forbidden palace

self portrait

watercolour and sketch pen art

portrait of mother

portrait of vijay

pencil portrait on a4 sheet,

thanthai periyar

watercolour art

Rajinikanth

oil pastel work on the a4 size paper,

watercolour art

water colour art

poppy flowers, water color art

king of the jungle...

water colour art on a4 size sheet,

rainbow flowers

water color art

watercolour art on a4 size paper.

TARKAN, turkish pop singer

Hüsamettin Tarkan Tevetoğlu (born October 17, 1972 in Alzey, Germany), popularly known as Tarkan, is a World Music award winning Turkish pop singer. He was born in Germany and raised in Turkey. Tarkan has been known for the use of sexual and romantic themes in his work and has been nicknamed the "Prince of Pop" by the media. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 29 million albums and singles sold. He also produces music through his company HITT Music, which he established in February 1997. One of a few European singers that has managed to span chart success over three continents without singing in English, the artist is also noted for his live stage performances. Tarkan's effect on Turkey has been compared by The Washington Post as analogous to Elvis in America circa 1957 and Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegün described him as one of the best live performers he had ever seen. He has also been listed by Rhapsody as a key artist in the history of European pop music, with his signature song "Şımarık" as a keystone track that moved the genre forward.

Awards

List of awards Tarkan has won during his career:

International

• 1999, World Music Awards (Monaco)
  • Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist: Tarkan
• 1999, Record Fair MIDEM (Cannes)
  • Best Selling Pop Single: Şımarık
• 2004, The Pud Award (Russia)
  • "Song of the Year": Dudu

Domestic

• 1998 Kral TV Awards
  • Yılın Şarkısı (Song of the Year): Şımarık
• 2001 MGD Altin Objektif Ödülleri
  • Yılın En İyi Pop Müzik Sanatçısı (Best pop singer of the year)
• 2001 Kral TV Awards
  • Yılın Erkek Pop Sanatçısı (Male Pop Singer of the Year)
  • Yılın Şarkısı (Song of the Year): Kuzu Kuzu
  • Yılın Videosu (Video of the Year): Hup
• 2002 MGD Altin Objektif Ödülleri
  • En İyi Erkek Yorumcu (Best male singer)
  • Yılın Albümü (Album of the year): Karma
• 2003 Kral TV Müzik Ödülleri
  • En iyi pop erkek (Best male pop singer)

flowers... still life

Raasu madhuravan sir......

portrait of sachin

Sachin Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon as well. His batting is based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality given only to geniuses: anticipation. If he doesn't have a signature stroke - the upright, back-foot punch comes close - it is because he is equally proficient at each of the full range of orthodox shots (and plenty of improvised ones as well) and can pull them out at will.

There are no apparent weaknesses in Tendulkar's game. He can score all around the wicket, off both front foot and back, can tune his technique to suit every condition, temper his game to suit every situation, and has made runs in all parts of the world in all conditions.

Some of his finest performances have come against Australia, the overwhelmingly dominant team of his era. His century as a 19-year-old on a lightning-fast pitch at the WACA is considered one of the best innings ever to have been played in Australia. A few years later he received the ultimate compliment from the ultimate batsman: Don Bradman confided to his wife that Tendulkar reminded him of himself.

Blessed with the keenest of cricket minds, and armed with a loathing for losing, Tendulkar set about doing what it took to become one of the best batsmen in the world. His greatness was established early: he was only 16 when he made his Test debut. He was hit on the mouth by Waqar Younis but continued to bat, in a blood-soaked shirt. His first Test hundred, a match-saving one at Old Trafford, came when he was 17, and he had 16 Test hundreds before he turned 25. In 2000 he became the first batsman to have scored 50 international hundreds, in 2008 he passed Brian Lara as the leading Test run-scorer, and in the years after, he went past 13,000 Test runs and 30,000 international runs.

He currently holds the record for most hundreds in both Tests and ODIs - remarkable, considering he didn't score his first ODI hundred till his 79th match. Incredibly, he retains a divine enthusiasm for the game, and he seems to be untouched by age: at 36 years and 306 days he broke a 40-year-old barrier by scoring the first double-century in one-day cricket. It now seems inevitable that he will become the first cricketer to score 100 international hundreds, which like Bradman's batting average, could be a mark that lasts for ever.

Tendulkar's considerable achievements seem greater still when looked at in the light of the burden of expectations he has had to bear from his adoring but somewhat unreasonable followers, who have been prone to regard anything less than a hundred in each innings as a failure. The aura may have dimmed, if only slightly, as the years on the international circuit have taken their toll on the body, but Tendulkar remains, by a distance, the most worshipped cricketer in the world.

sleepless......

George Harrison