Recent content by Balaji

I made this quick 5" x 4" ink sketch, with a hard tip Fude brush pen, in June 2024.The colour washes were added this evening (Jan 2026).

This is a 6" x 3" quick pen and ink sketch, made with a flex nib fountain pen.

I used a photograph in a newspaper article as my reference. The photograph was about nature and the figure in it was a small one taking up an insignificant portion of the photograph. So, in a sense, perhaps the photographer captured a serene moment without quite meaning to make the photograph...

Liz, Sanlynn, Joy...Thank you.

This is an approximately 14 cms x 18 cms line and wash sketch. The paper proved to be too thin for what I had in mind. I therefore had to improvise as I went along and salvage something. But, I am proud of not having given up.

Joy...Thank you for the comment, and for the information about the name of the bridge. My wife's niece has an apartment which had a view of the Key Bridge. She was shocked to wake up and find it missing.

This is a quick pen and ink sketch, done with a black ink gel pen in May 2024, and is approximately 5" x 4". I used a photograph by K*F']Prithvi Chandrasekhar posted on Facebook, as my reference. Incidentally, this bridge is not to be confused with the bridge that collapsed in 2024.That one is...

Unlike the works that I am posting now, this was a copy of another's work, which I did to study it. (I have mentioned that on my sketch itself.) Peter Caldwell's book is very inspiring. I did a book review of it for an art forum that I was (and still am) part of. I must have spent around 150 to...

Wayne and Joy...Thank you.

I was looking for another sketch today when I stumbled upon this one. I don't think that I have shared this here. This sketch was probably made in 2008 or 2009 when I was moving to pen and ink from graphite and charcoal. And as you can see from the note on the sketch itself, this is a study...