Carnatic Love!!!

Water colour Painting on Cartridge paper :)

Traditional Paintings

These works are inspired by the Tanjore and Mysore style of traditional paintings. 

Materials used - Handmade paper, Acrylic paints, Chalk powder for the emboss work, Gold paint and stones. 

Mahalakshmi 

Mahalakshmi

Panchamukha Ganapathi

Hanuman 

 

Hanuman

Krishna and Kamadhenu

Lord Shiva and Parvathi

Sri Rama

Lord Vishnu, Sridevi and Bhudevi 

Lord Vishnu, Sridevi and Bhudevi

 Krishna and Kamadhenu

 

 Sri Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, Bharata and Shatrughna

 Sri Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, Bharata and Shatrughna

Vithoba Krishna

Handmade Banglesss! :)

colours, colours, colours!!
knots, knots and knots!

Handmade Greeting cards

 I love using different types of materials to give some texture variation for the cards or bookmarks. Like broken Glass (I blunt the edges before I use them), dry leaves, dry flowers, tree bark peel offs, metal wires, copper sheet pieces, various coloured and textured waste papers, Buttons, etc :)
I've been collecting them over the years even though my mom keeps throwing them away when ever she gets a chance to clean my cupboard :P

Greeting card II -outside

Inside

Handmade Bookmarks!

I love making bookmarks though I don't read books :P

Big pocket, Fishie, Lazy Brahmin!

Jumki

Shankara

Indian Ink on Handmade paper

Brown

They are all Imaginary Portraits

Tribo I -Photoshop CS2

Tribo II - Photoshop CS2

Egyptian - Acrylic paints on Cartridge paper

Ink Scribles

 All Imaginary stuff!! :)  most of them are done while in some coffee shops, while traveling in bus, etc.

This one is a random sketch and later I stained it with some coffee decoction :)

Eyes!

Piranha

Fishes 

Twirl City

Togetherness

 Landscape

scriblieees

Landscape

Portrait studies

My first digital painting! :)
Photoshop CS2, default brushes.Here is the photo reference  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dilipm/2258197575/in/set-72157603889983544/  - Photography by Dilip Muralidharan.

Another Portrait study. Photoshop CS2. I enjoy working on the wrinkles and also warmer skin tones as they reflect such beautiful colours for example the orange bounce from the wall on old lady's face and some blues from the sky.
Reference - Eric Lafforgue's Photograph.

Portrait study. Photoshop CS2.
My nephew Vrithav :)