Recent content by Balaji

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.

:giggle:🙏

Very nicely done!

Thank you Joy.

This is the Sri Kandaleeswarar Koil at Thenneri, built by Sembiyan Mathevi over a 1000 years ago, in memory of her son Uthamar Chozhan. This is now an Archaeological Survey of India monument and no worship takes place there. My wife and I visited this place in 2018 along with a group of heritage...

Thank you Margaret.

Joy, Chaithram...Thank you.

This is an approximately 5" x 4" pen and ink sketch of a young architect couple's house in Goa, India, using a black ink gel pen and a Brustro hard tip brush pen, done over nineteen months ago. I added the watercolour washes yesterday. I took around fifteen minutes to do the ink sketch (I was...