Hi Everyone, KA here posting on behalf of dear Arindam. Enjoy!
Hi,
best wishes to my dear artists and friends.
here i am attaching my teaser. sorry for getting so late. i had to go through some natural and some other problems. i could not start and finish in time. i understand the excitement of the artists waiting for the travelling sketch book. it is now on its way to UAE.
as i did not submit the about me topic before, i am telling something now.
i am a self taught artist. i have never visited an art school. i started my schooling in Calcutta. I had my high school studies in Chandannagar, and also the graduation in Accountancy ( though i did not like the subject ) from Chandannagar Govt. College. this place inspired me a lot to play with pencil and colours. the city has a historical value. once upon a time Chandannagar was a French colony and there are old buildings, old-church, strand-road beside the river. all these told me to scratch on paper and i started. as i had no technical training i followed the artists wherever i saw them. i followed everything they did. i followed how they mix colours, how they move the brusses. this went on. after a few years some children came to me to learn the basics of drawing. i became a little popular among the children of my locality.
later on an ad agency called me to join as designer. i worked there for a couple of years doing graphic designing in computer. this time also i taught myself in creating and handling a design in computer . actually the training courses were expensive and unaffordable for me. now i am a freelance graphic designer and i work from home.i love my job. i keep on practising pencil works too. i have two blogs showing some of my works. those are, www.arindamart.blogspot.com and www.aritoons.blogspot.com .
as subject of drawing i have always loved the people around me. i love reading the dimensions of human character and the studying the expressions that come out on face . i love children. i want to do something for the street children. i am worried about the future of the children playing beside the road. so in my travelling sketch book also i have worked on a street child.
i wish good luck to this book and the great project.
love,
arindam goon ( india)
