A splash of red here, a dab of white there, some fine lines in black, followed by a sweep of blue…. At the end of two-and-a-half hours, the watercolours on the white paper take on the shape of the heritage building of P Orr and Sons in Chennai. A work in pen and ink focusses on the clock tower; a sketch in pencil maps the façade of the iconic building; a pen work details the Indo-Saracanic and Byzantine features of the architecture.
Mapping the city
“Each work has a different perspective, a new take on the same structure. We map the city, sketch by sketch. That’s why we are called Urban Sketchers (USk),” says Namita Ravichandran, a graphic designer and member of the Chennai chapter.
