According to the Law....

 

Some ink studies with hatching.

Anjeneyar

 

Friendship, Loyalty, Courage, Strength, Determination, Perseverance. A pencil on paper study.

Lunar New Year 2022-Year of the Tiger

Playing with the geometry of the tiger's face- taken as an octagon. The octagon is also found in Chinese art and architecture.

Even William Blake acknowledged the symmetry in his poem which starts with the following stanza...

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

KTM Kartun! Malaysian railway cartoons

 

Apart from my interest in trains of the land of my birth, Sri Lanka, I am also interested in the trains in the land I grew up in... Malaysia. The railways system in Malaysia is named KTM- Keretapi Tanah Melayu.

These are some cartoons I drew a few years ago about KTM. The colour one reflects the seasonal Balik Kampung (return to the village) which occurs every year for the Hari Raya Puasa  after Ramadan.

Year of The Ox... Lunar New Year

2020 being the Year of The Rat, seems to have spread the COVID 19 virus across the globe. Rats are known for carrying diseases. This Lunar Year brings the dawn of the Year of The Ox... bringing strength and resilience for Body, Spirit and Mind.

Vinayagar Chathurthi celebration!

 

Today is Vinayagar Chathurthi falling this year on 22 August 2020 in the Tamil month of Aavani. Vinayagar's birthday- a big celebration in North India.

The 4th day after the new moon. 4 denotes chathuram. So I decided to draw Vinayagar centered in a square which is a four sided polygon. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Chaturthi

Om Ganapathy- pencil sketch study

The primary sound Om (AUM) can be made by any human being whether they have the power of speech or not. It is made by the vocal chords and the mouth starting in the wide open position (Aaa), narrowing (Ooo) and closing the lips (Mmmm).

Hindus associate this sound with the deity Ganesh/Ganapathy/Vigneswaran/Pillaiyar.

There are many representations of Ganesh written with the Sanskrit script Om symbol, but there seem to be very few with the Tamil language script Om.

This is a study I have made with Ganesh represented with the Tamil script for Om.