2001

A page from my October 2001 sketchbook.

Portraits

Yard dogs roadshow

Tobias

Yard dogs roadshow

More chronicles from my life:

Last week the Yard dogs Roadshow from California came into town to perform at the Opera house. There was an incredible vibe as soon as they got off their bus, and Layton and Anahata were the first ones I met....peering into the Band of Gypsies like a single tribe kept apart for unknown frequencies( our gallery being part of the Opera house building). Throughout the day smiling, waving, introducing , it was all very easy. I got put on the guest list, and the show....what a show it was.

A Vaudevillian burlesque visual feast to the eyes was what it was. A groovy band, with trumpets,guitars, saxophones, tap dancing accordianists, drummers, sword swallowers, fire eaters, burlesque dancers and all with a mystic flare of days gone by. Needless to say I caused a ruckus with my hooting and hollering, and the party continued at the gallery till 4 am,
where I got to meet and hang out with Norton P Electric, Sidecar Tommy, Five livered Larry, BBJ (Big Big Jim), Lily Rose Love who gave me the Ace of diamonds, Eenor Wildboar who played the guitar and a host of lovely people who welcomed me to join them on their roadshow.

Here are a few pages from my sketchbook inspired during and after their visit to Toronto.

Love,
Prash

Bird

The bird in my life right now.

Sketchbooks from my past

A couple of watercolours while at Mumbai, from my 2002 sketchbook. The one of Victoria terminus was done while my new pair of spectacles was being made.

Pondicherry

A watercolour at the India coffee house in Pondicherry.

Waiting

Here is a mural that I painted while at Cuppa coffee animation inc. As far as I can remember it's about 9X5 feet.

William's cottage

last week I went up to William's cottage on a cliff in Sundridge Ontario. It snowed on may 6th!
Here are a couple of watercolours from my sketchbook of William, and Lucci and ling on the armchair.

Joyful moment in art captured!

Why are these people so happy! Ah, this is the happy moment when a piece of Prashant's art is actually SOLD! Prashant is happy, the person who is buying the art is supremely happy and we can only imagine that all of the people who see the art will have their hearts and minds expanded and their hearts gladdened.


Small commercial break to say that one can actually buy Prash's art and that would be great because it would help him pay the bills and also spread his art around the world.

Nudes

Here are a few nudes from a show I had last year in a little piano bar, where I would occassionally sing jazz on wednesday nights. It was lovely to work on the landscape like quality of the human body, and i'm inspired to do a few more soon....larger perhaps.

Watch out for more.

Nudes1

Nudes2

Nudes 3

Dhrupad

The dhrupad style of music is one of the oldest forms of music in North India, which is very contemplative and meditative. The maharaja of Benares, patronises the best musicians of this style of music, every year during Mahashivaratri.

Shivaratri

The night of Shiva....and incredible circumstance of devotion and faith

Krishnamurti