Sunday 20 November 2011

Near The Mysore Palace


As we were walking from Sri Jayachamarajendra Art Gallery towards The Mysore Palace my wife and I noticed that there were very few new buildings along the route that we took. Most of the buildings built in the style to resonate with the Mysore Palace had been retained, though they were not well preserved. One of the buildings that we walked past housed a mutt. A mutt or math is a Hindu monastic religious establishment. The sketch that you see here is of this building.
 Most of the buildings however appeared to have been let out for commercial use. Nithi made the observation that one could see a marked difference in the way buildings occupied by a single entity were much better than those rented out to multiple owners. She was right. the buildings with multiple shops were certainly run down and the common spaces and gardens around them were all shockingly unkempt. Moreover the signages were all put up any which way as each shop owner tried to outdo the others.

In contrast, the buildings occupied by larger organisations looked reasonably well cared for and the gardens surrounding them looked tended. Of course, when the time comes to get a tenant to vacate, it is perhaps easier to persuade a smaller tenant to move. But then, there would be so many of them to deal with. So I guess it cuts both ways.

One of the buildings that we passed by was occupied by a national telecom comany. I found the building attractive and this is a sketch of the cupolas over it.


10 comments:

  1. Did you actually stand and sketch these pictures from life? They are beautiful!

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  2. Lovely sketches and really like the new look of the blog

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  3. Thank you Brinda & kb.
    Brinda: Although I very much like to sketch on location, both these sketches were done using photographs that I took as reference. I sometimes use more than one photograph as reference for a single sketch.
    kb: I am glad that you like the new layout.

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  4. Fabulous sketch work, you brought to me, nostalgic memories of Mysore!

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  5. Thank you Padmaja. Mysore is such a lovely place. It was a pleasure to visit, but our stay was very short; only 3 days.

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  6. So you are back into blogging! Did you make the drawing on the spot or later?second sketches with cupolas are well drawn. cheers,

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  7. On reading other comments I realize you already answered my question. The second one is well done.

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  8. Thanks Benny.
    My home computer has not been working for weeks, and of late my internet connection has been very unreliable. That is the main reason (this time) for the long break. Usually it is just lethargy.
    :)

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  9. Beautiful drawings, very precise use of hatching. I love the sky and the trees in the top one!

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  10. Thank you Rene. Glad you like them.

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