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. 

BIG Show

Hey Guys! (drum roll....) My illustration has been selected for showcase at the Book Illustrators Gallery (BIG) which is a part of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) from 25 – 30 May 2013, Singapore. BIG aims to showcase the work of local and regional illustrators and artists, across genres and borders. So if you are Singapore or are participating in the conference, please do drop in and also tell me all about it. I wish AFCC paid for me to be there as well :-) as of now am super happy that my work is there. 

Spinning yarns

Here is cover done for a collection of Indian short stories, Published by Rupa

front cover

back cover

Bani Thani

...and it's finally done, the story of two butterflies Bani and Thani. This books is being published by Room to Read. Room to Read is an international Non Govt Organization that primarily works in two areas - literacy and gender equality in education.  They work in collaboration with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children.  Room to read develops their own content, and they publish books, sadly this very book wont be available for sale at regular book-shops, since they don't sell books, but distribute it free :-( (previously I had illustrated this book for them)  I had such a great time illustrating for Bani Thani. A lot of imagery is inspired by the old city in Ahmedabad (teen Darwaza area) , when I was a design student there we would venture out every weekend and explore, buy yards of fabric( from Ghamtiwala) eat street food and do photography, it's been fun revisiting all those places and illustrating this :-)

something's brewing

Here is the first page of a book I have been commissioned, the publishers have been too kind and patient, while I have been busy with my other deadlines and commitments. This is a incomplete page...but I could not resist :-)

The Rainbow Series

My books are here! Printed and hardbound. I am very very happy with the quality of the print, Thompson Press did such a great job! I cant wait for it to be in bookshops and online :-)
Published By : Hay House India
Author : Percy Shroff
Illustrations : Shweta Mohapatra

BOOKART'12

My illustration work was a part of a group exhibition at bookart part of the bigger event Bookaroo. such a privilege to share wall space with all the fantastic artists I respect so much !!  The exhibition was housed in the beautiful Sanskriti Kendra, Anandgram, New Delhi. Hope you went with you son/daughter/nephew/niece or just by yourself :-) 

WALL PAINTING

Earlier this year , I did a one day workshop with kids at the Integral School in Hyderabad. We gathered leaves from the campus and traced them onto the wall and here is what we came up with :-)

Nippy the Dog

EAT LIST 2012

Here are some illustrations done for the  T&L magazine (Travel and Leisure magazine), for their anniversary issue (sept'12). so much fun drawing food (and devouring it of course!)

felix the penguin!

new book coming up!!

why oh why indeed!!

Song of the Nightingale (work in progress)

 

Remember I had posted a sneak peak some weeks back..here are more illustrations for a book I am working on. I am working on the  text and layout now,..... this was so much fun! and I discovered ..I love LOVE drawings little birds :-)