Fantasia One

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

Narayanan Krishnaswamy 2019

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2019

Narayanan Krishnaswamy Author has the full right on all the photographs, designs or artworks presented here. Any part of this work covered herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks or information storage and retrieval systems with due intimation, credits and acknowledgment of the publisher and author. These artworks are owned by the author and has right of claim over them. This book uses Perpetua. The book design is by the author.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy narayankrishnaswamy@gmail.com

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This booklet of ten paintings were done from 2017 to 2019 and individual paintings had been posted on Instagram as and when I made them. I am indebted my parents, my well-wishers and family, who have believed in my creativity and in my creative instincts. Medha and Jayashree always stood by me.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

PREFACE I used to send custom designed screen-printed new year greeting cards before so many years. These cards were printed on ivory board. I had preserved some left-over greetings without disposing them for all these years. These ten paintings are made with markers, sketch pens and drawing pens. This is the result of long cherished desire to do some good quality artwork using the sketch pens. This was further facilitated by the availability of interesting varieties of pens available in the market.

It all started with the sketch pens my daughter discarded after she has grown up. I kept it and used them before they dried off.

Though time, mood and opportunity were the consideration and constraint, each piece took about six hours to finish.

The theme chosen for theses series is fantasy and I never shied away from letting the imagination fly high and indeed let it loose.

It was disciplined just by the workmanship and colours in which, the pens were available at that particular point of time.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

January 02, 2017

January 03, 2017

January 04, 2017

February 04, 2017

February 17, 2017

February 17, 2017

April 29, 2017

April 30, 2017

May 18, 2019

May 27, 2019

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Dr. N. Krishnaswamy is a design thinker and designer. He has been in the printing and graphic arts and design industry for about four decades. He has published papers on economics, design identity and design management. He is a designer, painter, teacher, sculptor, photographer and writer. He is passionate about colour , shape and walking.

Occasionally he escapes into landscaping and gardening.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy