The Inspiration Tour

Sonu sketching at Humayan's, Tomb Delhi

Sonu, the young would-be artist from Kiran Varanasi joined Ashok and I in a grand inspirational tour in hot, hot Delhi on Saturday.  Driven by Sushil (in the picture above watching Sonu) we started off in the very early morning in Humayan’s Tomb.  Sonu sat quietly sketching the Affiser Tomb in the lovely gardens whilst I watched the birds and enjoyed the many varieties of trees.   

"Affisar Tomb" is what Sonu was sketching then

Meanhwile Ashok, our design intern from Bethany, practiced using the macro lens on the camera…a first time for him.

Whilst Sonu sketches Ashok clicks with the macro lens

Then we moved on to AkshadamTemple, a new temple in Delhi that is an absolute marvel of stone carving.  We were not permitted to take pictures but I am certain that Sonu would have been inspired by the beauty of the place and the quality of the work.  Ashok and I were certainly taken by a beautiful carved image of a young woman asleep under a light sheet dreaming of elephants, all carved in stone.

 Then we finished our tour in the welcome cool of The Museum of Modern Art which was three floors of inspiration.  Sonu was particularly taken by a few pictures and whilst again we could not photograph anything there was a sense that he had the ideas in his head ready to try out.

 It was a lovely time and for me a great pleasure to accompany two very enthusiastic young people.

 Today Sonu is sketching/painting again and I am hopeful that he will let us use his images for screen printing onto some cotton bags for sale in our Delhi shop.

This is what Sonu is sketching today