National park -Palms

Mumbai National park is 5 minutes drive from my place and I end up painting these sposts again and again. This is one such painting done today

portrait

painting video

www.maayboli.com is website dedicated to Marathi language and culture(footsteps of Mrathi around the world as site tagline says :) ). Maayboli was the first sites to publish Diwali ank on net which started 10 years back. Diwali ank ( special editions of Mgazines published during diwali days)has got special place in hearts of Maharastrians and has tradition of more than 100 years since firdst diwali ank was publsihed.

One of my painting video is published as part of this year's maayboli.com's diwali issue. (its published on youtube)

Here is the video .The video quality and editing is not good and will try to improve next time.

Those who know marathi can read maayboli diwali ank at http://www.maayboli.com/hitguj_diwali_ank/hda_2009/index.html it's must read

Thank you

Want to thank you all the well-wishers who helped me directly or indirectly with my show "Vasaiscapes".
Sharad Tawade ( http://sharadtawade.com/ ) well-known artist from Mumbai inaugurated the show. Many of my co-artists, seniors , family and friends were around to encourage me.
All seven days turn out was good and happened to meet many local artists from the Vasai town. speaking to likes of Mr. Shanker Modgekar (Author of Figure Drawing Made Easy www.graceartbooks.com/figure.html ) and Mr Arun Marathe ( ex- principal Model Art Institute Mumbai) helped me understand the improvement areas.
It was indeed a happy moment when well-known Marathi author Veena Gavhanakar ( Ek hota Carver - biography written by her is inspiration to many) visited and appreciated the paintings.
Local newspapers and http://www.vasai.com/ website covered the exhibition and provided good exposure.
Again Want to thank you all

Invitation

My landscape exhibition “ Vasaiscapes ” is being held at Marathe Art Gallery -Vasai from 25th to 31st October.
These are plein air landscape done in and around beautiful town Vasai and hence the name of the exhibition “Vasaiscapes”.

Vasai is close to Mumbai and blessed with seashore, lakes and greenery. It's also a historical place mainly known for Vasai Fort and some old Churches around.

Vasaiscape is small showcase of my work and appreciate your presence. Those who can’t make it to the venue, please wish me luck. :)

lakeview

These small lakes are typically full of water during rains and start drying up towards summer.

experiment

Call it experiment or determination :) I somehow tend to overdo the washes and then ruin painting. So in this painting I tried to complete most of the painting in one or two washes only. Sky is one single wash, green foliage in backdrop is single wash, tree on left is single wet in wet wash and rest is done in two washes. Hopefully I have retained the freshness way it is required

This is backside of oldage home at Vasai .