Recent content by Balaji

This is a quick, 4" x 5" pen and ink sketch, done nineteen months ago, using a black ink gel pen. I added the colour washes yesterday.

I had sketched this while waiting in line to vote in April last year. And naturally, I forgot that I had sketched this with a chisel marker pen. The problem is that the ink in that pen is not waterproof and it started bleeding when I applied the washes today. Still, once I was aware of the...

Beautifully painted!

Almost all my ink sketches, regardless of size, are in sketchbooks. My smaller (A6, and A5 sizes) colour sketches are all in sketch books. Some of my A4 size sketches are in sketchbooks and some on loose sheets. And all of my A3 size paintings are on loose sheets. My A6 and A5 sketchbooks have...

Joy...Thank you. I used to take longer over my sketches when I was sketching from photo references. Once I started sketching on location (which I did very regularly from 2012 onwards) I speeded up, and most often I would finish a sketch in about 45 minutes to an hour. Although I did sketch much...

I did the ink sketch for this 5" x 4" sketch in Sept 2023 during Chennai Weekend Artists' (the on-location sketching group that I am a member of) 11th anniversary event, and added the watercolour washes yesterday (twenty-seven months later).

Wow! This is superb in every respect.

Joy...actually I love to sketch and paint different subjects. A very skilled artist once advised me to stay with one subject for a considerable length of time if I wished to see quick improvement. But this is an advice that I have not followed. You have seen me post a stream of quick sketches...

Thank you Joy.

This is an approximately 4" x 5" sketch. I did the ink sketch with a black ink gel pen, in early May 2024, in around ten minutes. I added the watercolour washes yesterday, nearly twenty months after doing the ink sketch, once again taking around ten minutes to do it.