Random Works

 

HORN OK PLEASE 

This is an assignment on Tradition. So I picked a more contemporary tradition in India which is truck art.

Using all the commons elements that are painted on trucks with such loving care by their owners, this composition was concocted. My first attempt with bright (almost bordering garish) colours. 

 Texture exchange between a fan-tail pigeon and a porcupine. 

Amazing fun this little assignment was!

My attempt at painting with poster paints. 

Practise

Still haven't figured out how to smooth out the kinks in my drawing, but ill get there! With more Practise... too bad Procrastination is my best mate.

Chisel

The blows you receive are but God's way of shaping you. 

Opportunity

The road away from normal is difficult but its worth the effort .

Once the opportunity presents itself you will forever regret not taking it 

when you had the chance. 

wood

Oh wood...

the silent agony you bear,

Your beauty holds my stare,

With branches brittle, 

and leaves so supple,

that whisper God's name

and shade your twisted frame,

that man did thoughtlessly fell

but your roots deep beneath still dwell. 

Vulnerable

No matter how vulnerable you may feel at times.
Times when you feel the earth crumbling beneath your feet,
and there are no rocks who will hold it all together,
know that you will always have something...
something that will  protect you from letting the dreaded rain
wash away the rest of the earth that holds firm under you.
So hold on tight and let the moment pass
and the strength you have always possessed will return,
soon enough.

Carpe Diem

An illustration of the phrase "Carpe Diem" which means to seize the day.

"shake dreams from your hair my pretty child..." - The Doors

study of hair (pen)

Uplifted

I have tried to show the cleansing of one's soul through this illustration. 

If you ask me I don't know what it means, but on some level I know that it can occur due to an experience that brings forth strong emotions that completely transforms you mentally.... making you stronger. 

To quote a friend who unknowingly has given the perfect explanation to my sketch:

"that transformation from being scared...to accepting... and gathering courage... and finally, LETTING IT GO....that's the journey that makes everything worth gold"

- Mayank Bahl

Pain

(pen on paper)

Cyclops Caves

This is a place that appeared in a dream I had a few weeks ago and has been haunting me ever since. There was really nothing special just some strange rock or ice formations with still waters so blue, I have never seen in real life. What struck me most was that is was completely devoid of life but had a life of its own. That is why space and all its heavenly bodies have always fascinated me... there is so much power and movement in these stars that pulsate and make their presence known to us, that one cannot imagine them as inanimate objects.

Stress Kills

Life and Death

Death walks along his river of souls, sickle at the ready;

Reaping the blades of life that creep onto his territory.

He sneaked a glance at Life, who glowed in divine splendor

"Such power hath Life!" mused Death...

Harsh was he with some and with others so tender.

In all eternity their eyes had seldom met,

But when they did...

An unspoken promise and an unseen balance was kept.

As Life his gaze did lower...

Knew his seeds that blossomed, one day shall Death take over,

And these seeds will their wondrous Life forget,

Only to remember him when 'tis their time to meet Death...

All up in smoke

Jesus The Man

A Simple Dream

If you can't make out right away, it's a man getting his picture taken, where he has to look through a hole cut out of cardboard...

Everyone has a simple dream like the jester in the picture who wants to be king.

Mine is to be remembered for my art.

Nothing Out Of the Ordinary

A Safe Haven

Forlorn

I like being alone sometimes...

My thoughts become more clear

It's like waking up from a dream...

but as always if I'm awake for too long I yearn to go back to my dreaming.

What are you looking at?!