Party Invite Illustration

 Invite for a one year old boy's birthday party

 prints

stickers and birthday party souvenirs

The birthday cake, inspired by the card

Red Elephant (work in progress)

Here is what I have been upto : what a year it has been, though my blog does not reflect this, it surely has been one of the most happiest, incredible and all consuming year for me and at the end of it all I can feel is the intense sense of gratitude. Looking forward to 2016!

Swaach Bharat

 

here are some more posters done for Swaach Bharat Project

Professor para project

                                                                          

My grandfathers house in Cuttack at professor para (meaning 'Professor's neighborhood', just across the canal from Ravenshaw collage, where my grandfather spent most of his career teaching)

 

My grandma aged 18

 

My grand father aged 33

 The Kitchen

My grandmother cooking for her very large family, The food was usually vegetarian, simple and piping hot, since my grandfather was a vegetarian and could not stand spice, quite opposite to my grandmother who would eat her rice with fiery chilies and loved meat. My grandfather was always served at the table, but my grandmother always preferred the floor.

The Backyard

 This is the backyard of the house, Still figuring out the style and treatment for a very rough idea of a book based on the life of my grandparents

Swaach bharat Project

I am working on a series of poster for Reckitt Benckiser (the Dettol guys), as a part of their CSR project  I am working with the good folks at XSEED Education who are coming up with a Hygiene curriculum for School from Grade 1- Grade 5. Here are two posters for Grade 1, more to come soon ...

The Tripathis

Introducing my Grandparents Dr. Kunja Bhihari Tripathy, a professor of linguistics and his wife, my grandmother- Sureka Tripathy. Fifteen years his junior and a high school dropout.

UNESCO

Illustration for UNESCO, As the countdown begins for the UN summit in New York in September, governments are now discussing a new set of universal goals that UN member states will use to frame their development agendas and policies until 2030.

The 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will succeed the previous Millennium Development Goals, which had been agreed upon in 2000 and are set to expire this year.

Johar Club

Illustration done for the diamond jubilee celebration of Johar Club, Munsiyari (Uttrakahand). lots of fun drawing details of the temples, vegetation and the Panchchuli Peaks.

Munsyari also falls on the ancient salt route from Tibet and is at the entrance of the Johar Valley, which extends along the path of the Goriganga River to its source at the Milam Glacier. This year marks the 60th year sports meet.

Park Fun

clean your room

do it now!!

Rain Game

 Illustrations done for Xseed Education , this is a story of Noni and Nikki having fun in Rain :-)

Travel and Leisure

A spread for the magazine T&L(Travel and Leisure)
10 best new-year fireworks around the world...where are you headed for NYE celebration?

Book Guide -Rupa

Front Cover

Back Cover

Cover done for Rupa title  'Great Books for Children'

They draw and cook

One more for theydrawandcook, this time 'gajar ka halwa'- yes yes I am eagerly waiting for Delhi winters and piping hot halwa :-)

Illustration for Mobile Creches

I am doing a series of illustration for the NGO 'Mobile Creches'  it's mission is to ensure Early Child Care and Development of young children of economically deprived groups at urban construction sites and slums.

final prints

final prints

New Work

Working with a fixed color pallet this time, this is really helpful when your final artwork to the printers. Even though these are not flat colour application (i.e they are not digitally done) I have hand painted the tree trunk, leaves etc(actually everything except the yellow of the birds is pigment colour) and there is a lot of variation to the green and grey anyways, but having a pallet helps to stick to the family of colours and the printer has a better idea of the colors that you are looking for, even if you are not doing digital illustrations. Anyways if you can, always carry your final artwork (hand rendered hard-copy) to the printers to match colour, and if you have no control over printing or your art editor just does not bother- it's helpful to hand over the color pallet at-least.

weekend

Hope you have a great weekend :-)

Bulbul

On my recent trip to Munnar (Kerala) I spotted tons of these birds,  I thought of them as Robins, but it is actually the Bulbul, more specifically the Red-vented Bulbul.  Doesn't he look like a little punk with a fauxhawk :-)

Typo

are you.....?

Summers

It's getting so hot here in Delhi, and the only respite (for me) are the gorgeous blooming Gulmohor flowers right outside my bedroom and very soon we will have laburnums too :-).  Hope you have a great weekend.