tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47449163503092486242024-03-05T04:39:23.213-08:00phbbthighly onomatopoeicShreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-85681835284518284042014-11-08T09:20:00.003-08:002014-11-08T09:20:48.681-08:00A new website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have an official, proper and website-ey website now!<br />
Head over to <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.com/">shreyasrkrishnan.com</a> !<br />
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<i>(PS. I will still post stuff here)</i></div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-29945586199603765162014-11-08T09:17:00.001-08:002014-11-08T09:17:36.511-08:00Silent Sea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My piece for the <a href="http://instagram.com/mfa_ilp">MICA MFA Illustration Practice</a> Blue Show took the form of a dedication to <i>The</i> <i>Silent Sea</i>, the second album of my most favourite-est Indian band <a href="http://advaitaonline.net/band">Advaita</a>. The first time I've continued an experiment with the scratch technique I started exploring a year ago with <a href="http://www.shreyasrkrishnan.com/hidden-in-plain-sight/">Hidden in Plain Sight</a>.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFgM5qEYrThE5n4aMGQfhzURlaVcZ-2LWCBiwclWDoRROiqGrgsrvxZxZbAdql49O9PIGdE_LI7bfLohFwMUoSGmhfRADP9peuE06p1sza9GqCmA2qrnbDuaeWRYnEq-YyNckgyidppEs/s1600/IMG_20141008_015027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFgM5qEYrThE5n4aMGQfhzURlaVcZ-2LWCBiwclWDoRROiqGrgsrvxZxZbAdql49O9PIGdE_LI7bfLohFwMUoSGmhfRADP9peuE06p1sza9GqCmA2qrnbDuaeWRYnEq-YyNckgyidppEs/s1600/IMG_20141008_015027.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr83AXMQazSkdBWw0sDCMpciQBXQH9i4xp87EYMNh6pee0dwf3yIsTwhrhKSzFQ9TRvjbTHgAusGj4ZvLWX_5-EQe89k4y_LQOkvJrh0vVrHfMEjKpjNHAaXQskFDC9Gi1-7SL3ZdsdzzF/s1600/IMG_20141008_024758.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr83AXMQazSkdBWw0sDCMpciQBXQH9i4xp87EYMNh6pee0dwf3yIsTwhrhKSzFQ9TRvjbTHgAusGj4ZvLWX_5-EQe89k4y_LQOkvJrh0vVrHfMEjKpjNHAaXQskFDC9Gi1-7SL3ZdsdzzF/s1600/IMG_20141008_024758.jpg" /></a><br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-28411248055784672612014-06-27T07:37:00.000-07:002014-06-27T07:37:18.514-07:00On Astray<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://astray.in/about">Arun Kale</a> did an interview of me!<br />
Full interview <a href="http://astray.in/interviews/shreyas-krishnan">here >></a><br />
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Head over to <i>Astray</i> and check out the other <a href="http://astray.in/interviews">interviews</a> too for some very insightful question-answering.<br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-79232332203741052692014-05-10T01:50:00.000-07:002014-05-15T03:13:19.734-07:00The Small Picture: Stuck in the Middle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
New <a href="http://mantaraycomics.tumblr.com/thesmallpicture">small picture</a> for Manta Ray. Based on <a href="http://littledesignbook.in/2011/10/monday-matchbox-10-10-11/">a thought</a> from about two years ago.<br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-23072436650676797012014-02-21T06:45:00.000-08:002014-02-21T06:45:00.741-08:00Painted Postcard : 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Who doesn't love <a href="http://instagram.com/p/kmpMXZOqUw/">getting snail mail</a>?<div>
The first painted postcard to be a part of a <a href="http://blog.uditishah.com/2013/11/postcard-project.html">postcard swap</a>! Breakfast love on a postcard for <a href="http://blog.uditishah.com/">Uditi</a> :)</div>
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-57375684822586064442014-02-19T06:37:00.000-08:002014-02-19T06:42:51.291-08:00The Small Picture: B.M.O.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My first <a href="http://mantaraycomics.tumblr.com/thesmallpicture">Small Picture</a> for Manta Ray. Evidently, <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/11/hidden-in-plain-sight.html">the obsession</a> continues.<br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-66341482610729455942014-01-23T10:23:00.003-08:002014-01-23T10:27:11.363-08:00Painted Postcard: 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-60373010996347508082014-01-04T05:05:00.001-08:002014-01-04T05:14:38.895-08:002013: The year I turned 25<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This year (more like the second half of the year) has been eventful, to say the least. And all in every good way possible.<br />
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/ I now own <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6W_v4DQtNNEZhnpk3AW1_iv5KN0IHsG2SXbZh8tWmstXmjtv0vfCPFoWvm1qQHK-RBn1NEF7-sc_qNBaBaZMiUfvTlM88dGAZkeIGDLKNDiV4n4G_W2AL7g9XfRROzDRPjzmb52s3LYVk/s848-no/IMG_20130525_195205.jpg">my first Lamy</a>, thanks to P. Writing will never be the same again.<br />
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/ Someone spotted me drawing at <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2012/11/konarak-reddy-plantation-house.html">this gig</a>, and decided to <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/at-concerts-she-comes-armed-with-crayons/article4568309.ece">write about me</a>.<br />
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/ The girl gang and I finally got started with our <a href="http://7tracks.tumblr.com/">photo-blog</a>.<br />
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/ Trusha and I started this seemingly never ending, but definitely enjoyable <a href="http://kaapiandcigarettes.tumblr.com/">sketchbook swap project</a>.<br />
