Abhik Pramanik

Bold as love: Prequel

abhik — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:34:32 +0000

I’ve started to play a lot more with color at figure drawing sessions. With the poses being at most 20 minutes, you don’t get much time to lay down the color. A combination of a limited palette and large blocks of color help me speed up the progress and, for the most part, finish the piece. This one, like the rest, is composed of Sharpie and Prismacolor marker. The difference is it’s one of the first using the technique and I hadn’t quite figured out the right color palette.

Calf

abhik — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:42:09 +0000

A chalk pastel drawing of a man holding his calf. Another one of my abstract drawings from college. The human figure was drawn from memory.

Brooding brother

abhik — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:38:18 +0000

I love drawing my brother. I can capture him on paper much better than any other person. This piece is a charcoal portrait I made of him when he was in high school. I was trying to be cool and added the feminine figures coming out of his head. I don’t think it worked with the portrait.

I love you

abhik — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:15:51 +0000

I did this chalk pastel piece in college. Women had me both frustrated and mesmerized at the same time and art was my outlet for all this emotion.

Finger

abhik — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:58:22 +0000

Another abstract drawing from college. I decided to make a drawing of my right hand by holding it up to a mirror and sketching with my left hand. I got bored with the piece and decided to experiment. The medium is charcoal

Reflection

abhik — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:25:31 +0000

This was the final painting in my high school art class. It’s pretty large (~4×4′) and took me about two months to complete. The image was taken from a National Geographic magazine and I tried to accurately capture it. This painting won me won Best of School at the Fremont Union High School District Art Show.

Alisha

abhik — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:20:57 +0000

One of my colleagues at Dreamworks had a close friend who lost her niece to brain cancer. He asked me to paint a picture of the niece and this was it. Her name was Alisha. I didn’t want to make a somber painting so I used a bold palette.

Self Portrait

abhik — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:18:17 +0000

A self portrait from a photo. This was an assignment in a drawing class I took in college. It’s a pretty big drawing, almost 4×4′ and made with a combination of charcoal and pencil. I used an eraser and my finger to smooth the base strokes and then went over it again with a charcoal stick to get sharper strokes.

Grin

abhik — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:12:52 +0000

This was my first oil painting. I completed it as an assignment in an art class I took in high school (with a great teacher by the name of Lee Akamichi). The image of the boy was taken from an advertisement in a magazine. I loved his grin, missing teeth and all. The orange background and blue-tone image was a requirement for the assignment.

Flesh

abhik — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:04:54 +0000

A drawing of a woman laying in bed. I absolutely love this drawing. When working with marker I like using a limited but bold color palette and this one exemplifies that. The combination of red and magenta really pop out the woman’s figure from behind the blue comforter.