Recent content by Balaji

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.

Thank you Anne. One of these days I plan to add colour to this sketch.

Thank you Joy. But this is actually not a complicated subject. But for the fact that you can see something through the structure in front, the shapes in the scene are large and clearly defined.

Thank you Joy.

Thank you Joy. It was Stephen Travers, an Australian pen and ink artist who, through his demo videos on Youtube, introduced me to this style of sketching - quickly and with fewer lines, and Vanidas Mangathil, a Bengaluru based artist who, through his demo videos, also on Youtube, who helped me...

Thank you Joy. Temple towers lend themselves to this type of composition and treatment. I hope you had a good time...I was wondering why there were no comments from you for a while.

Joy, Anne,,,Thank you.

Wonderful! I like them all, but your hollyhocks are my favourite.