An Other

A day

2012-01-31T10:20:00.000-08:00

....when I don't want to be on my own.

I want a hug.

She loves to dance :)

2012-01-26T04:26:00.000-08:00

She loves to dance :) Would you like to join her?

I am going to join her soon.

Get a moustache

2011-12-11T21:21:00.000-08:00

If moustache was worn like an accessory, I would have
hundreds of them.

bliss

2011-12-06T02:53:00.000-08:00

A brook can be a friend in a special way.
It talks to you with splashy gurgles.
It cools your toes and lets you sit
quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

from A friend is someone who likes you by Joan Walsh Anglund

I love this too much.

Tralalaaa :)

2011-12-02T01:25:00.000-08:00

Finding Nemo has become an inspiration these days :)
And I want to see a real Squirt in the sea.

Illustration Friday : Round

2011-12-01T02:48:00.000-08:00

Round, round round Pots!! Now that I have become a textile artist,

I want to be a potter now :) I always wanted to learn pottery, put

my hands in mud and create beautiful pots on potter's wheel.

I loved the feeling on my fingers of the moving pot on the wheel.

But but but, the pot just turns out of any shape on potter's wheel but round. That also looks interesting, but some day I will be able to create round pots too :)

Meet d00de

2011-11-29T21:23:00.000-08:00

Call him Doode, with extra stress on 'OO'

and make sure you make a proper pout while calling

his name,else he gets offended.

Please say hi to him.

Illustration friday : silent/silence

2011-11-17T01:34:00.000-08:00

ssssshhhhhhhh........

Illustration Friday: Mesmerizing

2011-09-21T10:45:00.000-07:00

I remember, while going back from college to home,
I would take with me either Opi, Urmi, Al (my friends)
on my bicycle. On the way, every single person would look
at us. Women walking on the pavement would be 'mesmerized',
and men found it 'amusing'. Men on bikes would turn back
again and again to see ' a girl carrying another girl on her cycle',
some would whistle, and some fixed the rear view image of
their motorbikes to witness this 'unusual sight' in that area.
And we would just enjoy and laugh the whole way seeing
people's expressions.

:)

2011-09-20T10:45:00.000-07:00

Gloom can be dealt with and enjoyed :)

I feel, ideas are becoming static now, what do
I do to stir my imagination? May be go out and sketch
whatt I see, and give a break to images that exist only in
my mind.

Love

2011-09-19T23:59:00.000-07:00

This is what I have been doing meanwhile.
I love fabric, threads as much as I love painting.
But I talk more of textiles than actually creating them.
So now, I have started creating some art clothes, which I
will share here very soon.

come true my wish :)

2011-09-18T06:50:00.000-07:00

The silent energy, which exists within us, around us,brought me to something so beautiful yesterday, beauty in the form of a being,so beautiful that I want to embrace it. I see beauty of this being in
glimpses. In Silence. In Smiles. My energy ha been low from last few days it just made me calm down. And then...

I look up at the sky filled with stars, under my breath, I make a secret wish.Though I have many wishes, but this one is something I really want to come true :)

First karadi tale:) I am almost there!

2011-08-07T22:38:00.000-07:00

These are some of the illustrations I have been working on for Karadi tales.

It has been a long journey, of ups and downs and great learning. All the illustrations

for the book are done, just a little finishing touch is required here and there. Now I

am impatient to see the book in my hand :)

Stay :)

2011-08-02T22:24:00.000-07:00

I like observing hands. People express so much through their hands.

Sometimes, even a slight touch gives a sparkling affectionate feeling.Sometimes, one would be talking furiously, and then your friend would hold your hand and say 'its ok", and the energy of the conversation changes, with one touch, and then one smiles.

When you try to hold tiny tinyyy hand of a new born baby, or try to open the baby's fist, he/she holds onto your finger so tight, almost saying 'caught you!' or do they say 'I won't let you go. Stay'.

I also don't want to let go some things/people from my life. I want to tell them - 'STAY'. Will they stay? I wish they stay.

Lets dance :)

2011-07-12T00:06:00.000-07:00

I want to go for dancing. Debu says he wants to go for dancing. Lets make it happen and not wait.

Debu, lets goooooo :)

And while I was painting, this song was playing in my head -

Super trouper lights are gonna find me,

Shining like the sun,

Smiling, having fun,

Feeling like a number one :)

A builder :)

2011-07-11T01:58:00.000-07:00

Someone in my workspace told Debu (my friend) - "Oh Sadhvi looks like a chair (meaning- I am from furniture design department, I imagined myself being a chair, we laughed) who would be carrying a pouch with tools like spanner, screw driver and doing tuck tuck tuck (sound effect). When Debu told me about this, the only image came to my mind was Bob the builder :D So here another wish gets added to my 'wish list' Be bob the builder (Sadhvi the builder :), What fun it would be to wear the yellow pants with huge pockets that have neverending tools, and fix anything and everything, even the screwed heads :P (or screw the heads)

....