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/ Thanks to <a href="http://akhilakrishnan.com/">Akhila</a>, I participated in Mirror of the Open Road, where <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/08/the-wildings-festival-part-2.html">my work</a> was displayed as part of the Wilding Festival in London.<br />
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/ Rain playlists. <a href="http://8tracks.com/mix_sets/dj:1153223">Five years running</a>.<br />
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/ I made it to Kyoorius DesignYatra, after seven years (more on that later, maybe). Bonus points to this trip for the chance to hang out with other awesome designers, writers and the cutest pup.<br />
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/ My essay was published as part of an <a href="http://kyoorius.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/british_council_book.pdf">anthology on design in India</a>, which was released at KDY.<br />
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/ I fell in love with the <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/11/julley-part-1.html">skies</a> and <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/12/julley-part-2.html">mountains</a> in Ladakh.<br />
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/ I got to meet close friends in other cities, about five times – more than half of it thanks to work-travel. Can never complain about that!<br />
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/ <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/illustrated-story-of-our-lives/article5501807.ece">The Illustrator's Collective</a> (Bakula, <a href="http://kalyaniganapathy.blogspot.in/">Kalyani</a>, <a href="http://poochavandy.wordpress.com/">Trusha</a> and I) had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.720034331358889.1073741858.198719023490425&type=3">our first exhibition</a> in Bangalore. I've inflicted <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/11/hidden-in-plain-sight.html">veil-vision</a> on too many people now.<br />
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/ Kalyani gifted me <a href="http://kalyaniganapathy.blogspot.in/2012/10/indigo-crush.html">an original</a>. For me, this piece is a memory of the day that we managed to meet again after three years. Our exhibition happened <i>almost </i>exactly a year later. (@Universe, conspiring much?)<br />
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/ 15 books to read this year? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jZJLa2nKTIE426wb4qf4XEXdR5N8QSpL4Ci8N3NddzkNPANu6g5kcVcGM6K6EhnP0cRsvXgH9QheVIpUm-C5ISt2NzUuifv_3xgKEp4nL3uyLhXvfDNLEnteUPIO3ZPligbX2Gem1GvF/w773-h501-no/Screen+Shot+2014-01-03+at+2.37.09+PM.png">Challenge accomplished</a>.<br />
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<i>Here's to a whole new year full of travel, drawings, reading, music and good food. Hello 2014!</i></div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-84760611499888141842013-12-19T00:34:00.001-08:002013-12-19T05:11:05.766-08:00Baguette<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2012/01/powerpeff.html">Blossom Babykutty</a> made a reappearance in my mind last night. When one cannot control one's own loffter after thinking up this silly thing, one does not simply forget to draw it out for added...emphasis.<br />
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The <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/11/julley-part-1.html">blue moleskine</a> is my smallest sketchbook till date. The size definitely helped, given the conditions that I was drawing in – extreme sun, or strong cold winds, drawing while doing interviews and making notes (was there on work, remember), or simply on the go. That said, when I was faced with the brown moleskine, it suddenly seemed...huge.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While the Champs performance that we watched was at Chokhang monastery in Leh, the monks were from the monastery at Matho, one of the many villages and towns around Leh city. At the Matho monastery, we spent time with an amazing bunch of women from the <a href="http://www.mathomuseumproject.org/">Matho Museum Project</a>. I've always known that restoration is exacting work, and here I was able to see exactly the different techniques and research that goes in to this kind of work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While the women around us were involved in separate activities - one was touching up an old mask, another was fixing the gaps in the fabric of a thangka before she could start on restoring the actual painting, two other girls were literally counting threads on a piece of silk before cutting it to an exact specification - Nelly Rieuf, the project manager, showed us a folder that was their version of a pantone swatchbook, full of locally sourced silk and fabric samples in very very specific colours. She then showed us a box, with tiny vials of powders...actual pigments to restore paintings...malachite, lapiz, <i>real</i> gold. Mind was blown.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Below the monastery, we met some women and children sorting and tying up their harvest of barley. I behaved like the city-child that I am and picked up a couple of ears of barley while trying, in vain, to record a song that the women were singing while they worked. We were offered chai, and I realised it was salt tea only after my first sip. I was taken by surprise, but considering salt tea and yak spotting were two things on my Leh bucket list, I finished a full cup. It tasted a bit like salted caramel. