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This is a quick pen and ink sketch, approximately 5" x 7", on notebook paper, using a 0.8 GEO College pigment liner.

This is a 2015 pen and ink sketch of two ceramic cats and a crystal bell based on a photograph by TeAnne.

Chennai Streetscape Over the last few weeks I have been very eager to sketch on location but the summer heat has already been too much for me. Chennai's summer peaks in May/June and therefore it is going to be quite a while before I can go out and sketch. I therefore took to Google Street View...

This is a time-pass 4.5" x 6" pen and ink sketch, using an inexpensive back ink gel pen, and based on a reference photo of a person whose identity I do not know. I had saved the image some time ago, since I found the flowing white beard a challenging subject, and wanted to try it some day. That...

This is a quick pen and ink sketch in my 4" x 5" sketchbook, using a black chisel marker, and an ink gel pen, and made while waiting in the queue to vote in the Indian Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

This is an A4 sized pen and ink sketch that I made in my sketchbook aound 2011 or so. My wife and I were on a sketching holiday at that time and I was able to take my time over this one. And, although I made some other sketches on location during that trip, this one was sketched using a...

This is a line and wash sketch on 270 gsm, A4 size Chitrapat watercolour paper (rough). I have used, with his permission, a photograph by my friend Mohan Krishnan as my reference. In my sketch I have tried to stay faithful to the main subject of the photograph, but I have also taken liberties...

This is a quick 4" x 5" thumbnail pen and ink sketch, based on a photograph taken by a friend at an Urban Sketchers Chennai's sketchmeet at Nochikuppam, Chennai. I did not attend this meet but I have my friend's permission to use his photo. I plan to sketch this scene in colour.

This is an A4 size pen and ink sketch on 270 gsm Chitrapat watercolour paper (matt). In case you are wondering why watercolour paper for a pen and ink sketch...I started this with the intention of doing a loose line and wash sketch. But somewhere along the way my ink sketching instincts took...

This is an A4 size ink and watercolour sketch on 270 gsm Chitrapat watercolour paper (matt). Of late I have been trying out a very inexpensive gel pen and so far I am very pleased with the results for casual sketching. This time my main consideration was to find out whether the ink gel was...

This is a 12 cm x 16 cm casual pen and ink sketch with my very inexpensive Unomax Geltron gel pen. This is my second sketch with the pen and I find that I am now able to get some tone variations with it, which I could not in my first sketch.

This is a 16 cms x 12 cms time-pass pen and ink sketch. My wife bought some inexpensive ball point pens called Unomax Geltron to keep around our home. They cost Rs. 10/- each (which would mean that you get eight for a US Dollar). I decided to take one for a test drive. The pen does write very...

It is nearly two months since I touched a paintbrush. This, unfortunately, has been a constant theme ever since I took up art as a serious hobby in 2002. This is a watercolour sketch on A4 size 270 gsm Chitrapat watercolour paper (matt). I used the picture on the cover of a book that I'm...

Poonga means park in Tamil, the local language in Tamilnadu, India. I made this pen and ink sketch, on location at the Semmozhi Poonga in 2014, using a Hero 578 fountain pen with a fude nib. I had got that pen only a few months earlier and it takes some time to get used to sketching effectively...

This is a watercolour painting that I did around six years ago, on A3 size 270 gsm Chitrapat paper, based on a demo by Gary Tucker.

This is an interior view of the oldest surviving building in the Sri Ramakrishna Math campus at Mylapore, Chennai. It is refered to as the "Old Temple" since a larger and newer one was built and is in use since 2000. I sketched this on location, in 2013, with pen and ink in an A4 size...

Ambikas is an iconic condiments shop, now with branches in and around Chennai. Although the family has been in the appalam business since 1915, they started their first shop in 1948 and called it Ambika Appalam Depot. (Appalams are somewhat like tortillas and tacos, but thinner) That parent shop...

This is a pen and ink sketch, made on location about fifteen years ago, in an A4 size sketchbook. It is not often that I get to make a leisurely sketch, on location, but also from the comfort of a hotel room. I've had that luck on a few occasions and this was one of them. My wife and I were on...

This is a pen and ink portrait sketch that I made about ten years ago. If I recall correctly this must have been on A5 size (5" x 8") paper, and that I sketched it in response to a monthly or weekly sketching challenge in an online art forum. The reference photograph was by Signchick.

This is an A4 size watercolour painting on 270 gsm Chitrapat watercolour paper (matt) and is inspired by a painting of Burnt Island Lighthouse in Maine by Tony Van Hasselt.