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Working with pencil and ink has a special fascination for me. I believe that drawing skills are fundamental to all forms of fine art.

If I could have my own way I would have confined myself entirely to black and white.
Edgar Degas
In addition to my passion and fondness for devotional art, I also love to draw and paint animals, insects and birds. The complexity and beauty of nature never fail to intrigue me.

Road runner. Pencil on paper, 8,5 in x 5,5 in.

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything in art, and not having it, one has nothing.
-Giorgio Vasari
Deer. Pencil on paper, 19,5 in x 8.5 in.
Jaguar, pencil on paper, 19 in x 13 in.

The basic concept of drawing is contained in Camille Pissaro's instructio to his son Lucien, in a letter from 1883:

...it is essential for both eye and hand to grasp the form, and it is only by much drawing, drawing everything, drawing unceasingly that one fine day one is very surprised to find it possible to express something in its true spirit..........

The sketch of a chapel to the left was done in the sacred town of Vrindavana over ten years ago. it was last timeI visited India. I put this linedrawing here as it brings some nostalgic memories of my four month stay there.

Here in the west it is not always so easy to be a devotee of Radha- Krishna, but in this sacred place everyone greets each other with 'Jaya Radhe" All glories to Sri Radha. There are tenples everywhere and it is very inspiring as devotion to the lord springs naturally from ones heart.
Composition alters ifself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary realtion to its format-I would not repeat this drawing on another sheet of different dimensions. -Henri Matisse
Ant trail. Pencil on paper, 10 in x 3 in.

Kuan Yin
is one of the most widely recognized icons in the world. She is the bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by Buddhist in China and across Asia. Commonly known in the west as the Goddess of Mercy, she is also revered under various names in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

On the picture to the left I did her in a pencil drawing. The picture to the right is an ink and line drawing.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson