Ball Pen Canvas Painting Exhibition Mumbai

Shirish Vasant Deshpande

"Bhima Shankar" House, 199, Shivbasav Nagar, Sector-2, M.M.Extension, Belgaum - 590010, Karnataka, India. PHONE NO.: +91 94481 37724, EMAIL ADDRESS :[email protected] Website : http://www.shirishdeshpande.com http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-shirish-deshpande http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=31982 http://indianartnetwork.com/profile/ShirishDeshpande

Art for Shirish, is food for the soul. He “paints” with ball point pens. You may also call it a drawing. Unlike painting with brush, where a single stroke can cover a large area with color, the ball pen lines are very thin and it is only one line at a time. It is fun creating a number of shades by combining the only available limited colors in ball point pens. Millions of lines need to be drawn to make one painting come alive. He loves to paint landscapes, portraits as well as abstract Student of G.D.Art in Applied Arts from Abhinav Kala Vidyalay, Pune, India. The common theme in all his works so far is ‘precision’.

"A village beauty" - Color Ball pens on Primed Canvas, size - 12 x 15 inches (30 x 38 cms) The calmness in the atmosphere is what comes to mind at first glance. The doors, windows, wall colors, bricks, roof tiles, wooden logs etc. kept on the plastic sheet on the roof, cloth hanging on a rope, the electric wires, and the tiny branch of a shrub against the dark brown tree trunk make such a wonderful composition.

"Contemplation" - Color Ball pens on Primed Canvas, size - 12 x 16 inches (30 x 40 cms). A deliberately casual portrait, speaking volumes. The sobriety of her response to another eye is flaunty with unprecedented elegance. This blush casts a magical spell.

"Invocation" - Color Ball pens on Primed Hardboard, size - 12 x 12 inches (30 x 30 cms) An outcome of the visualization of the state of mind of the artist, when he was asking the divine power of the universe to help him realize his potential. We can feel the reverberations of this speaking picture through the rendering of the rock formations and the cloudy sky.

"Morning in my village" - Color Ball pens on Primed Hardboard, size - 18 x 24 inches (45 x 60 cms) When one sees a single object that stands for a thousand meanings, one only glares and gasps. The chilly backdrop against the lush green front makes dewdrops form on one's skin. The style of the woods is such that the white fog empowers the viewer to have the depth of the jungle to his own imagination.

"My village house" - Color Ballpens on Primed Canvas, size - 18 x 18 inches (45 x 45 cms) The simplicity of the most common village scene could even be put forth with such an exquisite composition that is aristocratically modest in appearance is only the sign of an artist's overwhelming strength in visualizing what is beyond the imagination of a layman's eye. The vivid curtain of the woods in the background and the purple sky behind them against the humble foreground is a treat to the eye.

"Red leaf" - Color Ballpens on Primed Canvas, size - 18 x 18 inches (45 x 45 cms) A true work of art never speaking any less of the mastery of the artist, both technical and tactical. Mist and haze of violet rendered along the lines of nature's most apt symbol, with tints of minute red, green and grey, proclaim the ardent style of the artist. In the entirety of the composition, the two stones, the red leaf and the white and green-yellow leaves portray the phenomenon of discrete individualism in celebration of the harmonic oneness.

"The Cloudscape" – Color Ball pens on Primed Canvas, size - 18 x 24 inches (45 x 60 cms) Even the sky can be an object of desire with such a beautiful formation of clouds. The whole of the ground in its own way seems to be happily acknowledging the ever changing mood of the clouds.

"The Stone house" – Color Ball pens on Primed Canvas, size - 24 x 24 inches (60 x 60 cms) Someone’s dream home. The lush green lawn against the beauty of the age old stones and the seasoned wooden door is rendered in such a way that it gives us a feeling of being there. The sunlight falling on the stones and the wooden log in front are a treat to the eye.

R.C. Sharma, Chennai – India "ramesh chandra"

Diploma in Applied Arts, Govt. College of Fine Arts, And Architecture, Hyderabad Consultant to Advertising Agencies. Faculty in same college where I studied.

Select Solo Exhibitions Hyderabad Art Society Gallery, State Gallery at Hyderabad, Palette Symphony of colours gallery – Jodhpur Select Group Exhibitions Hyderabad Art Society Gallery (with N.Rai, B.A. Reddy and myself), ‘Friends Artist Group’ exhibition at Lalit Kala Academy , Hyderabad, ‘Friends Artist Group’ exhibition at Jahangeer Art Gallery , Mumbai – India, Kentucky University ( USA ), AIFACS – Delhi, Chandigarh – Graphic Print Exhibition, With Pakistan Artist Group Exhibition at college of Fine Arts gallery, Hyderabad, ‘Scribble Artist together’ at Hyderabad, International Indian Artist exhibition at Jakarta,‘Scribble Artist together’ at Kolkata, Lakshna Art Gallery at Hyderabad (with A. Yadgiri and myself), ‘Scribble Artist together’ at Jodhpur – India, ‘Chitrakala Parishad’ at Bangalore. Select Awards and Honours Hyderabad Art Society Award, Andhra Pradesh Lalit Kala Academy Award, Mahakala Koushal Parishad Raipur ‘gold plaque”, Shri Venkatshwara College of Fine Arts, Hyderabad - felicitation and honours Select Collections Salarjung Museum – Hyderabad , Archeological Museum – Hyderabad , Jaipur House – New Delhi – India Joined the computer classes to learn Designing and Painting. Today I have developed myself as an artist using the digital painting media.

Street Hawker

At Café

Please note: my medium of working is digital painting. Only two images titled blue reflection and reading are directly worked on computer like working on canvas. Other works are based on photos, converted into paintings by giving them a treatment of added of brush-lines and textures with composition and painting effects. I am using the cursor like a brush and working on the PC screen as if it were a canvas.

Blue reflection

Clouds and Rain

Empty Boat

Animal group

Meeting of Turbans

Morning Gossip

Reading

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