the peacock

Another colorful rendering by lala, done with sketch pens.

Red

A very unusual perspective view of a flower...

The Garden

A beautiful rendering in sketch pens by Lala....

The child

water color painting by lala.

Another story....

Another sketch pen and color illustration by Lala.

The Fish

A happy fish in sketchpen art!

The Story

A scene from a story...I find it quite charming!

A village scene

A village scene with mud huts and maidens carrying water in their pitchers....

Lord Ganesha

A prominent deity of Hindus, Lord Ganesha , who has a head of an elephant.He is the first one to be worshipped atthe start of any big event, as he is supposed to ward off all evil . Lala did it by using bright colored felt pens.

The Unicorn

Here is a fresh painting of Lala.He did this on his recent trip to Delhi. The flying unicorn in the vast open skies...so many possibilities...

Back In Delhi

Hi everyone..I am back in Delhi and the good news is that Lala is also visiting me .He gave me a bunch of his new paintings which I am going to share with you very soon.....Keep watching!

On Vacation

Welcome to the new blogger friends who have decided to follow this blog in last 3 weeks. As I am on vacation right now, I don't have access to Lala's new paintings.When I get back to India in June end, I will surely update this blog.Till then, happy painting!

A dialogue

A dialogue between an old man and his daughter-in-law...may be she is giving him his medicine.Both of them are in rustic indian attire.

Run!

He borrrowed this concept from a kids' story...the lion is running for its life! I like the use of bold colors here.He has used sketch pens for this art piece.

Magic of Black and Grey

Various figures drawn by black ink/paint...depicting people in action. Lady on the right looks like a happy bride; people on top are labourers lifting and carrying loads on their heads. ( this is a usual scene when there is any construction actvity going on) a mountain Yak with its owner in the left....

messenger and courtesan

A curious dialogue between the king's messenger and a courtesan.The guy is carrying a spear, which was usually carried by the messengers in anicient times...Courtesan with all her finery.

Same style...ink scribbled figures later washed with a bit of water color...

Story of king and sage

This is a rendering of a scene comprsing a king with a sword in his hand, talking to a sage holding a rope ..I wonder what they are talking about!
He has used pen and water colors for this.

The Yamuna

This painting depicts a sunset at the banks of river Yamuna .May be in Agra, as we can see the Taj Mahal in background....my assumption, only! Lala did not supply any information on this...this could be Delhi, too--as the river flows through the city and Delhi has many Mughal Era monuments similer to these burjs that we see in the background.

The lovely sunset and the boat are not limited to the geography ..so, go on, and enjoy....

A King's Court

This is a king's court.In Indian History we have a lot of kings and monarches with a thousand s of stories weaved around them. They pocessed a lot of wealth and were treated like Gods by their subjects. India was a called a "Golden Bird" before the invasions of outer world....People were very wealthy and gold was in overabundance....those were the days....

The Village Scenes

Above are two typical village scenes in India where oxen are used to plough fields ...One can see a tubewell in the background ans some hills too.

In the second picture, two women are busy in their domestic chores.Although the practice of cleaning and crushing wheat grains to prepare ATTA ( Flour) for consumption is done by machines these days, in older times, a CHAKKI ( Grinding stone of a kind) was used for the purpose.In it, there were two heavy disks of stone attached to a wooden handle.The grain was put in between and the person would rotate the upper disk with the help of the handle.It was a labourious process! I am not sure if I am describing it the right way...(as all these things have hindi names and descriptions) But I can assure you that this task was not an easy one, as the stone were very, very heavy. I saw a Chakki myself and I couldn't even dare to attempt moving it! I will try to get a picture of it sometime:>) But the women of our villages were quite strong to manage it so easily.They still are.