My younger son turned 8 this month. The biggest thrill for my son this year was diving headfirst into the world of soccer! I made this small painting (using oil pastel + prismacolor pencils) for his birthday card to encapsulate his most memorable highlight of this year.
This was a quick sketch with minimal details depicting my older son enjoying the swing at our neighborhood park. It took him a little while to learn the proper body motion and physics behind swinging. He needed to be pushed until he was 8. His joy knew no bounds the day he figured out to propel himself.
Painted this on my younger son’s 6th birthday. During the pandemic, he developed a new hobby of collecting stamps.
These are all small size (~ 5.5″x9″) and quick landscape paintings from my sketchbook.
This is a quick portrait study I made for the 7th birthday of my niece (Dristi), the most kind-hearted kid I know.
Trying my hand at digital painting these days. I created these artworks on my Galaxy Note 9 cell phone using the Artrage painting app and the S-pen.
Fishing at Waller Mill park
My 4-year old son (Sanu) painted this family picture after we got back from morning walk one day.
Completed these two sunset paintings for my staircase wall. Both used oil pastels.
A few more paintings of my kids from different times.
Digital portrait painting of my niece (Avani) using Artrage on Galaxy Note 9. Painted this for her 9th birthday.
These are all quick landscape studies done on a watercolor sketchbook.
It is on a 21 x 15 inches Canson 70 lbs (140 g) sketching paper. I used Mungyos on top of Craypas Expressionist oil pastels. Some usage of a 6B pencil for adding details. Most of the blending and detail-adding were done using tortillons.
Painted this autumn street scene based on a picture I took in Germantown, MD last year. Used Mungyo oil pastels over 80 lb sketching paper. Size is 8×10 inches.
Painted this on a ~8×10 inches sand paper using soft pastels.
Painted this lighthouse on a ~6.5×9 inches 140 lb watercolor paper using Mungyo OPs.
Painted this on a 11×14 inches watercolor paper using CrayPas and Mungyo OPs.
I used a picture from the following webpage as reference for the postures of women.
https://karmatsheringphotography.wordpress.com/2015/07/04/asar-ko-ropai/
This is another portrait study of my nephew (Aditya), who lives in Nepal. It is ~9×15 inches in size using Mungyo oil pastels on 140 lb watercolor paper.
Painted these two sea creatures for the kids’ room.
Today’s work.
Last year, I rediscovered some of my old sketches I created with pencils and watercolor during my middle and high school years.
Napoleon’s grand army on its way back from Russia: This sketch was from August 1, 1993 when I was in 8th grade. I sketched this on my notebook with pencil and watercolor. I used a reference picture from a book on USSR history, the details of which I don’t recall.
The following one is my own portrait using graphite pencil and watercolor from July 24, 1995.
My elder brother’s sketch using a blue pen.
Countryside sketch using pencils
Our campsite setup at Chippokes Plantation State Park in May, 2016.
I came to the US in 2007 as a graduate student and this painting portrays my first apartment building in Brookings, South Dakota where I lived for two years. I have good memories living in that apartment as a student. The building was dismantled after a few years and it now lives in this painting and my memory.
The car in the picture has its own story. Two other students in that building abandoned that car after it broke and it sat in that spot for the entire time I lived in that apartment. That’s why the snow piled up around it never got cleared throughout the winter.
My 3-year old is a true banana lover.
Oil pastel portrait of my 3-year old son. I tried to portray his 3 favorite things in this painting: favorite color (blue), favorite fruit, and favorite toy (dump truck). This is on an 8.5×11 inches Canson watercolor paper (140 lb) using Mungyo oil pastels. For drawing the truck on his t-shirt, I used oil paints.
Here are a few paintings portraying sunset over water.
Morning walk with boys at College Landing Park in Williamsburg, VA.
This is based on a picture I took of an old barn in Indiana state while driving on I-64 W toward St. Louis.
I painted these beach play activities of my 2- and 6-year old boys based on several pictures I took of them playing at the Jamestown beach in the summer of 2017.
This is a recreation of Robert Warren’s”Rocky mountain river” painting from his book “Guide to painting water scenes”. The original painting used oils and I used oil pastels.
