Introducing myself and my website

[Shankar Subramaniam]

Hello Everybody,

I am introducing myself for the first time in this forum as an artist from India, with experiences in painting, photography and animation. I am presently heading and teaching in an animation institute in kolkata, India and have been doing some experimental animation films together with my paintings.

Initially I had been doing a lot of figurative and portrait paintings and then did a series of paintings on the subject of trees. My trees were generally social entities with forms that represented human characteristics. Presently I have been doing a series of digital imaging using my photographs.

I invite you all to visit my web site: www.shankars.co.in and would be very glad and happy to have your critical opinion on the works.

thanking you

regards

[Alexandra Tyng]

Welcome, Shankar! It looks like you are an accomplished painter of a variety of subjects. I hope you will enjoy the Forum, and I'm looking forward to hearing and seeing your point of view.

Alex

[Allan Rahbek]

Shankar, welcome to the forum,
I am also looking forward to your participation here. I have had tremendous help from the members when I have posted in the critic section, and I whole heartily recommend it.
I once tried my hand on a portrait of the Indian citar player Ravi Shankar, because I like his music very much.

Allan

[Shankar Subramaniam]

Dear Alex and Allan,

Thanks for the invitation. I would be very happy to share my views from this part of the globe. Let me be very frank to confess that the scope of Portrait painting as a profession is very limited in India. What ever little scope we had had been very badly affected by the digital media. I had been always very experimental and even though I had always loved portraiture and figurative art I thought of using the trees as a motive to express feelings with more subtlety, which generally could bring about a dual meaning. There was also a sense of movement which made me seriously take up animation; to move my trees. I am now trying to look into other works from members of this forum and shall sure be more interactive. Surely this interaction would mean a lot to me to get back to figure and portrait painting

regards

shankar