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Hello Dear Reader,

A few years ago, we had visited Tanakpur in Uttarakhand for a family vacation. On one of the many long walks - I took this photo of a black drongo (a bird native to our region, with a distinctive long split black tail). It made a nice contrast to the warm greens and browns all around it in the tall trees. Almost looks like it is meditating.

Have a great day,

Abhishek (art noob)

Today I wanted to share with you the painting which inspired the name of the Impressionist movement. The painting is Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet.

The painting depicts sunrise in the port of Monet’s hometown of La Havre.

You can read more about painting at its wiki page - Impression, Sunrise - Wikipedia.

May the force be with you,

Abhishek (art noob)

Hi Guys,

Utawaga Hiroshige, the Japanese Artist from the early 19th century, is one of my favourite artists of all time. His work has a serenity and unity which is hard to describe but easy to feel. His paintings were my desktop wallpaper for a long time. Even today I go looking for his paintings from time to time. Oh by the way, that is a measure of goodness of a visual artist - how many times the artist’s work compels you to look.

Hiroshige’s Wikipedia page has a decent collection of his woodcut works. I’m sharing one …

Hi Everyone,

In a trip to Trivandrum a few years ago, we had the good luck to visit the art museum called the Sri Chitra Art Gallery. The gallery was setup to house the works of Raja Ravi Varma and his Kilimanoor Royal family. The gallery is right next to the Zoo in Trivandrum and is well maintained. It houses some of Raja Ravi Varma’s best paintings. You can read more about the art gallery here - Sri Chitra Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram (keralaculture.org).

As soon as you enter the gallery you will see a larger than life painting named …

Hi Guys,

I just wanted to share a cityscape that I drew a few days ago in the excellent art program aseprite.

That’s it for now,

Bye!

Abhishek (art noob)

“who paints the sky will walk on clouds”
― Stefano Bosis

Today I just wanted to share a quick sketch of a few fluffy clouds in an otherwise clear sky.

-Abhishek (art noob)

Hi All,

In all aspects of art, bringing many elements of a piece together into one creation is called composition. And so composition is a skill which each artist needs to acquire. Composition for me is about the narrative - what is it this piece of music, or drawing, or film is trying to say. What is the beginning, the middle, the end? Who are the actors? What is happening?

Once the narrative is set in the mind of the artist, their skills at composition help them get to the final creation.

I started my journey with photography and watching lots …

Hi Guys,

Sometimes you know how to trace a line or a box, but you want a tool to do it for you with precision. Of course in any paint program there are tools to do this with line segments and arcs and so on. But it gets tedious if there are too many lines and they have to follow a strict pattern.

This is where computer programs can come to the rescue. Almost everyone who learnt to program as a kid, is familiar with a variant of Turtle programming or Turtle graphics. A long time ago someone invented this …

If you have ever wondered about Leonardo da Vinci, and whether he was really an accomplished artist an inventor. Or you might have wondered what he was like or what was his process. A few years ago, da Vinci’s notebook was made available online by the British library. You can browse the document here - The British Library MS Viewer (bl.uk). I doubt you will be able to understand the text - as it is in Italian and his left-handed mirror writing😀. Yes, you got that right!

But what you can do is look at the illustrations, which are numerous …

Hi All,

This is another post about art for games.

Today I want to write to you about making sound effects for games. A couple of years or more ago, I did the cs50 game development course available for free on edx - CS50's Introduction to Game Development | edX. In the course you create several old 2d games from scratch. Colton Ogden the instructor showed a program called Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.

This was the first time I was able to create some sounds without having any idea about how to work with audio. It’s almost like …