First Commissioned Caricature!

Marhabba!

From the land of Muscat, Oman!

I know I've been away far too long.

First it was work, and now,

here I am in the land of 

dates and nighties, 

(pun intended, and no offense meant so kindly do not take any!)

visiting my sister and brother in law.

The past one month has been crazy!

With a bucket load of things to be shared, 

I assure you the following posts will have 

a vast array of interesting-ness on offer!

To begin with,

my first commissioned caricature!

By the very pretty and witty

Sweta Singh.

You can check out the doctor's blogs here and here.

Sadly we couldn't spend as much time together,

but with promises of a next time, 

it indeed has been a start of a new bond.

The caricature was commissioned for Doc sa'ab's 

would be sis in law and her hubby to be. 

And I must add, that all likeness is owed to her inputs entirely.

Though I do not have a picture of the couple with the artwork,

I am however going to share the caricature in progress 

till it was finally framed.

Sapna and Varun, are quite into yoga and head out to spiritual retreats,

hence it was decided that they be seated on 

Sapna's Pink yoga mat.

The overall color theme is also as pink as I could keep it,

since it is the bride's favorite color.

Varun is a lawyer and has an earphone tucked away in one ear at all times,

thus the lawyer's garb.

They're both surrounded with some of their favorite things.

Varun's penchant for big expensive cars,

And Sapna's music box.

Also loads of perfume bottles line up the front 

since both of them love them to bits! 

First Glimpse in pencil.

The color starts seeping in. 

And the detailing begins to emerge in little things such as

Sapna's one slightly bigger tooth, big eyes, and small feet. 

(I hope she wouldn't kill me if she ever met me in person)

:)

She's holding a Mic in her hand as she's a TV show producer,

and is clad in a pink saree 

(on the lines of the one she wore on her engagement

accompanied with the similar jewellery as well),

and is wearing her golden star pendant which she wears all the time. 

 Tools Used : Water colors, Acrylics, Colored Pencils, 

Rotring, Photo inks, Pencil  

And finally the complete artwork, 

fully painted.

It's titled "Love is in the air"

While "Love" takes shape 

out of the surrounding vines and leaves

"is in the air" is formed out of the 

electric wires running between two poles.

It also has two Love Birds getting cozy on them, 

while you can see the two poles on either side, 

framing the lovely couple. 

 Almost complete Artwork sans the vows.

And the final thing, with my 

signature style typography swirling around the canvas.

It was handed over to Sweta, framed and 

accompanied along with a wrapping paper and a red bow.

And I sincerely hope, 

both Sapna & Varun

would have liked it just as much as 

the wonderful girl who commissioned it!