Activities — 2026

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Exhibitions, workshops, sketches, and day-to-day moments from the studio.

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January 15, 2026

New Year, New Sketches

Started 2026 with a fresh sketchbook — daily fifteen-minute studies of whatever the morning light lands on. After three decades, the fifteen-minute constraint still teaches the most.

March 08, 2026

Spring Workshop Series

Five weekends of ballpoint workshops in Belgaum. Watching new students discover that pressure control is really breath control never gets old.

May 20, 2026

Heritage Doors Project

Began a new series documenting old doorways around the district before the monsoon and redevelopment take their toll. Twenty doors planned; eleven drawn so far.

July 11, 2026

Monsoon Light Studies

The rainy season turns the studio into a softbox — studied the way wet air diffuses light on the stone house across the street. Several translucent layers later, the drawing finally looked like the weather.

September 28, 2026

Preparing the Online Collection

Spent the week reviewing and cataloguing the permanent collection: dimensions, categories, and the small stories behind each piece. The new gallery shares them properly now.