by Priya | Jun 14, 2020 | Bangalore, Graphic Novel, Lockdown Drawings, Matera, Priya Sebastian, Textures, Uncategorized
The first two photographs are preparatory work for a graphic novel. I don’t really want to show the images in detail since it is at the incubation stage. It is slow, careful work like slowly solving a difficult puzzle which leads you to the next stage,...
by Priya | Feb 24, 2020 | Claustrophobia, Graphic Novel, Matera, Priya Sebastian, Textures
Last week I decided to tackle the difficult things I was putting off. The first challenge was to draw the ancient city of Matera. These are my first attempts above and below using watersoluble graphite. I don’t quite know what to think of it but it is my initial...
by Priya | Jan 6, 2020 | Bangalore, Collage, Matera, Priya Sebastian
Right from New Year’s day I was on the go. Since this is the holiday season, I had friends visiting from other parts of the world and from India itself. It made for many enjoyable moments, like sketching in Lalbagh with one friend after a very long time. I had...
by Priya | Dec 29, 2019 | Bangalore, Matera, Priya Sebastian, Textures
Friends have been telling me what a marvellous dialogue Hello Every Sunday is, and I agree. If it wasn’t for this I would not have tackled the landscape of Matera, I would have thought it far too difficult and avoided it. It has been challenging drawing these...
by Priya | Dec 22, 2019 | Bangalore, Matera, Priya Sebastian, Textures
My challenge over the last two weeks has been to get the textures of Matera into my sketchbooks. After countless attempts with various media on different kinds of paper, I went back to familiar dry media of pastel on Canson paper which turned out the best of all my...
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