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chang, the local brew, is made of barley. Tashi Dolma, the eldest of the women we met there, was a wee bit tipsy on chang and totally posed for pictures, and comparing her hat to C's.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lama Tsering Angchuk sits outside the little passage that takes us to the Kali mandir, collecting offerings of plastic bottles of oil and little bottles of rum. How or why a shrine to Kali exists inside the monastery at Spituk is still beyond me; I will need to do much reading up about Buddhism to understand. The Kali statue in the shrine was huge, and covered completely by a cloth. All we could see was eleven huge arms - six and five - that rose on either side of the veiled Kali. The only thing separating us from the idol, were lines of thin rope with rupee notes hanging on them like a clothes line. More offerings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A traditional Ladakhi kitchen in the home of the first Sonam Dolma (the names begin to repeat after a while). The kitchen is the node of the Ladakhi home, where people spend most of their day getting warmth from the thap, the traditional Ladakhi stove, or simply sipping salt butter tea through the day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second Sonam Dolma, in a village three hours out of Leh, was like any aunt, fussing over whether we drank our tea or ate the salad that was put out for us. Thankfully I had a watch on my tea, I was spared the giant spoon of butter she sneaked in to another cup.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boss and I spent quite a few days here until most of the carpets in the shop had been unravelled and examined. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">City-child behaviour part 2. I cannot explain how giggly I was to have eaten a carrot mere seconds after it was pulled out of the earth.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back in the hotel kitchen at Tangtse, boss and I attempted making momos. "Attempted" being the operative word :P </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pangong Tso. (tso is Ladakhi for lake). The most impossible blues I have <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2008/12/trains-and-travels.html">seen since the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Côte d'Azur</span></span></a>. Sadly a frightening number of people seem to know it because of the Bollywood film 3 Idiots. (There's even a shack near the lake called Three Idiots Restaurant. Facepalm).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Along either side of the very lengthy lake, are what are termed villages, but in essence are clusters of 10 houses (or less). We headed up to Spangmik, one such village, where the number of tourists and campsites far outnumbers the local population. Spangmik is the last point that civilians with an Inner Line Permit are allowed until on this side. We're told stories of UFO sightings and even a Chinese <i>pandubi</i> (submarine) that crossed over the border - the two halves of Pangong Tso lie in India and China - and threw Chinese flags at the villages along the lake. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pebbles from Pangong Tso. They remind me of the mountains and the vastness of the lake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back at the hotel, we ended our last day of shoot and interviews with Godfather beer (<i>For Sale in Jammu & Kashmir Only</i>) while surrounded by an insane number of fake plastic flowers in every conceivable neon. The profoundness that is spilling over on the book isn't an after effect of Godfather. It is one of the many, many, many quotes on signs all over the roads built on this side of the world by a wing of the army called Border Roads Organisation, or simply BRO. I call these quotes the BRO Code. More of them <a href="http://peeppeepdontsleep.com/">here >></a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last meal at our Leh lunch haunt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last evening at Leh also meant a final decision had to be made on carpet/kilim purchase. I used the boss as an excuse to happily accept an offer of kahwa, Kashmiri green tea made with cinnamon, cardamom and saffron. Heaven in a cup.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unlike the day we flew in, I did not get a window seat on the flight out. I had to grab as much as I could of the rationed last glimpse of mountain tops.</td></tr>
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Religion is everywhere, the prayer flags are overwhelming, there are prayer wheels at and monasteries at regular intervals, and yet it was never imposing or infringing (like all the other extremist religion based politics). There is a certain sense of peace and tranquility that are acquired on entering Ladakh. I think it mostly has to do with living in the constant presence of humbling grandeur like the mountains. I came back in a state of zen that I have never been in, and quickly lapsed in to acute mountain withdrawal symptoms. Ok I just made that up, but after spending 10 days seeing mountains and riotous prayer flags in every direction I turned, it was quite depressing to return to traffic and Congress/BJP posters lining the roads.</div>
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<i>Julley!</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/11/julley-part-1.html">Book 1 from Leh journey here >></a></span></i></div>
