Extra from Pune. This candy home is a part of a avenue stuffed with row homes, all in shiny colours, constructed within the Indo-Saracenic model, combining components from Indian and British structure.
This mosque, like many different mosques within the metropolis, known as Jama Masjid. There is likely to be plenty of Jama Masjids, however I wager solely one in every of them is by just a little store that solely sells ties.
I sketched in one of many many markets that make up the previous metropolis with Farah, after a scrumptious Parsi lunch. A lot to speak about and atone for in a single afternoon! Farah and I share a love of shade, and she or he will probably be educating a color-based workshop at this yr’s City Sketchers Worldwide Symposium in Poznan.
I stepped right into a temple courtyard, and this group of women chatting whereas they waited for his or her children to be executed with faculty caught my eye. They shared tales and meals and advised me they met up day by day whereas their children attended a close-by kindergarten.
Banyan bushes are a lot enjoyable to sketch, all twisty and tangly and dangly. This one close to Pataleshwar Caves was a very spectacular specimen.
I begin most days with a cup of chai and finish my sketching day very like I begin it, this time at Ravi ki Chai, with a cup of piping sizzling jaggery tea.
The primary submit on this collection of sketches from India is right here.
Sketches from Mumbai are arising subsequent.
