boating lake

14th Feb , what better location than this boating lake ---. Happy Valentine's day

aboli flowers

I do not know what these flowers are called in English for that matter in any other language . The are "aboli" common flowers in Konkan, Mharashtra.

(Scientific Name : Crossandra infundibuliformis. Family : Acanthaceae)

Y'day was bit hot and avoided going out anywhere and ended painting this small floral in backyard at my native place.

tarpa player

Tarpa dance which is played to the tune of a wind instrument "Tarpa". This is the dance performed by Warli ( adivasi tribe in Thane district, Maharashtra) during harvest season/diwali. I have tried to use warli painting style painting and design approach to composition.

I really need a critique on this and comments on the areas to improve as I am planning to do a series of some figurative painting (which i am not good at :( ) on Maharashtra folk dances

walk with me

Full emeperial sizew watercolor on paper. Had done half size at location, walkway towards Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at National Park Mumbai. This bigger painting done with same reference.

Adivasi homes

This is adivasi pada in national park-Mumbai . Full emperial plein air watercolor on paper

cycle

Tried to paint this with bold simple strokes. To keep it simple used Cansan Montval paper which I find dificult to go over more than two washes and that one limitation I tried to use it to my advantage. Tried to be quick but this took little more time (almost an hour)than expected.

Wai Ghat

Damle Ghat, Wai /Krishna river.. the very spot made famous by Milind Mulick Sir. I had done same spot few months back on location and this is done from same reference .Full emperial size watercolor.