Art by M. R. Anand

With Navrathri festivities beginning, i thought i would challenge myself to paint nine paintings in nine days! This is the first one!...

I painted this from a reference video grab from a movie on TV.  i liked the scene because of the sparkling water and the myriad of...

Umaid Bhavan palace at Jodhpur, which is now a five star hotel.  Water colour on 400gsm paper 15 x 19 inch.

A drive during rain with all the reflections on the road and the water dripping down the windscreen to form beautiful rivulets is an...

My father enjoying the morning sun and the newspaper with my doggy Diesel taking shelter under the shade of the newspaper! water colour...

The mystic nature of waterfalls presents an excellent topic for painting.  Here i have tried to capture Hogenakkal falls in Dharmapuri,...

The exotic banana flower is used extensively in South Indian and South east Asian cuisine.  It evokes memories from my childhood when we...

May has gone by, but not the memories of the May Flower trees that lined up one of the avenues in our enclave.  Everytime i see a...

Its a golfer’s delight to tee-off at dawn.  Some of the most beautiful scenes unfold during this time.  I tried to capture one such...

This is a sunset scene of Dhruv, Advance Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III.   Mission Accomplished depicts the joy of completing a successful...

Bullock carts are synonymous with village scenes in India.  Remembering my visits to my village during childhood.  Watercolour on...

Water colour on hand made paper from a reference photograph taken last October on a rainy day! This was challenging as the reflections...

A quick watercolour study on paper …7 X 6 inches

Plein air painting of National Gallery of Modern Arts building at Bangalore last Sunday.. water colour on hand made paper 14 x 10 inch

Portrait of my class mate from school Ajay Rathnam, on his request.  Water colour on canson 300gsm paper 12 x 16.5 inch

Painted from a reference picture sent by a friend. It was interesting to try out a few new colour combinations.  turned out to be a...

En Plein Air, from the comfort of my balcony last Sunday! the huge tree is called Rain tree or 5 o’clock tree as the leaves close in the...

Visited Venkatappa Art Gallery next to museum in Bangalore a couple of times, but never painted it.  Painted from my photograph taken...

This is a painting from a scene in my memory of my school days.  Come April when the yellow flame trees are in full bloom, my school...

Chennai Central railway station, though the portals of this station stream in and out thousands everyday and is the abode for many...