Temple

13-9-18

This is basically a digital re-working of a follow-on coloured sketch from an image I made in Southern India in 1993.

We traveled around the temple belt in Tamil Nadu. Simply stacks of fantastic temples, one after the other

Manic Solo Drums

From a drawing on slate 2016

I'd seen some before, but they will always be amazing, almost even more, the more you see of them!
In terms of painting, one stood out in particular, with pilgrims disappearing into the dark or upstairs into the light.

The Weird in the Temple
The amount of deities seemed to outnumber the amount of humans.

via Sue Paten

squabble between deities

People going out, coming in, going everywhere. A complete microcosm of life going on within the temple.

View from our balcony

We settled down for a couple of months in Northern Goa and rented a room when Aydin was two.



Birthday!



I'd discovered Indian fabric paints, paint them iron them then wash them (in that order)I glued some squares of fabric down (like they do in India) on the floor in a corner by the door.

That was my original, but I was unable to really finish it off due to the nature of the paint which was unable to sustain layer upon layer.

Avudaiyarkovil

I've tried to portray this temple feel on a few occasions - you could say it was on-going. Always in my minds eye, it was a large on.

I had/have been doing a lot of computer work over the last month or more and came across the loose water colour and line image a week ago and have since worked on it on pretty well a daily basis.

One I put together in the 90's and lost for a while