Entries tagged as ‘Drawing’
Aditi Raychoudhury. Malaria Dreams. Pen and Ink. Penguin. 1996.
I don’t have the record of the illustrations inside the book, which are of a mosquito, patiently chewing away at a Corinthian column, till there is nothing left but rubble.
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About the Book:
‘Building a house for someone is like getting to know the person himself.’ In the course of his career, well-known architect Gautam Bhatia has designed innumerable dream houses for a cross-section of people. Some of these people had the most incredible suggestions and demands, and the writer uses these as a springboard to create a set of quasi-fictional stories involving bizarre people with equally bizarre plans and theories. We meet an eccentric Parsi millionaire who wants to run a ferry service between Bombay and the Maldives; a guru, snug in his hi-tech ashram, who prescribes Body Shop moisturizers for better health; an obsessive collector who wants a secret basement in his house for his library of first editions and manuscripts; and an NRI who wishes to shape his nostalgia into a hundred-thousand-dollar ‘caando’. At once thoughtful and funny, this collection of stories will only cement Gautam Bhatia’s reputation as one of India’s most imaginative and witty writers.
Title: Malaria Dreams And Other Visions Of Architecture
Author: Gautam Bhatia
ISBN: 014026213X
ISBN-13: 9780140262131
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1996
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 280
Categories: Drawing · Illustration · Images · Professional · Published
Tagged: Art, Drawing, Illustration, Pen and Ink, Tracing Paper, Vellum
November 3, 1996 · 1 Comment
This was my cover plate for Punchtantra describing the absurdities of the human condition, which is the essence of the Panchatantra.
The tree represents knowledge, the parrots – multiple generations – pass on their wisdom, through the spoken word, as was traditionally done in India for centuries. The mommy elephant – patient and wise – ignores her babies’complaints, as one is teased by his older sibling and the monkey, so that they can figure out a way to handle life.
The frogs, are so deeply immersed in gossip , that they are oblivious to the snake lurking in the grass, hungry for his supper.
The squirrel (the artist) is just hanging in there on mommy elephant’s trunk for the ride of her life – through the vulnerable jungle of humanity.
Moral: Focus on your supper, lest you want to become another’s.
Aditi Raychoudhury. Tree of Life. Pen and Ink. 1996.
About the Book:
A wacky take-off on Vishnu Sharma’s PanchatantraInspired by James Finn Garner’s Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, best-selling author Gautam Bhatia takes the men, women and animals of the Panchatantra and relocates them in contemporary India with its newly acquired nations of political correctness. So we have the fiercely vocal lesbian feminist, Yajnadatta, who leaves her husband for a woman; the expatriate dog Chitranga who flees racial persecution in the West; and a mongoose with an Oedipus complex, armed with a .45 Colt. As these characters engage with the burning issues of the day—unemployment, oppression, environmental pollution, sexual incompatibility—they lay bare the hilarious absurdities of our muddled world.
Product Details:
Title: Punchtantra
Author: Gautam Bhatia
ISBN: 0140271163
ISBN-13: 9780140271164
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Number of Pages: 232
Categories: Drawing · Illustration · Images · Professional · Published · Vignette · Writing
Tagged: Art, Drawing, Illustration, Panchatantra, Pen and Ink, Tracing Paper, Vellum
My project was to design the typeface for the first letter of each story in the politically correct, updated version of the Panchatantra. Written in, some believe, 300 BC by Vishnu Sarma, the Panchatantra is similar to Aesop’s fables. The author liked the few letters I did, and changed the beginning of each story to include all the letters of the Roman alphabet.
Aditi Raychoudhury. A. Pen and Ink. 1996.
Aditi Raychoudhury. B. Pen and Ink. 1996.
Aditi Raychoudhury. C. Pen and Ink. 1996.
About the Book:
A wacky take-off on Vishnu Sharma’s PanchatantraInspired by James Finn Garner’s Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, best-selling author Gautam Bhatia takes the men, women and animals of the Panchatantra and relocates them in contemporary India with its newly acquired nations of political correctness. So we have the fiercely vocal lesbian feminist, Yajnadatta, who leaves her husband for a woman; the expatriate dog Chitranga who flees racial persecution in the West; and a mongoose with an Oedipus complex, armed with a .45 Colt. As these characters engage with the burning issues of the day—unemployment, oppression, environmental pollution, sexual incompatibility—they lay bare the hilarious absurdities of our muddled world.
Product Details:
Title: Punchtantra
Author: Gautam Bhatia
ISBN: 0140271163
ISBN-13: 9780140271164
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Number of Pages: 232
Categories: Drawing · Illustration · Images · Professional · Published
Tagged: Art, Drawing, Illustration, Pen and Ink, Tracing Paper, Vellum
I have been drawing, sporadically, ever since I can remember. But, I have either lost them, or given them away, and didn’t have a camera, copier or scanner to document them. These sketches from my visit to Kathmandu in 1991, may be two of the earliest drawings I have with me.
Aditi Raychoudhury. Village Scene, Kirtipur. Pen and Ink. 1991.
Aditi Raychoudhury. Village Gossip, Kirtipur. Pen and Ink. 1991.
Categories: Drawing · Images
Tagged: Drawing, Pen and Ink
