Book: Sameera Kalupahana’s Drawings

Second part of the series - Pencil Techniques. The book gives complete information on different types of pencils such as charcoal pencil, conte pencil, glass marking, colour pencil, pastel pencil and watercolour pencil. Rahul Deshpande and Gopal Nandurkar have a great mastery over the pencil medium. Their demonstrations and picture gallery explain every aspect of this medium.

Vasudeo Kamath, winner of the Draper Grand Prize of the Portrait Society of America, brings to fore his understanding of the subject and his teaching skills as he explains the techniques of portrait painting through various examples. His instructions, as he takes the student through the steps of Pencil, Charcoal, Monochrome, Tricolour, Colour is sure to be of great help to students.

This book contains various methods and techniques of picture making with the help of a graphite pencil. There are instructions on how to use the modern types of graphite pencils. The picture gallery features a variety of subjects.

Senior artist Maruti Patil, after having many awards to his credit still loves sketching. Here he shares his thoughts and working methods of sketching and drawing the human figure, a subject most budding artists find challenging.