2011-07-03T22:00:00.000-07:00

no image

2011-06-26T13:21:00.000-07:00

The soul of the words exists but the image does not exist at the moment, so I wait.

existence

2011-05-27T05:13:00.000-07:00

What comes to existence when one immerses in singing, dancing or painting?

I don't like feeling restless.

lala :)

2011-05-24T02:55:00.000-07:00

Whenever I go home, my dad often says,"but the other day only you slept snuggling in my arms, you have grown so fast." And I would say I don't want to grow up BUT now I say, let me hold your finger again, walk by my side while I grow up :)

Poke

2011-05-23T22:48:00.000-07:00

Some thoughts tag along with you most of the time. You eat with them, fly with them even sleep with them.But when you are asleep, and don't want to be woken up,the same thoughts "poke" you and scream disguised in feelings which you can feel even when you are asleep... and you are AWAKE with the same thoughts/feelings inside you.

Hey you thoughts!! Have I given
you the right to tag along with me all the time?

Undulating thoughts :)

2011-05-21T00:57:00.000-07:00

This kind of sketch happens, when one gets impatient in the middle of

painting. Am not happy with the visual, will draw again soon.

moments!!

2011-05-11T00:09:00.000-07:00

I have a moustache now ;)
Somebody wants to join me in to spazz??

A star!! where??

2011-05-09T06:04:00.000-07:00

yes. no. yes. no

yes..Oh no!!

Where is the shooting star??

another me

2011-05-08T02:05:00.000-07:00

Yes, there is another me, inside there, where....
I build the castles of my dreams, wishes and imagination,
I smile...

I walk on the clouds, I hear the stars sing,
unfurl my wings with the wind,
amalgamate with the sea,
meet the sky where they become one,
the time becomes still, I want to remain one
with the amalgamation of the sea,
I see, I feel, I love,
I aspire, I struggle,
I hope, I laugh, I cry,
and I love more.

and THEN,
I REMOVE, the mirror,
I find JUST ME.

:)

2011-05-03T07:10:00.000-07:00

Life is but a dream??? I don't know.
I figured that I cannot live without the dream and imagination.
I want to transcend the reality, and live my dream.

for very leetil brother :)

2011-05-02T09:58:00.000-07:00

This is the only thing I have made for my brother. You are not very little anymore Gagan :) Earlier you used to look up to talk to me, Now I look up to talk to you that my neck hurts sometimes. (Am exaggerating :D). Much louvee. And I say thank you :)

call of the day

2011-05-02T06:09:00.001-07:00

PEACE YO!!!!

furl the wings

2011-05-02T00:44:00.000-07:00

Sometimes we build our own world of wishes, dreams, imagination and get trapped in them.
We forget about reality. I guess its time to come back to reality and furl the wings.

New world

2011-04-30T02:49:00.000-07:00

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born - Anais Nin

grrrr!!!

2011-04-07T04:25:00.000-07:00

This is where I WANT TO BE right now!!

It is so grrrrrr to not be able to do/be at a place where

you want to be.

But painting makes me happy :)

......

2011-03-25T05:26:00.000-07:00

restless...

Johny Walker ;D

2011-03-23T06:29:00.000-07:00

No, it is not the time to walk away yet.....

Zooooooom!!!

2011-03-20T05:52:00.000-07:00

I can ride bike properly now....almost properly.. yeyii

and Tapan goes ...left, left ,left....stopstopstoppppppp...

A buss bus buss in the front BREAAAAKKKKKK!!! PHEWW!!

but who listens to him, I wonder!

I think now he knows exactly how I feel when I sit behind

him. Tapan, this post is truely dedicated to you muhuhahahahaah...

The sketch is not really accurate but I guess you can do with it.

How many times must a man look up?

2011-03-18T03:10:00.000-07:00

The other day I was remembering Bob Dylan's song -

how many times must a man look up
Before he sees the sky?

I remember when I was small, there would be power cuts in my
city. I would go on the terrace, spread my sheet to lie on to face the
stars. I would just start counting them. My Mum tried telling me that
there are endless stars, one can't count them. I never believed her.
Every night I would go up and start counting the stars thinking one
day I would succeed. I would forget everything and become part of the sky.

I never succeeded but I learnt counting like that. Now thinking of
Dylan's lines, days pass by and I don't see the sky, even though I look
up many times.

Illustration friday: WARNING

2011-03-09T20:41:00.001-08:00

Sometimes IDEA runs away without any "warning"

Bored!!!!

2011-02-18T23:59:00.000-08:00

I am a little bored, or say I am running out of ideas.
What to do in such a situation?

