Today went to Deccan College, one of the oldest colleges in Pune with outstanding architecture. Once I reached, I realized that I had forgotten my brushes and pens at home! Luckily found a blue ball point pen in the bag, and decided to do the sketch using that one.
It seemed that the situation turned ok after all 🙂
Deccan College
Pune City overlooking a hill
Today morning sketch with Pune Urban Sketchers. An elaborately carved window in Raste wada, a 200+ years old structure in the heart of Pune.
Just back from a very fulfilling trip to the Koh Tao island in Thailand. Sea-Sun-Sand is the best combo always, but this time it was very special. I did this solo diving trip for a week and did 8 dives, including 2 night dives. (In the past 8 years, I had done 12 dives!)
Some glimpses (and of course, sketches) of Koh Tao coming up
Started my sketches from Mumbai airport itself. I had to spend nearly 8 hours on the airport. But when one has a pen and paper, and an urge to sketch, there’s no place for boredom!
The sketching continued in the plane from Mumbai to Bangkok and then to Koh Samui.
There was a ferry from Koh Samui to Koh Tao. This was done while waiting for the ferry at the pier.
Koh Tao was another magical place where I got many sketching opportunities.
These were done from the restaurant belonging to the diving resort (Big Blue) where I did my diving.
And I did this one of a taxi boat near the shore and gave the soft copy to the boat owner (Faan), who was ecstatic to see it.
Faan’s friend requested me to sketch his boat as well. So I did that too!
Koh Tao had experienced massive floods in the months of Nov-Dec, and though the cleaning has been done, so aftermath is still visible in broken roads and water clogging at places. This is a glimpse of the road where my dorm was located.
The group of islands like Koh Tao, Phi Phi and Samui enjoy great rock formations alongside lush greenery. I tried to capture some of it in this sketch.
After a week of diving in Koh Tao, I returned to Samui via ferry. Sketched this one at the pier when waiting for the ferry.
And ended the sketching adventure with this sketch of Samui beach, just behind the hotel I was staying in.
Did these 2 sketches yesterday in University of Pune.
A broken concrete base of a light pole
Steps between the various descendants of a single Banyan tree.
Did this last weekend in Pune University. Incidentally, I had done the same one at the same spot in 2011. Posting both of them here.
An old door in a Wada in Menavali village, India. I had drawn this live in Menavali. Colored it later. This was sold in my last exhibition 🙂
