We love theme photography, and one of our themes are the street artists of Italy.
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Tags: artist, bologna, caricature, caricaturist, florence, italy, living statue, milan, painting, street, street artists, watercolor painting

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A few decades back, Onam, the Kerala festival was celebrated in memory of the mythical king Mahabali. In the present scenario, it has turned out that Onam is more of a celebration in memory of those bygone decades and onam celebrations of the past.
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Tags: attire, bharathapuzha, black and white, english seminar, festivals, festivals of india, flower, flower carpet, japanese school, japanese school girls, kerala history, mahabali, mamankam, newspaper, onam, onappookkalam, oonjal, painting, perspective, plywood, samoothiri, sapporo, swing, thiruvonam, tradition, zamorin

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We have a pregnant seahorse at home! At our last week. So expecting any time!

Do you know that In the real world, seahorses mate for life and that it is the male seahorse which gets pregnant! The female lays its eggss in the brood pouch of the male, which is then internally fertilized and carried until the young ones emerge.

Tags: family, fish, mating, mother, painting, pencil sketch, pregnancy, pregnant, sarah, seahorse

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Celebrating our first wedding anniversary (27 August)

Watercolor painting reminiscent of our basketball games and a snapshot of the photograph from Riola.

At Riola, near Bologna, Italy.

Tags: anniversary, bologna, family, first wedding anniversary, painting, rocksea, sarah, watercolor painting, wedding, wedding anniversary

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Watercolor painting of an Indian Treepie, also known as Rufous Treepie, dendrocitta vagabunda.

The head, neck and breast of Indian Treepie are a deep slate-grey colour, sometimes slightly brownish. The underparts and lower back are a warm tawny-brown to orange-brown in colour with white wing coverts and black primaries. The tail is a light bluish-grey with a thick black band on the tip.

The Indian Treepie is extremely agile while searching for food, clinging and clambering through the branches. Its acrobatic dances on the coconut palm leaf (ola) has given it the name olenjali  in Malayalam.

Original photograph of the Indian Treepie, by rocksea, used for the painting :

Tags: birds, birds of kerala, dendrocitta vagabunda, indian treepie, olenjali, painting, rufous treepie, treepie, watercolor painting

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