Aarti Karwayun Chawda

Stumbled onto Aarti's work via Artnlight: an incredible design blog, loved these collage/decoupage pieces by the artist. Aarti created these works from a vintage photography book that belonged to her grandfather.

"This series of mix media illustration is my way to connect things of the past and share love for "all things vintage" with the world. Old stories of simple, joyous things like Bicycles, Typewriters, Vespa, Cassettes find new expressions on my grandfathers old books from 1940s.

I have tried to bring these old things to life by adding real 2D elements like dried flowers, an unfinished poem on a real paper stuck to the typewriter, an old cassette tape with the reel pulled."

Amrish Kondurkar

"After passing out of the Art College, I’ve been in advertising for 7 years thinking and executing campaignable ideas to the specific needs of a brand. While working on designs that are comprehensible and communicate to a large audience I started getting drawn to the abstract thinking process too. I expressed this by experimenting with my photographic and drawing skills in my free time. I started enjoying the forms that travel and take their own shapes, which made me explore and experience further the new dimensions of the graphic language. In all of this i started blogging! which made me think everyday something quirky and break the rules which you yourself restrict by your own limited way of looking at certain things.....and yes still very much exploring :)"

http://meraapitara.blogspot.com/

Sachin George Sebastian

A quick recipe from Paper Engineer Sachin George Sebastian


Ingredients:-
1)paper                - 1 table full
2)glue                  - 1 bottle (500mg)
3)scissor              - few sharp cuts
4)paper cutter       - 1
5)blades               - 1 handful
6)cutting mat        - 1 table full
7)concepts           - few thoughtful
8)client brief          - if necessary
9)time                   - depends on 7 & 8
10)love&patience   - unlimited


Process:-

Step 01
-Get the concepts (client's brief) washed and cooked for few days/weeks just to make things clear in your head. Add a lot of love at intervals for better results.
 Step 02
-Once  the concept is ready, try out cutting few small paper with scissor to get a basic draft on what to make. This step doesn't need any detailed cuts, but all elements should be cut in place. You will end up in a white dummy.
Step 03
-Now that the white dummy is ready, mix the step 01 on to few big sheets placed over the cutting mat. Use a paper cutter with sharp blades to carve out the details. This process can go upto few weeks/months. so u need to keep the patience throughout this step.

Things to remember:-

-Never loose your patience.
-Keep referring back to the step 02 and feel free to add more details at any point of time.
-Don't forget to change the blades occasionally.
-Keep your hands washed and dry every 45 min.
-Cutting mat should have only the main artwork at any given time.
-Rest of the small paper chops to be dropped off the table (not in the bin for now ).
-You must be now finding yourself surrounded with paper chops all over the room.
-In the end, that cutting mat on the table, carrying your latest creation, will answer all the questions you had for your patience.
-Surprise yourself, keep smiling:)


The last instruction is the most important! More Sachin, here. 

Alexander Kori Girard

Found these incredible mixed media works by American artist Alexander Girard via the superb fly . I'm tempted to do this to the thousands of old photographs that are gathering dust in my grandparents' home. More here.

Sukanya Rahman

Some very eye catching shadow boxes and mixed media pieces from danseuse and artist Sukanya Raman. Loved reading about her illustrious  life. More loveliness at her website . 

Manjula Padmanabhan

I guess I take pleasure in the simple things. I kind of love these. The last time I featured this fabulous lady , she was making Elephands. How can one not love her? Go say hi.  Images from here (great link) 

Aarohi Singh

I am in Kerala , stuck with no internet so this has to be speedy ! Check out Aarohi's exhibition from the 21st - 23rd of Nov at the Leela Galleria , Banglore. More info at her website.

Shreyas Karle

"Shryas Karle uses absurdity as a metaphor to reflect social situations. He humorously mocks the ironies of reality. Subjects are converted into ideas that are conceptualized into projects. He seeks to involve the viewer to participate in his work; encouraging their own thought filtering process." Cute. Karle works from Bangalore. More here.

Vinod Dave

Born in a small town Chital, Gujarat ; Vinod Dave did his graduate studies in painting from the M.S University,Baroda. Later , he moved to New York City & made it his new home. Dave's paintings reference Bollywood kitsch, comic books and the gods and goddesses whose images are found on common objects such as matchbooks, firecracker boxes, beedi cigarette packs and gaudy religious posters but with deeper spiritual undertones. He also writes extensively on art and is a prolific curator. More of his works on his blogs here & here.

Somapala Pothupitye Acharige

Pala Pothupitia grew up in a family of traditional craftsmen and ritual dancers in Deniyaya , Sri Lanka . Potupitya’s art is decorative and exotic. His works, though they are composed of very common and everyday kitsch material, are completed visual entities which present a sense of being recherché. This changing play of visualities is what makes his works ‘work’.

On one hand, they look like the headgear of ancient and traditional dancers, but closeup they are made of everyday kitsch . When these contradictory and competing visual metaphors are placed in a backdrop made of images of lions – as found in the national identity cards of the citizens of Sri Lanka – the entire visual text transforms itself into a comment/ critique on modernity, modernisation and being modern; or rather on the dilemma of being modern in Sri Lanka. from here.

Ravikumar Kashi

Ravikumar Kashi was born in Bangalore in 1968. He completed his M.F.A. in Printmaking from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda in 1990. In 2001 he studied handmade papermaking under J. Parry at the Papermaking Resource, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow. The sculpture “Books” is a set of 30 books cast in paper pulp with text and images. “Painting has a different language. The medium of paper is personal and it allows you freedom. You also associate paper with writing which is why I chose to do paper sculptures,” says Kashi. Images from here.

Sangeeta Sandrasegar

Sangeeta Sandrasegar was born in Brisbane of Malaysian and Australian parents and has lived for most of her life in Melbourne.In exquisite wall-based cut-outs, which are often adorned with glitter and throw fantastical shadows, Sandrasegar revels in combining florid and erotic tales. Her sources are as diverse as traditional Indian miniatures, Japanese anime and contemporary political narratives. More here & here.

Akhila Krishnan

Akhila Krishnan is a visual artist and designer, who lives and works from Ahmedabad.
420 is the name of her brand, under which she produces eclectic works that reflect her various influences. Her first is a series of postcards called Pairs of Shoes, that are produced using digital and screen print as well as rubber stamping. More here.

Ruby Chisti

Ruby Chisti is one of the many Pakistani artists on the rise. Her soft sculptures , fashioned out of cloth , canvas , straw and cardboard. In an interesting way , she challenges the norms of art and art as an institution playing the hierarchy of sculpture and what it is usually made of - stone and wood.