The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Visakhapatnam News : Portraits are her forte

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Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
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Portraits are her forte

B. Madhu Gopal

Artist Preeti Dugar with her portraits and pencil sketches in Visakhapatnam.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Just 18 months into painting and she has already mastered the art. Portraits and pencil sketches are her forte and she gives full credit to her teacher, the noted artist Dwaram Jagannadh Babji for ‘drawing’ the latent talent out of her.

Preeti Dugar whose interest in the art began late, says that somewhere inside her there was always a passion for painting. “Learning pencil sketches was the foundation to become an artist and doing portraits is the toughest part,” she feels.

While in a landscape or modern art one can add or withhold minute details but those who watch the painting would not know the difference. On the contrary even the minutest deviation in a portrait is noticed as a person would compare it with the original image.

Preeti has so far done about 60 pencil sketches and 15 paintings in different media like water colours and pastel works. Her portraits include Lord Krishna, Jesus, Swamy Vivekananda, yesteryear film star Madhubala and noted singer Lata Mangeshkar. A pencil sketch of a polio-afflicted girl standing on her legs as her crutches lie on the ground, shows Preeti’s imagination and concern for the polio patients. “It shows the girl’s will power to stand on her own feet,” she says.

She has done a three-foot modern art painting for a shipping company in Singapore recently. She gifted a family portrait of dietician Anuradha Reddy and her family and presented it to her on the 10th anniversary of the Diabetes Foundation of Visakhapatnam recently.

Apart from art, Preeti is also into acupressure, Reiki and Sujok therapies. She learnt them from Reiki practitioner Salma Mehdi.

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