07/11/2025
Artwork finished alert !!!
After spending about twenty months on the drawing board – from April 2024 to November 2025 - I can now proudly announce that I have finally been able to finish my latest artwork ‘Land of Happiness’ ! During these twenty long months, it was not that I could devote time on this every day. There were days when I couldn’t touch the artwork due to other preoccupations or when work needed me elsewhere. Then there were times I felt like starting another artwork, but then decided not to do so for fear of not being able to return back to my Land of Happiness. Now that I have achieved my milestone, I would certainly miss my quiet moments lost in those greens, blues and yellows and the grey mist enveloping the valley!
So while I lift the curtains on my latest work, I would like to draw your attention to the myriad details that the valley hides. This is the Phobjika valley in Bhutan – nestled high up in the hills with green meadows stretching for miles. As the mist lifts off, the valley emerges. Cows graze in the foreground and narrow paths meander through the grassy meadows far into the hills. Coloured Buddhist prayer flags flutter in the wind, and if one hears closely, one might even be able to imagine catching faint notes of buddhist chants wafting in from somewhere near those foothills!!!
Enough of my ramblings for now! More on my next post, which shall be a reel on the completed artwork! Until then, I would sure love to hear your thoughts! All of them!
Thanks for watching !
Title : Land of Happiness
Size : 10x15 inches
Paper : Lanaquarelle Hot Pressed Smooth Watercolour Paper
Colour Pencils : Faber Castell Polychromos, Derwent Lightfast, Caran d’Ache Luminance
Copic multiliner black 0.01 in places.
Reference : Own photograph.
