This Friday!

Join me on Friday (7th January) from 6.00 PM to 9.00 PM at the F&N Gallery for the January First Friday Juried Show. Yes! My first gallery show. Yay!

There will also be works from some wonderful artists - Sija Chen, Matthew G. Craig, Susan Klein, J. Benay Bain Lewis, Preston Shurley, Lindsay Wraga, James Dean Erickson. A motley group of artists from all over the east coast.  

Location - 

F&N Gallery 

2009 Frankford Ave.

Philadelphia, PA, 19125

It's time for Thank You's

I have surpassed 2,000 Etsy hearts! Thank you everyone for the love :)

And thank you daniellexo for putting Birdumbus disappears on etsy.

Also thanks to the lovely Brittni who talked about ArtOcrat at her blog papernstitch, so sweet of her.

The Garland Vendor in Nola’s room

I just love it when I see how customers have hung my work in their home, office or apartment. These photos are from finding magnolia who has hung the garland vendor in her daughter's new room. :)

To see more pictures of the gorgeous room click here.

Picture credits - Finding Magnolia.

Rainbow trees on papernstitch's daily picks!

Rainbow trees has been very popular in the last few weeks. It was in etsy finds email a few days back and now it's on Paper n Stitch's daily picks.

Visit the papernstitch homepage (http://papernstitch.com) to check it out.

Update

Papa and me - A day before my wedding

I have been mentally writing this post for many many day. My one thought was to slip in quietly and resume writing again, as if nothing had ever happened. Doing that would have been so much more easier.

With this post I'm hoping for a catharsis.

On August 10th I received a phone call that changed my life forever. Papa, who was on a business trip to China, passed away in his sleep. I was devastated. We all were. For the longest time I didn't believe it. I had spoken to him a day before and he was happily telling me about his adventures in China. It was his first time there and he was enjoying it very much.

We left for India the next day and I have been here ever since. We were a close knit family of four (Papa, Mummy, my younger sister and me) and with papa gone there is a big gaping hole.

He was my one man fan club. The first one to congratulate me when I hit 100 sales on etsy, the one to print and proudly show around my first interview, the one to save my first newspaper front page picture. He would check the shop and read my blog daily. He sometimes knew about a sale before I did :)

I have been pretty disoriented since then. The grief has subsided but the emptiness is there. Every time I will myself to draw, the blank page stubbornly stares back at me. And it seems fitting. My personal utopia lies shattered around my feet and it looks like it will be a while before I'm able to create another happy illustration.

Oh, you will be missed so so much Papa.

So long,

All the Magnolia

I didn't get a chance to share this one earlier.

Sailing in a Tea Cup

A few weeks back we went sailing at the Pinchot Lake. We had a great time sailing at this beautiful 340-acre man made lake. The weather was great, water calm and the breeze very soothing. I got an opportunity to click many pictures of colorful sailboats, kayaks and canoes.

Capturing that lovely time (with my own twist of course!) is this 'Sailing in a Tea Cup' illustration.

Sailing in a Tea Cup