Students Sketching at Dakshina Chitra

[Balaji]

This is a quick, 14 cms x 10 cms pen and ink sketch, of a couple of students sketching on location at Dakshina Chitra, a living cultural and heritage museum in Chennai. I had gone there some days ago with my first year college students as part of their induction programme.

 

[Joy]

Your sketches are so enjoyable. Approximately how long did this take? If I may be so inquisitive to ask, do you have many that you are not pleased with and don't post? The quality of your work is always so good.

 

[Balaji]

Your sketches are so enjoyable. Approximately how long did this take? If I may be so inquisitive to ask, do you have many that you are not pleased with and don't post? The quality of your work is always so good.

Thank you Joy

I am not sure how long this one took. I was seated at the entrance of one of these units, right in front of the door, sketching this scene. And I was interrupted several times because there were several busloads of school children, and college students wanting to go past me to enter the door that I was inadvertently blocking. Dakshina Chitra is on a 10 acre (4 hectare) site and I moved around making five sketches over a two and a half hour stay there. And this included taking several group photos and random photos too. My guess is that it probably took around twenty minutes.

I have retained all the sketches and paintings that I have made since 2002, when I took to sketching as one of my prime hobbies. I try and date every drawing, regardless of whether I am happy with with it, or not, so that I can track my progress. And I usually share all of them. On Creative Spark I have shared only very few of the sketches and paintings that I did before joining CS in Sept 2021.