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I first went to the Himalayas when I was 16. It was the first time I was in the mountains, the first time I saw hail and snow, slept in a sleeping bag, and the first time I went ten days trekking from campsite to campsite. I have been dreaming of the day that I could return to the mountains, and it finally happened this year, higher and further up north. In September, the boss, C and I made our way to Ladakh <i>(On work. Booyaaah)</i>, in conditions much less "campsite" than my last trip.<br />
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The most spectacular 360<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">°</span> landscape ever, sun on my back, a decent stash of pens and TWO moleskine notebooks (gifts from the niece)...definitely the most I have drawn on a ten day trip.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Essential accessory to intrepidity: Ray Ban stolen from dad. <br />
The moleskines were the perfect ones for this trip. Blue and brown. Sky and Mountain. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.advaitaonline.net/">Advaita</a> love goes to a new level (quite literally). I swear <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/advaita/song/3430533-02-suspended-album-grounded-in">Suspended</a> was on loop in my head the whole time we flew over the mountains.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did I expect to see a mosque bang in the middle of the Leh market? No. <br />
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">At the start of the trip, I thought carrying two notebooks – even if they were small and smaller ones – was ambitious. But by the end of my second day (day 1 - 1.5 was spent in room acclimating), I actually began to wonder if they would be enough. </span><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/12/julley-part-2.html">Book 2 in the next post >></a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">People and their interactions, both with each other and with a space, make for some wonderful observations. Veils have a curious presence in a public space. Do they actually hide a woman or do they make her more conspicuous? Is visibility - or lack of it - a choice that we consciously make? </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are simple everyday vignettes, seen while nursing a cup of chai by a window, or as an idle passerby on the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With this set of illustrations, I've explored a technique of layering (and removing) colour and black oil pastel crayons. This treatment is something I have wanted to try out on a full illustration for a while now and the technique lends itself perfectly to the theme - an absolute black is scratched away to reveal a scene around black shrouded women, who appear to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hidden in Plain Sight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Write to me at halftonelemon(at)gmail(dot).com for pricing.</i></span><br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-9521388343674822552013-10-20T20:02:00.003-07:002013-10-20T22:39:13.837-07:00The Illustrator's Collective<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Illustrator's Collective is Bakula Nayak, <a href="http://kalyaniganapathy.blogspot.in/">Kalyani Ganapathy</a>, <a href="http://poochavandy.wordpress.com/">Trusha Sawant</a>, and me - four people with varying styles and interests, brought together by a love for narrating through the drawn image. Through an amazing chain of events (involving a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother">himym</a>-like story of how we met, too many teas, and countless emails, google docs and hangouts), the four of us are exhibiting our work <b>this Friday</b> onwards, at Kynkyny Art in Bangalore.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'My Cup of Tea'</span></i> is the first edition of the Collective, and our first exhibition together. Drop in to meet us and see some new illustrations that we have worked on specially for this exhibit, across varying media, techniques and thoughts!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Invite designed and aesthetically tea-stained by <a href="http://jontupontu.tumblr.com/">Miss Jontu</a></span></div>
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-20978567521369837322013-10-01T02:19:00.002-07:002013-10-01T02:21:30.274-07:00Creating Change: Now Online!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Creating Change </i>is now available as a digital version (for free), <a href="http://kyoorius.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/british_council_book.pdf">here</a>.<br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-90519759659465222622013-09-09T09:14:00.000-07:002013-09-09T09:14:36.836-07:00Matt Littlewood @ Plantation House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After many months, I went to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151663689433101&set=a.413825063100.191594.349612393100&type=1&theater">Plantation House</a> for the monthly jazz gigs that Shalini hosts. There was Matt Littlewood on the saxophone, Vijji Cheyyur on the guitar and Naveen Kumar on the bass. Such a fun evening. I think nothing can come close to drawing to jazz.