NextGen

Any body will love to find his nextgen to have such a pastime.

A thinker !

Sketch by Salil

Face with no name

The artist is my nephew Varad and we call him Manu – aged 14- has drawn this while sitting in our hardware shop on a memo pad. He has range of drawings – both with pencils and water colour. Fights with a father when he is reprimanded for lack of focus on studies.

This picture is out of pure imagination. The quality of observation and memory storage faculty is strong, style fluent and only few lines are spent. Look at the eyes, lips - the strokes deserve appreciation and encouragement.

He will certainly do good in years to come.

Bal Gandhrva

Bal Gandharva

The subject is well renowned marathi stage personality – a male who used to play female roles when women folk could not dare to perform before the audience. Lokmanya Tilak honured Narayanrao Ranhuns when he was young and started performing in classic marathi musical plays.

The pencil drawings by Salil have already been wrote about. It captures mood – especially the smile – exceptionally well. The delicate nose, beautiful eyes, typical Maharashtrian hair style with floral make up and a feminine neck all truly represents artist’s capabilities.

Fort

Mind travels and travels faster than any known and imaginable speed devised either by nature or by human intelligence. It also has power to capture or recapture the images. This time the drawing has some thing reduced some thing like a fort and surrounding village in Rajasthan (India).

Again texture paper would have created better impact, still it communicates.

Salil , such efforts should have continued – better if can find some time as you are now exposed to much larger, diverse and beautiful world.

Photographs, now a days, have become mechanical they show but rarely communicate. The creator can hardly contribute the emphasis which the viewer normally expects other the discipline would have faded away.
Thinker

A pencil drawing by Salil some time around ’96. May be it is drawn with reference to some picture.

A mature man with thinning hair and wrinkles on the forehead, eyes focused on the unfathomed issue, vivid fingers supporting the face – the mood is honestly captured. The shade on the left side of the face is unduly dark.

Still it is an honest work as it communicates loudly what the artist had in mind. This drawing is yet stronger reason why I wish my son to regain the motivation.

Mind Tree

It is a sketch in MS Paint.
I was recovering from illness and was transforming all my son’s paintings into digital form. As a signature for the work I wanted to send something of my own.

I had no worries, no specific subject to dwell upon. It was a free state of mind. I just wanted to look outward – upwards to be precise.

I feel mind has endless thin layers of processors which can think of number of issues simultaneously – when you do not have grip over the process it is called as confusion otherwise it very enjoyable experience. May be my subconscious wanted to seek communication with the unknown on various issues. It was not out of desperation or anxiety –see I was dancing and there was a rhythm also. My son had returned after my hospital discharge and now I feel it was message that I am returning to my normal self.