Vidya Balan

Once sensibility and sensuality together as a bundle makes a departure from that demure beauty named Smita Patil, it makes a pause in the twinkling eyes of this Malayali actor. She stands tall on a terrain where Bollywood has yet to catch up with...

This sketch is done in HB, 2B, 4B & 6B pencils from Kohinoor. (Tailpiece: Every Indian artist loves those rough, slender V Perumal Chetty Kohinoor pencils with it's extremely brittle lead. Tama googled up an article recently to tell me that Perumal Chetty pencils had a sad demise 6 years ago... Still, at Shiv Shakti Complex, BHU, Lanka, Varanasi the pencil is very much available... If they are duplicated, they have managed to clone that same brittle lead...!!!)

Kate Winslet

This sketch in charcoal was done at a go flat out when one of my friends required a black and white sketch to be put in his Internet cafe. Done in a little over four hours, i retained the rough edges at the bottom to capture the beauty of space left blank on the paper.

Tailpiece: My friend Nishant had asked me to give Kate of this sketch a bindi (pottu). I laughed it off as "gross...!!!" Later I got to watch the movie "Holy Smoke" in which Kate Winslet acted draped in a saree and sporting a bindi... Still, I decided to let her ocean-calm forehead just like as it is... calm...!!!