From sketchbook

These are all small size (~ 5.5″x9″) and quick landscape paintings from my sketchbook.

Urbana, Maryland
Lake Fewa, Pokhara, Nepal
Line and wash technique practice
Logan, Utah
45-minute painting challenge

Digital Painting

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

Dream garden: Painted this using Artrage on Galaxy Note 9.

Painted this using Artrage on Galaxy Note 9. This is based on a reference picture I took on highway 89 while I was driving from Salt lake city to Logan one late afternoon in 2017.

Landscape studies from sketchbook

These are all quick landscape studies done on a watercolor sketchbook.

Summer meadow at sunset
Alpine lake
A farm field in Dodhara, Kanchanpur using colored pencils and pastels.
Hello Moon: painted this on an International Observe the Moon Night day
Jamestown beach event park during fall
River house at Chippokes Plantation Park: Line and Wash technique
A small waterfall study using oil pastels

A Nepali village landscape

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.

A typical Nepali village house

 

An autumn path scene

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.

An autumn street scene (8×10 inches oil pastels)

First Apartment

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 first apartment in Brookings, SD. Oil pastels and colored pencils on a 140 lb watercolor paper (8×10 inches)

Sunset over water

Here are a few paintings portraying sunset over water.

Autumn sunset (Soft pastels on 6×8 inches watercolor paper)

Sunset at Indian Field Creek, Williamsburg, VA (using oil pastels and colored pencils, 6×9 inches)

Oil pastels on Canson watercolor paper (approx. 6×9 inches)

 

An old barn house

This is based on a picture I took of an old barn in Indiana state while driving on I-64 W toward St. Louis.

A barn house in Indiana (Soft pastels on a 8×10 inches sanded paper)

Playing on the beach

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.

Sanu playing at the Jamestown beach. Painted on a 8×10 inches mix-media paper using CrayPas OPs. Also used a black colored pencil (Prismacolor) to sharpen the edges. Painting completed on June 30, 2018.

 

Rey playing at the College Creek beach in Williamsburg. Painted on a 8×10 inches mix-media paper using Prismacolor pencils and CrayPas Oil pastels. Painting finished on November 20, 2017.

Sanu playing at the College Creek beach in Williamsburg. Painted on a ~8×10 inches mix-media paper using Prismacolor pencils and Watercolors. Painting finished on November 29, 2017.

Rocky Mountain River

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.

Rocky mountain river painted on a 11×14 inches Canson watercolor paper using oil pastels. Finished on March 29, 2018.