Rainbow Umbrella

As a child I had a rainbow umbrella hat, the kind that had an elastic headband to fit around my head. I remember running in the rain, jumping in puddles and croaking like a frog all the while wearing the umbrella over my head! 

In India, we love the rains. As soon as it starts to pour we all head out of our homes, either to go to the nearest scenic long drive or to sit on the verandah with the family and drink hot tea, eat spicy onion fritters and watch kids play in the rain.

I  believe the rain is just as beautiful as the rainbow. 

Rainbow Umbrella, available for purchase here.

Rainbow Magnolia 3

PS. The line sheet that I have been working on since the past month is finally over! Yay! It was a very time consuming process but I'm very satisfied with the results. :)

As soon I figure out how to post pdf files in blogger I will share it with you all.

Rainbow Magnolia 2

Obviously I was in a extra bright mood when I created this yesterday :) 

Lately I have notices a slight change in my color palette. From highly saturated colors, I have started gravitating towards slightly muted ones (relatively speaking of course). Yesterday's Illustration had the slightly muted colors that I'm talking about. Still bright and colorful but a little less saturated. 

And this has me a little bit bothered. I have always attributed my bright color palette to my Indian roots and any deviation from that scares me and makes me question if I'm getting a little disconnected from my culture. Or if it is a natural progression/ evolution in my work. Whatever it is I'm keeping an eye on it.

Rainbow Magnolia 2

Rainbow Magnolia

I guess I'm in love with Magnolia! For the past few weeks I've been drawing them all day. With the temperature almost touching 100, I'm enjoying staying in and spending time with my happy Magnolias.

I'm still working on the series and will add some more in the following days.

Rainbow Magnolia

This is definitely not the scientific version of the Magnolia, but it's a fun one!!

 

Rainbow Trees

For the past few weeks I have been going through my old journals scanning and making notes. The idea is to transfer all possible illustration ideas to evernote on my iphone. That way I will have all my ideas at one place and with easy access anytime anywhere.

It's unbelievable how many ideas I have been just sitting on. Well not anymore! I'm working through the list one by one and here is the first one of the lot-

Combine two favorite things - rainbow colors and trees :D


When I was little, papa brought this giant rainbow colored eraser from one of his UK trips. That was my first encounter with rainbow colored things. How I loved that eraser! Thank you papa :)

And here is the result.

Rainbow trees (SOLD)