I get a lot of requests regularly for practical information on what is needed to get started in watercolour painting. Let me start off by...

A little while back, I wrote about "travel-art-journaling" as a great opportunity to inculcate an art habit. When the setting is relaxed...

I decided to write a little poem for myself on my birthday this year. It's been a particularly challenging year for most of us, and for...

Many students tell me that they can "copy" an illustration or drawing well, but fail to make a painting from their own imaginations....

So, why do we need an underpainting? The secret of layering colours to produce colour depth in a painting lies in the underpainting. Also...

For some reason, most every write-up on Benaras (or Kashi as I prefer to call her – sounds so much more romantic!) starts with what dear...

Did you know, that the "be" here, is a verb? I guess I always knew it, but it just never registered. But when it did, it changed the...

I was about to call this blog “Monsoon Mania”, but it sounded too much like the name of a seasonal Mango ice-cream, so popular all over...

Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi “People come from all over the world to die here”….sounds ominous, doesn’t it? But not really, if one is...

I call it #20minwatercolorworkout. Meaning, painting about twenty minutes every day, anything you want, is like working out your art...

People keep asking me what it is about Benaras that fascinates me so. (Maybe because of the number of times I’ve gone there and blogged...

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."                                   ...

The entrance hallway into my house has a beautiful 2′ high, brass Krishna Murti, on an antique wood-and-brass trunk. For the longest...

Was the most fun workshop!! Planning to work out many more such short and fun workshops... will keep you posted here on my website, in...