any many many many corrections and versions later does a website see the light of day. It’s unlike anything else I’ve made. There is only the computer (mostly) and the screen. Things you thought looked alright yesterday don’t look quite the same today – there is always room for making it better and better – there is always more to do. I feel what I used to feel when I began doing print layouts, it’s a puzzle but the base is logic not emotion as much as art. I find websites fun yet they require a clinical approach (compared to illustrations, sculpture, printmaking, music, cooking and writing in my opinion.) Here’s my first live website – there are a few more in the stages before going online. More websites coming up soon! Including a new version of the one you are reading! It’s still got some bugs and missing things but do check out Nafco’s website.
hat an absolute delight to make fun things for people when there are very few limitations! Priya got in touch with me after being recommended by one of my friends. She’s got a tiny daughter and has just moved to Gurgaon from Bangalore with her husband. She wanted to commission artworks on themes and poems and text that she has been thinking about and wanted the artworks to be based around these ideas. At first, I went ahead and did iterations for each idea and while some were approved – others took a while getting there as it soon became clear that while she was open to some ideas from my end, she had thought about some images herself and wanted to work those out. So here we are after couple of iterations and to and fros and some artworks are what I like and some are in the middle and some are what she wanted – but all in all they make a happy bunch!
Here’s my favourite from the bunch and some test colour sketches for it. I am happy making comissioned artworks from time to time as I like the dialogue – the encounter of two or more minds and how that changes what the output is. In a way it’s a good collaboration tool to keep the mind open besides the methods we already use for our work to grow. Next up is a website I just made and sketches from the amazing monsoon drenched GOA! Everyone loves a summer break – especially if it features some of the monsoon!
ullo everyone! Sorry to have not updated over a long few weeks. Busy days. As I move forward I am working on some assignments longer than others. Tight deadlines are always there but I have made it a point to involve some slow moving assignments as well. Things get to reach the quality mark as well as get the time they deserve. Here’s a painting I just finished. Acrylic on canvas, 2ft x1.5. I had a good time making this and as long as we are human, there is plenty of room to get better but we don’t beat ourselves up about that. We learn and we move forward with those points in our minds for the next time. It’s been lying in the studio so long, I am going to miss it.
Here are some process shots of the painting, sorry about the bad photos but they will give you a good idea of the progression.
Figuring out what goes where and how the light falls.
Moving forward adding some more elements and detailing.
Removing some elements and now cleaning up and adding detail where required.
Almost there
There we some details here that were caused by accident and later were incorporated and those are the best parts! I am really excited to paint more stuff next with oils on wood and hope to put that up as we go along. The mind and hands work quite differently when detailing an acrylic/oil painting when compared to detailing a computer drawn illustration. There is a certain finality of a stroke in painting that doesn’t seem like such a big deal when drawing on the computer. And the textures one can get hand painting are part luck and part accidents really! Here’s to many more!
I also made the logo recently for Million Kitchen, a New Delhi based home food discovery and ordering platform. People can essentially sell their top dishes that they have mastered by recreating them for years! Needless to say, an empowering platform for anyone who wants to set up a small business without risking more than a promise of creating quality cooked home food for thousands of people in offices or living away from home craving non oily budget restaurantey repetiveness!
Right now they are on Andriod only but I hope they will be in the App store soon and 
hopefully I can make some food and put it up too!
More logos and more websites and more paintings and more sculptures are in the line up next and I will be back with more goodies soon.
now, now now 