The snake charmer. Micro-tip pen on A4 paper.

And the wallpaper that I made after editing the illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop. [ Download the wallpaper at the end of this post on aside. ]

1980. Micro-tip pen in A4 paper.

More details on the aside blog here and here.

I was trying out some photo-paint transparent colors.
White A4 sheet of regular paper.

I’d read about this sometime back but did not get the time to post.

Three Indian artists have sold their paintings for a total of $70 Million via an auction on Christie’s. The complete article as reported by DNA can be found here.

I managed to get thumbnails of what the paintings look like - none of the news stories were carrying the pictures and they are as following:

Chintan Upadhyay : Mutant

Ashim : Fake Error

Harsha : Melting Wit

It does get better and better for Indian Art and Indian artists. The above artists are supposed to be “new” on the scene and not in the league of Raza or Hussain but have done exceedingly well in the auction. One of the factors that might contribute to an artist’s paintings’ popularity might be the name of the painting - or it seems from the above.

This is done on A4 size art paper, with ballpoint pen, while traveling in a local train in Bombay!

This is done on an A4 sized normal paper with pencils. It’s my own foot

This is done on 20 cms x 30 cms handmade cotton-waste art paper using pencils.