Cityscapes, are paintings and sketches from my travels around the world. You will find sketches that I did inside the plane on my way to New York, paintings that I did while sitting on the snow at -7 degrees in the Swiss Alps, to paintings that I did on the streets of Sevilla in the peak of summer at 40 degrees!

Food sketching (still life). Sugar free donuts for your visual appetite. Colours are appetising! These paintings are with watercolours and color pencils. There are many more, as I love painting still life of food and household products. Best part is these donuts will not add up to your calories :-)!

Indian folk art based on mythology. I love to read the Upanishads, Vedas, Gita, and old texts based on Indian mythology and paint based on that. My focus is mostly on women characters like Sita, Droupadi, Radha, Durga and Devis in different forms. These are all original depictions based on my own interpretation from the ancient texts that I love to read.

Landscapes are best drawn en plein air. I often paint outdoors when the weather is good. But if I am travelling for work or with family, then I mostly take photographs and paint them at home. I also like to paint landscapes in big canvases, specially the Swiss Alps!

I paint realistic portraits as well as from imagination - based on a concept specially on full moon nights (joking!). I love expressive faces, and during my college days, I had sketched all my classmates with pencil, each in 30 minutes. Portrait sketching is quite challenging, as just a miniscule change can alter the face! Lately, I like to paint people with expressions, or use a human face against a backdrop which expresses a concept. Once again, my paintings feature mostly women.

Pencil sketches can give you the freedom that no other medium can, plus it’s practical and easy to carry just a wooden pencil and a few papers in your bag wherever you go. If you can draw correctly, your paintings shall automatically have more strength. Hence, to keep drawing, to keep practising freehand drawing is a must. Once you master the concepts of composition, light and shade, and perspective, sketches can turn into beautiful paintings, or become standalone pieces of art. Especially when I am on vacations, I carry with me a horizontal sketchpad and a set of waterproof black pens.

General theme paintings. I am quite temperamental and prefer to be versatile, rather than narrow down my paintings into one or two topics only. I can paint oranges on a Monday, a portrait on a Tuesday, a landscape on a Wednesday, an abstract on a Thursday, a mixed media canvas with acrylics on a Friday, and urbansketch on weekends. I believe if you are creative, you can experiment in a broad range. Experiment, experience and express has always been my motto in art. One needs patience and diligence to grow with art. Once you give this, and practice diligently with full passion, you will yourself see the results. Remarks from your peers and friends will confirm this as well, when they see your progress in art.