</div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-37836475624475944612013-09-04T08:34:00.000-07:002013-10-13T07:35:43.327-07:00Creating Change @ KDY13<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year, <a href="http://kyoorius.com/">Kyoorius</a> and <a href="http://www.britishcouncil.in/">British Council</a> teamed up to offer one day <a href="http://kyoorius.com/newsletter/workshop/">workshops on design writing</a>, conducted by <a href="http://williamshaw.com/about-the-author/">William Shaw</a> across three cities - Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore. Participants at this workshop were invited to pitch stories for a book that would be released at the <a href="http://designyatra.kyoorius.com/">Kyoorius Design Yatra</a>. It has been a while since we took a break from <a href="http://littledesignbook.in/">Little Design Book</a>, and I was glad for this opportunity to indulge in writing about design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Creating Change</i> features twelve essays by designers, architects and writers, discussing design and its possibilities in India. Many thanks to Aanchal Sodhani (British Council) and William Shaw for their guidance in shaping the written pieces and Shumi Bose (<a href="http://www.stylewired.com/blueprint-beta/">Blueprint magazine</a>) , Patrick Burgoyne (<a href="http://www.creativereview.co.uk/">Creative Review</a>) and <a href="http://www.uncubemagazine.com/sixcms/detail.php?id=6955151">Robert Wilson</a> </span>for the online masterclasses.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>The book was shared with all the speakers and participants of this year's <a href="http://designyatra.kyoorius.com/">Design Yatra</a>. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Anyone with a subscription for the <a href="http://kyoorius.com/category/magazine/">Kyoorius magazine</a> should be receiving a book with their next copy too :)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Edit: The book is now available online as a free e-book. <a href="http://kyoorius.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/british_council_book.pdf">Download here</a>!</i></span></div>
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-41426805531080529082013-08-25T08:28:00.000-07:002013-08-28T03:43:17.332-07:00The Wildings Festival: Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2013/06/the-wilding-festival-part-1.html">A few months ago</a>, I participated in <a href="http://thewildingfestival.co.uk/?page_id=47"><i>Mirror of the Open Road</i></a>, an exhibition of works by 23 artists as part of <i><a href="http://thewildingfestival.co.uk/">The Wildings Festival</a> in London.</i></span><br />
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It been over one hundred years since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette">suffragettes</a> fought for the right to vote. The world can change many times over in that sort of time. But for some reason, an idea as simple as women's rights is still an ongoing struggle in many countries, including India.<br />
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The voices and actions of many women over several years has brought us where we are today, slightly better than our predecessors. Yet we still seem to be fighting the same battles. On the streets. At work. At home. These are vignettes of some of those everyday fights I see around me, where I live.<br />
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The three pieces take inspiration from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette#Colours">colours of the suffragette movement</a> – purple, white and green – and re-imagine what they might mean in today's world.<br />
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-5970936898181305132013-08-14T00:29:00.003-07:002013-08-19T04:02:39.885-07:00Singin' in the Rains / 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's that time of the year again! Much thankses to <a href="http://theghostarmy.tumblr.com/">Akash</a> and <a href="http://sushmeit.tumblr.com/">Sushmeit</a> for new music introductions.<br />
This is also the first of my rain playlists to feature music by friends – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zilpa.natarajan?ref=ts&fref=ts">Shilpa</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bindhumalini.N?fref=ts">Bindhu</a>. Go say hi.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Older rain playlists <a href="http://8tracks.com/sayerhs">here</a>.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.rainymood.com/">This might help too.</a></i></span></div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-55475731110142110932013-07-25T22:59:00.000-07:002013-07-25T22:59:48.464-07:00Kaapi & Cigarettes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://poochavandy.wordpress.com/">Trusha </a>and I are doing a weekly sketchbook swap.<br />
<a href="http://kaapiandcigarettes.tumblr.com/">Check it out here</a>. <i>Whee!</i></div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-65850426691306790012013-06-11T12:33:00.000-07:002013-08-20T01:20:00.342-07:00The Wilding Festival: Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Earlier this year, <a href="http://akhilakrishnan.com/">Akhila</a> had invited me to participate in <i>'<a href="http://thewildingfestival.co.uk/?page_id=47">Mirror of the Open Road</a>'</i> - an exhibition that is part of the multi-arts <a href="http://thewildingfestival.co.uk/">Wilding Festival</a>. The event commemorates the memory of Emily Wilding Davison, a suffragette who gave up her life for the movement a 100 years ago.<br />
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28 artists from 8 countries are participating in the exhibition, which is at St. George's Church, London. I'm terribly excited to be a part of this, and really wish I could be there.<br />
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More images of my entry in a later post.<br />
