Sketch Pad

 Black & white photography has an incredible charm which many professional photographers tend to acknowledge. The varying degrees  of gray creating depth and capturing life in its true spirit is not dampened  by the emergence of color photography. This is because  the  absence of color prevents distraction from the main subject. The pencil sketch here is  inspired by a photograph by a famous photographer T.S.Nagarajan.  The orthodoxy of an old Indian lady emerging from the river Ganges after a holy dip held such a spontaneity the urge to capture it in the sketch pad could not be controlled.   

A sketch of a temple sculpture in indian ink is no match in capturing the divinity exuding in those monolith granite stones in hundreds of south Indian temples. The riches accumulated in the kings' exchequer were usefully spent to create thousands of artisans working for generations. Think of this in today's context. When people are engaged with useful work it does not permit the youth energy to go astray, in  counter productive activities, harming the society as we find now a days in almost all countries.                                             

The sculpture depicts Lord Shiva with his consort Shakti or Parvati