreground faithfully so that each person is actually identifiable.