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People in London, do visit the festival! :)<br />
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<i>Mirror of the Open Road is open from 13th to 16th June, 2013. More details <a href="http://thewildingfestival.co.uk/?page_id=168">here</a>.</i></div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-17026376038008612442013-05-01T07:32:00.000-07:002013-08-21T07:43:47.437-07:00Churches and Chaaya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I spent this year's Good Friday - Easter weekend in Cochin/Kochi, with SM and her family at their beautiful new home.<br />
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In the three years since my <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2010/01/kochi.html">first visit</a> here, I seem to have lost my tolerance for sitting down to sketch in extremely sunny spots - <i><b>the yellow face... it burns our skin it doessss</b></i> - Bangalore has spoilt me whattodo.<br />
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This year I finally learnt about the Way of the Cross, although I decided to stay back at the church and draw other <i>Ammachis</i> who weren't up for braving the sun either.<br />
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The heat notwithstanding, the weekend was full of hot, sweet <i>chaaya</i>, in mugs and cups and coffee pots. Thanks to SE <i>chechi</i> and Don <i>saare</i>, we took a loooong drive to Fort Kochi, to see the Santa Cruz Basilica (which was closed, for Easter) and <a href="http://www.theindiatube.com/eat-drink/the-tea-pot?highlight=YToxOntpOjA7czo2OiJ0ZWFwb3QiO30=">Teapot</a>, a cafe I have been wanting to visit for a very long time.<br />
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I wonder when I'll next get to spend time on a breezy balcony overlooking a never ending canopy of coconut trees...</div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-16409204272094317362013-03-19T20:45:00.000-07:002013-08-22T07:31:31.506-07:00Painted Postcard : 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>For Poo, who will fly away to NY soon.</i></div>
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Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-48428595833149392362013-01-01T06:43:00.000-08:002013-08-21T08:27:05.230-07:00Kutcheri Hopping<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This year, Shoo and I planned a mini <i>kutcheri</i>-hopping session.<br />
(Our new year's eve <i>kutcheri</i> plan got cancelled though, I was looking forward to that).<br />
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The first<i> kutcheri</i> we got to was Sandeep Narayan singing at Krishna Gana Sabha, accompanied by Nagai Sriram (violin), Dr. Umayalpuram K Sivaram (mridangam) and Dr.Karthik (ghatam). <a href="http://gradwolf.wordpress.com/">Gradwolf</a> came along for this one. Highlight was having such a senior artiste like UKS autographing the drawing and showing it off to some people around!<br />
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I <a href="http://shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.in/2012/02/christmas-time-kutcheri.html">drew Sandeep</a> a year ago (accompanied by Shoo, again), and <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3CapNGOIiAkJ:shreyasrkrishnan.blogspot.com/2011/03/victor-wooten-guitar-prasanna-live.html">Dr. Karthik</a> early in 2011- this time I think I've managed to get the resemblance better. I didn't realise that until someone named all the artistes I drew without any prompting.<br />
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Sandeep's <i>kutcheri</i> was followed by Bombay Jayshree at Music Academy, but not before a quick stopover at the <i>sabha</i> canteen. Some day I will manage to get tickets/seats at Music Academy that will give me a better (closer) view of the artistes. Until then I will make the most of my balcony views.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://sandeepnarayanmusic.blogspot.in/2012/12/december-29-2012-krishna-gana-sabha.html?spref=fb">List of songs from Sandeep's Krishna Gana Sabha <i>kutcheri</i></a></span></div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-69716230570356845332012-12-09T05:24:00.000-08:002013-08-21T09:51:40.283-07:00Il Gatto Nero<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
He's suave. He's Italian. He wears a bow tie.<br />
<i>Meowr.</i><br />
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For cat-obsessed <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">P</span></i>, on her birthday.<br />
Yes, he's related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chat_Noir">the french fellow</a>.</div>
Shreyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837454651266512433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744916350309248624.post-29798823691873011262012-12-03T20:31:00.000-08:002013-08-21T10:01:48.568-07:00The Shape of Jazz @ Plantation House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151175301863101&set=a.413825063100.191594.349612393100&type=1&theater">Aman Mahajan and Mishko M'ba</a> played us music inspired by Ornette Coleman. "It is...fr(h)ee jazz..." as Mishko said in his lovely accent. If I ever catch Mishko playing again, I am going to spend the whole time drawing just him and his long long long dreadlocks (ankle length if you must know).<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">And the next time, I'll manage a better panorama of Shalini's store. I'd love to just sit and draw only the clothes even!</span></i></div>
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