Monsoon Over Backwaters

 This is a watercolour painting of an imaginary scene on A3 size 270 gsm Chitrapat watercolour paper (rough) painted in Sept 2021. From a personal point of view this is one of the very few benefits from the pandemic lockouts of 2020-21. I improved my watercolour skills, and more importantly, I got over my reluctance to use a brush (rather than a pen), by doing at least one watercolour painting daily during that period.

Festival Day at the Temple

I carry a very tiny watercolour palette in my work bag and some water brushes. Acouple of days ago, a short while before I was to leave for home, I felt a sudden urge to sketch or paint sonething. I managed to do this with an image on my phone as my refernece. This is a 5" x 4" black ink gel pen sketch with watercolour washes, done in an elephant dung paper sketchbook, which my wife got for me from Sri Lanka.