Happy Diwali !

video compilation of aerial paintings, airplanes, airports, terminals, runways...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZwvoSG-Vo

a link to the latest video including a compilation of drawings and paintings from travel scenes of airports, terminals, runways and airplanes...drawn and painted with a variety of apps on the digital tablet...

Meeting with client from India...

A first day meeting with the client from India, a review of the presentation materials on the screen and layers of drawings pinned to the fabric panel walls...drawn with adobe ideas on ipad...

Video of India iPad paintings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge0Nl-05x54&list=FLW93Frl0UT0jIf0Xpp5SI2A&feature=mh_lolz

a short video slip of the scenes from the India trip, a mix of four apps including artrage, procreate, adobe ideas and sketchbook pro...

Bangalore 3 wheeler and palm

In the area of Whitefield, Bangalore, a three wheeler, a palm tree and darkness...

Painted view from Alila Hotel, Bangalore

A painted view from the 4th floor level of the Alila hotel, Bangalore, India...looking south over the vegetable fields and palm tree landscape, a rare view in the city of Bangalore...painted with stylus on ipad 

India Gate, a closer view

The main path is known as the Rajpath and connects the India Gate to Rashtrapati Bhawan.  Following India's independence, the India Gate became the site of the Indain Army's, Tomb of the Unknown soldier, known as Amar Jawan Jyoti ("the flame of the immortal soldier").

India Gate, the monumental arch by Edwin Lutyens

So much to say and not to say about this monument, especially because I had forgotten my architectural history lessons on Lutyens and the great civic works...but it was site to behold and well within the realm of dreamed and forgotten but alive and flourishing architecture...

The map of India, places that I visited in the week of the journey...

First stop was New Delhi, then a quick flight to Mumbai, a jump on Indigo airlines (cool) down to Chennai (formerly Madras) and finally 30 minute flight to Bangalore for the last leg of research, before jetting to Dubai and back to California...

Connaught Place, Delhi, Edwin Lutyen's great circle and plans

Was fascinated and intrigued by the scale of the circular plans of Connaught Place, also known as CP Delhi, and also as Rajiv Chowk, and this perspective sketch shows the section through the double height shops and the colonade and parking areas.

On the first stop to India

An early early morning transfer and wait within the cavernous spaces of the new Dubai International terminal building, a quick sketch of the interior space...