Aindri 🎨 @aindri@mastodon.art

Hi Masto दोस्तों! My first post-thread about My Summer of Printmaking -Journaling 😎 🌷

I grew my own food in a small community garden at N. Avery, Caltech Pasadena

The Indian bison (gaur) of the Nilgiri biosphere.
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The #illustration shows the Blue mountains, the Shola grasslands, cloud cover, human settlements and roadways within the form of the animal. #DigitalCollage #NatureArt #MastoArt

#Wip for an illustration about animals endemic to the western ghats.

Trying to integrate the Nilgiris landscape to the form of the gaur.

Don't look at the feet (hooves?) I fudged it 🙈

Even bounty hunters have joined the protests!! 😌

#CAA_NRCProtests #Mandalorian
#CLIPSTUDIOPAINT

#মেছোবেড়াল #FishingCat #illustration #MastoArt

One of the articles I was reading when making this: How forest honey (Lotus Honey) is collected in the Sundarbans via BARCIK blog #Longread

https://www.barcikbd.org/honey-collection-and-biodiversity-in-the-sunderbans/

Here's the fishing cat (an endangered mouser from the region) which didn't make it to the final but I kind of like it

Some pages from the book: we look at different flora and fauna found in the Bengal estuary like mangroves, river terrapins (critically endangered :/) , weaver birds

I hope the pepe is not too hard to spot lol

Excited to see the first print run!

This is the firstest childrens book I wrote & illustrated last year about a smol pepe, would not have been possible without my editor Yamini Vijayan's gentle and encouraging guidance

The digital version is available for free to read in 17 different languages: https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/54021-have-you-seen-sundari

..and the print copy costs INR 40 (in English & Hindi)

“Somewhere near you, a much younger man will be gripping a school desk, as his life rockets into the void.”

#Wip #animation #printmaking #MastoArt #loop

"They would scream but, without mouths, teeth grind away inside their faces."

#Wip #animation #printmaking #MastoArt

"This was all hard-wired from the start."

#Wip #animation #printmaking #MastoArt #nowar

On 31 Aug 2019, 1.9m people became stateless through the #NationalRegistryOfCitizens.

A lot has shaped these river boundaries leading up to the NRC-"a graveyard of Indian citizenship" (Suraj Gogoi)

Now with the #CitizenshipAmendmentAct India will target & discard specifically its Muslim communities, many still living along these borders.

India should be made accountable urgently. In solidarity with the #CAAProtests!

A composition of boundaries.
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In 2016 I isolated the different boundaries from comparative maps of the ones presented by Cyril Radcliffe on 12 Aug 1947 as part of the Bengal Boundary Commission.

#WIP #Animation #Loop

Polite Safety Notice #WIP #Animation #Loop

Volunteered for a local animal shelter and drew these characters. Usually my shift was in the noon so almost everyone was zzzzzz :D

#digital #sketch #kitten #puppy