Drawing-18

An old artwork

 

Large sized free brush drawing

I did such this type of free hand brush drawing (black & white) on treated cloth which stretched on a canvas frame. I used earth bed pigment  that treated with synthetic gum and I painted on a home-made gesso coated surface. Since it was water-soluble, so I could manage the color treatment from lighter tone to darker tone as if it was a water-color technique to build a picture. To me it was mostly interesting to do the brush drawing very smoothly also freely!

Nilotpal Sinha     The police and the woman     Treated pigment on cloth     60″ x 72″ (app.)     1995

 

Drawing-17

An old artwork

 

An old ink drawing

Simply this drawing is digitally processed very recent that I did on a grainy brown board in 1997. I was then much interested and habituated in free brush drawing on paper, board or coated canvas, basically the targeted area was landscape.

Nilotpal Sinha     Untitled-1997     Ink on board     6″ x 7″ (app.)     1997

 

Drawing-16

An old artwork

 

A charcoal drawing…(5)

Now I have placed another charcoal drawing perhaps that I did in mid 90s; use of casual strokes and free-flowing lines I adopted from the art of marginal (“Patua(s)” – actually they are traditional painters and have a traditional schooling but too much extent they are off-centered in social status and truly not accepted as high-profile artist as like as urbanized and educated artist from the authorized art institution, although they have major supports by the state promotion including the art venture acted by the private entrepreneurship). I was then become very much influenced by them as suggested as an alternative art practice by the large numbers of urban artists at that time and hopefully that was running during a decade. Many buyers and collectors were well concerned to this modernist practice to collect huge number of artworks from the artists of India.

Nilotpal Sinha     Untitled-5     12″ x 14″ (app.)     1990

 

Drawing-15

An old  artwork

A charcoal drawing…(4)

The charcoal drawing I did in the same period in the same way that I have mentioned in earlier posts. Charcoal is an interesting medium to me and I use it as an effective medium still today! For a mixed media practice it is very much helpful to develop the pictorial quality and black & white character though it requires a proper fixation for preservation in future. Today a smooth & soft  compressed charcoal is available in the art material shop but the wood-charcoal have a more flexibility to play on different kind of grainy or smooth papers than the compressed charcoal.

Nilotpal Sinha     The head     Charcoal on paper    12″ x 14″ (app.)    Year-unknown

 

Drawing-14

An old artwork

 

A charcoal drawing…(3)

Nilotpal Sinha     Untitled-4     Charcoal on paper     20″ x 30″     1990

 

 

Drawing-12

An old drawing

A charcoal drawing..

Nilotpal Sinha      Untitled      Charcoal on paper      20″ x 30″      1990