Plumbeous redstart

My sketch of a Plumbeous redstart........

sketches series.......17.Black Chinned Humming bird

sketches series......16. Leopard

My earlier sketch of a leopard is here

& this is my second one........

sketches series......11.Zitting Cisticola

A sketch i made of the Zitting Cisticola ( Streaked Fantail Warbler)...... in a ballet pose !!

sketches series.....10. Elegant Trogan

This is a sketch i made of an Elegant Trogan

Since i was going to Bombay

I decided to gift this sketch to Ujju mama,

so we got it framed

so this is how it looked after framing

Short Toed Snake Eagle on canvas

This painting of a Short Toed Snake Eagle took a long time to complete, it was difficult to get the eyes right..........

also in between i enjoyed doing a lot of sketches !!

sketches series.....9. A Leopard resting

Here is my sketch of a Leopard resting

its infact one of my favorites

Black Winged Stilt on canvas

Made this painting a while back,

I call this painting "Foot Steps" !!

sketches series.........7. Yellow Collared Lovebird

This is my illustration of a Yellow Collared Lovebird,

i've only used colour pencils

sketches series.......6.Purple Heron

The best way to liven up the backside of a book shelf is to do a drawing on it !!

Isn't it ??

That's what i did,

with an illustration of a Purple Heron !!

sketches series.......5. Racquet Tailed Drongo

This is a sketch which i made a few years back of the Racquet Tailed Drongo, after seeing this bird in Pangot, Uttaranchal.

sketches series.............4. Goosander

Here is a sketch of a Goosander which i did the other day !

The Falcon goes for the kill

The biggest canvas i made
its sun set time
the bird is hungry
identifies the prey
swoops down at about 300 kms/per hour
feathers are splashed all over.......................

The Woodpecker on canvas........

Went to B'bay for the weekend

good to be with my cousins

atleast for a few days

they did pull a prank on me by getting garlands etc to welcome me at the airport !!

only they can think of such things

ganapathibaba is always there in grandfather's Bandra house/vadi

since time immemorial

every day lots of people come

good food is cooked

more than 30 people will be there for dinner daily

for 10 days !!

my grand uncle wanted a painting from me

i did this Woodpecker for him

The Splashing Osprey

This is my portrayal of one of my favourite birds............. The Osprey. On this painting i really had to work very hard, especially on the feathers

Mischief, the Labrador.........!!

I did this painting for my sister mana

She wanted me to paint her 10 year old Labrador named mischief. In this painting he has got a red cap on to make him look more mischievous !!

I gifted her this painting for raakhi.

The leopard with its kill

I started like this....................


then the canvas became like this after two weeks..................



Finally after a month...................

this how it looked in the end with the Leopard looking into the sunset, his kill; a deer is kept safely up on tree (You have to look clearly to see it) to savour for dinner !!

The dreaming King fisher...........

This is a canvas which i completed recently, i called it the "dreaming King fisher"

Sun Bird

My painting of a Sun bird on canvass

Looking a distance

I completed this drawing last week. It took me about 8 to 10 hrs to complete it 'though. I did it in approx 5 sittings. I named it Looking a distance.