New Beginning

2011-02-18T23:52:00.000-08:00

Lot of things are happening at the same time.
I am a little annoyed :/

IF: surrender

2011-02-18T23:45:00.000-08:00

DO NOT "surrender" that is what I have been advised from someone,
as I have started working and I am a little lost :)
I guess I will find my way soon and wont surrender.

some more illustrations

2011-02-04T01:33:00.001-08:00

Illustrations for tool-kit

2011-02-04T01:17:00.000-08:00

These are some illustrations from my graduating project. I worked with marginalised children, My work as a textile designer was to help children use waste fabric tpo design clothes for themselves. I Came up with a tool-kit that contains various activities to enable children imagine, talk about the fears, dreams, challenges etc. and express through textiles. To know more about my project you can visit www.windonroll.blogspot.com

find!!

2010-07-31T00:47:00.000-07:00

I am trying to find something about myself, I cannot spot what is it.
The thoughts keep disappearing like a squirrel behind a tree.
And projecct had started, I am not frequent qith posts on my blog.
I shall try to be more frequent here.

Green all over!

2010-04-27T01:29:00.000-07:00

Champu and Lila

2010-04-15T09:14:00.000-07:00

some known and unknown faces

2010-04-11T02:41:00.000-07:00

I miss you MA :(

2010-02-09T21:32:00.000-08:00

Growing up is painful, wish I could just hug you and cry.

I will leave alone....

2010-02-01T20:04:00.000-08:00

Perspective in the first frame is a little warped :P it will improve over time :)

search

2010-01-25T02:32:00.000-08:00

It is more irritating to not recognize what goes in the
mind, than to know what is there in the mind.

for urmila :)

2010-01-14T08:27:00.001-08:00

A story

2009-11-30T03:02:00.000-08:00

This is a story I illustrated for a competition. I did not have enough time to refine it. But the submission date has got extended. Now I can work on it again right from the beginning :)

blue

2009-11-30T01:39:00.000-08:00

All things bright and beautiful,
all creatures great and small
All things bright and wonderful,
the lord God made them all :)

Music makes the people come together

2009-11-26T01:50:00.001-08:00

IF:unbalanced

2009-11-20T10:39:00.000-08:00

unbalanced:when mind overpowers body
let the mind and body flow together

It made them happy :)

2009-10-31T02:25:00.000-07:00

It's just that

2009-10-30T23:17:00.000-07:00

I cried.

2009-10-30T23:07:00.001-07:00

Neither past nor future,just the memories remain.
Some are kept in safe,and I let some fade.

Block designs

2009-09-29T10:02:00.000-07:00

These are some of the blocks that I designed for Sunny and Meeta. Some of them will be soon available at Either Or in Pune or People Tree in Delhi. Do grab them once they are printed on T-shirts.

weaving through

2009-04-23T10:19:00.000-07:00

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"I spend aadi botal"

creativity

2009-04-23T09:54:00.000-07:00

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2009-03-04T03:58:00.000-08:00

An Art spread for a magazine "cutlet"

2009-03-04T03:21:00.000-08:00

Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best :) :) :) :)

Benaras

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our books

2009-01-15T14:17:00.000-08:00

some pages

2009-01-15T13:59:00.000-08:00

Some pages from my graphic novel
...i wrote n i drew

2009-01-15T13:56:00.000-08:00

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clock hand

2009-01-15T13:37:00.000-08:00

visualizing emotions through clock in previous 24 hours

2009-01-05T05:48:00.000-08:00

front and back

2008-10-10T03:48:00.000-07:00

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cow mata

2008-08-31T10:45:00.000-07:00

This is a small story that myself and my younger brother made. I turned it into an illustrative story :)

2008-08-30T06:03:00.000-07:00

double exposure

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div

shoe shop

2008-07-28T00:00:00.000-07:00

our house shoe-shop

rocks

2008-07-27T20:51:00.000-07:00

underwater

2008-07-19T05:02:00.000-07:00

I like walking, walking and walking away.I like to follow those small footprints. Everyfoot print is different and has a different storyto say. One footprint leads me to the other and I walk again. When I look at it, I wonder what this foot was thinking when it lay here. I want to know the stories of the footprints. I like writing them. I like to draw them with camera, inks,colors, paper,pencils and prints.

2008-07-19T04:27:00.000-07:00

mirrored

2008-07-19T04:22:00.000-07:00

haunted house in yercaud,

where Divya made friends with aunty and uncle whom only she could see :D

2008-07-19T04:18:00.000-07:00

old memories

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Andy

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coffee house

2008-07-18T03:14:00.000-07:00

AN OTHER?

another day
another hope
another try
another failure
and an endless journey

another dream
another thought
another desire
another effort
and a question mark

another fear
another bliss
another tear
but who cares?

another virtue
another fault
another success
and greed for more

another touch
another feel
another kiss
and starve for more

another start
another path
another end
but is there an end?

another smile
another laugh
another jubilation
and the surf of memories

another change
another frustration
another pain

BUT no another me.

-sadhvi