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SKETCHBOOK/ Travel Sketches - India and Sri Lanka
itinerary of February
 (India) Tiruchirappalli - Pondicherry - Mamallapuram - Chennai -(Sri Lanka) Kandy - Haputale - Del Housie - Dambulla - Sigiriya - Anuradhapura - Pollonaruwa -  Colombo(India) Madurai - Tiruchirappalli  - Tanjore
        itinerary of April
        (India) Tiruchirappalli - Kanyakumari - Trivandrum - Kovalam - Samudra - Varkala -
Kollam - Alleppey - Kottayam - Kochi - Mysore - Bangalore - Hampi
 
 (India) Hampi -  Panjim(Goa) - Mumbai - Aurangabad - Delhi
     
Mamallapuram
 
       
      Chennai Airport before flying to Sri Lanka
 
          Artist, S Jayaraj In the early morning, I saw a guy who was sketching something at the airport, Chennai. I talked to him without hesitation and we spent about 10 minutes drawing each other at the gate where his flight takes off.
Haputale in Sri Lanka
 
          Bawa Guest House, Sri Lanka 13 Feb, Thursday
 
          The owner selling Gems in Bawa G.H. ,Haputale Sri Lanka 13 Feb, Thursday
Couch Surfer, Nirasha in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
 
      Back to India, Kanyakumari
 
      Back to India, Kanyakumari
 
       
      Varkala
 
       
       
       
       
       
      Kerala - Backwaters
 
       
          While all passengers were looking at a wonderful scene of backwaters out of ferry, I was sketching an engine making roaring sound standing by the fence of it. 16 March, 2014 on a ferry runs to Kanjiram jetty near Kottayam
Train Sketches in South India
 
          a train sketch / going to Villapuram, India 2 Feb Sunday
 
          napping on 3AC train Madurai -> Trichy 25 Feb, Tuesday
 
          a train sketch / going to Villapuram, India 2 Feb Sunday
 
          a train sketch / going to Villapuram, India 2 Feb Sunday
 
       
       
      Cochin
 
          My nice travelling companions :) Cochin, Kerala, India
Mysore
 
          I ask most of people I met and sketched to note their contacts down on my sketchbooks for sending prints of drawings when I go back home. I miss them a lot everytime I see these handwritings. It's the greatest gifts for me :) 24 March, 2014 in Mysore, Karnataka, India
 
          animal sketches I try to visit zoo in every place where I go if possible. 23 March, 2014 in Zoo, Mysore
 
      Bangalore
 
          State central library 26 march, 2014, Bangalore, India
 
       
      Hampi
 pAfter swimming and diving, we had different time each other.
Me and Ivan started to draw, Timo caught a fish and, Ganesha and Daria were relaxed.
It was 40℃ in the day, Hampi
 
30 March 2014
              pAfter swimming and diving, we had different time each other.
Me and Ivan started to draw, Timo caught a fish and, Ganesha and Daria were relaxed.
It was 40℃ in the day, Hampi
 
30 March 2014
       
       
          hardly moved and patient model 29 March, 2014 'Baba cafe', Hampi, India
 
              No name goat. He got no name. When Ivan and me was looking for a restaurant after riding motorbike in awfully hot weather, someone recommended us 'baba cafe' near the river and in addition he said that there is a boat there. We expected to have a nice lunch on the boat but only a goat on the yard instead of it. Nice Thali meal on the goat! a sketch diary made of the day's all events. a Mouth harp, Timo's cat, Banana peels turned into the goat's poo, lanterns in my favorite restaurant, day and night. — in Hampi, India. 29 March, 2014
 
          Pattabhirama temple, Hampi, Karnataka 28 March 2014
Panjim in Goa
 
          Panjim, Goa, Inida 04 April, Friday
 
          quick sketch with brunch at George Bar and Restaurant in Panaji, Goa
Old Goa
 
       
          Church of st. Cajetan, Old Goa, Inida 05 April, Saturday
 
       
       
          rooted to the spot, sitting in the old church smell damp and bats for 5 hours without a break. Church of st. Cajetan, Old Goa, Inida 06 April, Sunday
Mumbai
 
          For 3 days, I had to go seeing unfriendly staffs in Airtel office because of my horrible mobile sim card. Long queuing and lots of time for drawing them — at Chakala,Andheri(East), Mumbai
 
          I had a chance to see these eyes in the market, beyond chicken coop I only could see their eyes scary, nervous and sometimes resentful for me. I tried to catch very anxious feeling of it, sketched them walking among the trucks. — at Crawford Market. Mumbai, India 9 April, 2014
Couch Surfing in Mumbai
 
       
      Ellora Caves - Kailash Temple
 
          The awful sun was too hot and there were no trees to offer me shade at all, water on the paper was dried too fast before doing something. the Kailasa temple — atEllora Caves, Aurangabad. 18 April, India
 
       
      Delhi
 
          As the music started, I felt every bottles on the table was broken and merged. at club 'Aquarium', Delhi 26 April, 2014
 
          Latif
 
          the first day I met Hamza sketched him DJing really inspiring music Listen his music>> https://soundcloud.com/hamzarahimtula/hamza-gitana at club 'Aquarium' Delhi India 26 April, 2014
 DJ Hamza , in Delhi
 
27 April — at Houz Khas Village
          DJ Hamza , in Delhi
 
27 April — at Houz Khas Village
       
       
          Catching movement on sketchbook. I worked at an animation company very long time ago, and wondered how to sketch them looks like moving on a single paper, not taking some typical cartoon style . I'm studying how to make it. 27 April— at Houz Khas Village
 
       
       
          having a dinner alone at a restaurant in Delhi no one sat in the opposite.. foods are not cheap with AC nothing to do much after dinner..spending a lot of time here to sketch my menus 25 Apr, 2014
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