Years 1–2, 2022–24

Where it started

Charcoal, pastels, paper models, a lamp and a movie storyboard.

First year, and a bit of second. Basic design, visual arts and a lot of glue. Charcoal and pastel, Ando's Church of Light with my own 1:100 model, paper models, a lamp cut out of M-seal, a pen streetscape, and a movie review drawn as a storyboard.

011 piece

Church of Light

022 pieces

Painting and drawing

Abstraction exercise: nine pencil-shaded squares, a solid block progressively split and cut by thin white strips — Abstraction exercise: nine pencil-shaded squares.

Positive and negative space: nine charcoal-pencil squares, each with a white folded V-form cut out of the dark ground — Positive and negative space: nine charcoal-pencil squares.

034 pieces

Colour and pattern

Pattern studies: eight ink and marker tiles of stripes, contours, grids, chevrons and checks — Pattern studies: eight ink and marker tiles of stripes.

Colour in 3D spaces: soft pastel on black sheet, a 'KEROSENE' sign and stove-like forms in electric blue, white and copper (print pasted on the sheet) — Colour in 3D spaces: soft pastel on black sheet.

'Verb: Untangling': painted circle split into yellow, ochre and grey fields, crossed by a black-and-white dashed band, a curled figure at the centre, with my hand-lettered definition of the verb (after Tarsem Singh's film The Fall) — 'Verb: Untangling': painted circle split into yellow.

'Clash of the Titans' movie review for History of Architecture IV: hand-inked storyboard frames of Doric colonnades, a temple on a hill, the hall of gods, ruins and aqueducts, with handwritten notes — 'Clash of the Titans' movie review for History of Architecture IV.

042 pieces

Pen and ink

Pen perspective of two tall blocks in two-point perspective, every facade hatched in fine parallel lines, with trees in ink scribble — Pen perspective of two tall blocks in two-point perspective.

Pen streetscape elevation of a Bengaluru shopping street: shopfronts, signboards, a street light, a car and a tree — Pen streetscape elevation of a Bengaluru shopping street: shopfronts.

053 pieces

Models

Lamp made of M-seal cut in a rangoli pattern, photographed lit in the dark, beside the rangoli motif it was drawn from — Lamp made of M-seal cut in a rangoli pattern.

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Culinary Arts Institute

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