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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

There will be an exhibition of Prof. Balakrishna's selected creations at the Pratap Gunj Club, Vadodara, India on January 16th and January 17th from 10:00am till 7:00pm. It is open to the public. Relief works, Sculptures, pyrography and pyro-paintings on wood will be exhibited.

Posted at Jan 15, 2008 by Arun Batchu | 0 comments
Monday, December 4, 2006
Last changed Dec 04, 2006 13:58 by Balakrishna Batchu

DIGITAL CAMERAS- INFORMATION AND TIPS
  
Digital cameras are fast replacing the conventional film cameras. As the images are digitized there is no development step as in the case of film camera.*  {*}Other advantage with digital cameras being the flexibility of shooting as many images as possible, for this different capacity memory cards are available. Direct editing and printing is also possible from digital cameras with some models....

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Monday, October 16, 2006
Last changed Oct 16, 2006 10:09 by Balakrishna Batchu
Labels: art, museum, indian

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is one of the top fine arts museum in USA. The museum houses nearly 100,000 works of art.The museum provides arts education for people of all ages and supports special exibitions.

The first floor mainly covers special exhibitions, children's gallery and study center.The second floor covers exhibits of Anciant Art, Africa, Asia- China,Japan,Himalayan Kigdoms India and modern and contemorary art works....

Posted at Oct 16, 2006 by Balakrishna Batchu | 1 comment
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Last changed Nov 02, 2006 21:21 by Balakrishna Batchu

(view as slideshow)
     
  Horse. Tracing   Horse: woodburning  
 

Wood Burn Art

For this art basic drawing skills are essential. The pencil strokes can be easily adopted for wood burn art. For this Electric wood burn pen with different nibs are available. The tip of the pen heats up to nearly 900F so care has to be taken while handling. Thus this art is suitable for elder group children. Experience shows that Chinese brush art can be suitablely used for  wood burn creations....

Posted at Aug 22, 2006 by Balakrishna Batchu | 0 comments
Sunday, August 13, 2006

I was pleasantly surprised that MIT's entire course work is "open" - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

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Monday, April 10, 2006
Last changed Apr 10, 2006 07:11 by Balakrishna Batchu

Flutes made, tuned and played too!!
By Balakrishnaiah
This is a simple self effort to learn flute- I hope you will enjoy.

Posted at Apr 10, 2006 by Balakrishna Batchu | 2 comments
Thursday, April 6, 2006


I have a new page dedicated to my students\ where I intend to post information about them.

Posted at Apr 06, 2006 by Arun Batchu | 0 comments

Welcome

Namaskaarams! Welcome to my website. I am a retired professor and former Head of the department of Clothing and Textiles of the Faculty of Home Science, M.S University of Baroda, India. I hail from Bitragunta, Andhra Pradesh; I moved to Baroda for graduate (Masters' degree) program and stayed on to teach. Baroda is a beautiful place and recently moved to our apartment in Pratap Gunj.

About me

I am spending my retired life, enjoying life's little pleasures. My wife , Anjali and I live in Arth apartment, Pratap Gunj. Our two sons - Arun and Kiran work and live in the United States of America. We keep in constant communication via email, instant messaging, SMS and phone calls.

Arun lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Rima; his 4 year old daughter, [Rucha] and his new-born - Aarya. Arun and Rima both are software engineers who met in college.

My younger son - Kiran lives in Atlanta with his wife, Pooja. Kiran is a GIS engineer while Pooja is a Software engineer.

My hobby

I spend a lot of time carving artifacts out of wood. What started out as a curiosity has become a passion.
How It started- In the year 1983 one fine morning I thought of doing some thing different. I took a small teak wood piece and my tools were- sharpened screw driver, kitchen knife and razor blade!. You can see my First Carving in the attachments,are you not surprised!, From that time onwards the carving activity went on. No formal association with any art schools!. I remained as EKALAVYA till to day. I added nearly 200 art works to my credit. Some of them are in USA with my sons Arun and Kiran.
My art work has been reviewed and covered by 'SANDESH'GUJARATHI DAILY NEWS PAPER.
LOCAL TV CHANNEL BARODA AND E.TV GUJARATI ALSO COVERED MY INTERVIEW AS AN ARTIST.

Textiles

I retired as a Clothing and Textiles professor and I continue to have a keen interest in the subject. You can find my discoveries and viewpoints here : Textile updates

Contact

If you are interested to know more about Wood Burning and Wood Carving fine art, please send your mail enquiries/requests to bksir2000@yahoo.com. In the near future we are planning to exhibit all the art work to Baroda public!

You can instant message me at :  bksir2000

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  1. Mar 02, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Dear Naana, Nice to see your wood carvings on web\! Great work\! Keep us posted ...

    Dear Naana,

    Nice to see your wood carvings on web! Great work! Keep us posted on your new art pieces.

    Regards,

    Pooja Batchu

     

  2. Mar 02, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Dear Sir, Prati Namaskaram.I am  proud to be  your exstudent.You are r...

    Dear Sir,

    Prati Namaskaram.I am  proud to be  your ex-student.You are really doing a great job.Please I request you to come to singapore and open an exhibition of your paintings so that we  all can see  & get an oppurtunity to meet an highly intellectual & talented person like you.

    Looking forward to see your paintings,

    Padmajashankar.

  3. Mar 03, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    respected sir, congratulations\! it was fun going through ur website and knowing...

    respected sir,

    congratulations! it was fun going through ur website and knowing u and ur family in a special way. i have spent more than an hour and still there is lot to read and see. i have viewed the slide show too. .. if u can still add some more of ur collection with details like the inspiration, time taken, satisfaction levels etc. it can made be more exciting and informative. ...may be next the general steps or the specific process u follow and tools used can be added further. great efforts  from arun's end. take care. i have also added my comments for aarya's page. regards to ma'am anjali.

    good wishes 

    reena

  4. Mar 09, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Dear Sir, First of all I would like to thank you for remembering me. I am very s...

    Dear Sir,

    First of all I would like to thank you for remembering me. I am very surprised that during my association with you I never knew what a great artisit you are? It is an absolutey fabulous collection. I think you should do more than just having it out at a website. This is just a suggestion....you can start a business of teaching this art since you have been a wonderful teacher. Dont you think this art should reach people other than your generation?

    I hope you are doing fine

    With deep regards,

    Seema 

  5. Mar 09, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Hello Sir, It was lovely seeing your site and coming across your work on net. I ...

    Hello Sir,

    It was lovely seeing your site and coming across your work on net. I feel so proud to be associated to you. I would make sure to send this link to your site across of my friends, so that everyone can have a look at the wonderful wood carving carved by you. Its lovely to see the collection here. I remember you were always busy carving this lovely wooden carving and also used to guide us at the same time.

    I take this opportunity to Thanks You Sir for guiding me through my PG and also giving me strength till today to move ahead in life.  I salute u Sir....

    Regards and Best wishes

    Your student

    Rachana Sharma.

     

  6. Mar 12, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Respected Sir, Thank You Sir. The carvings are one of a kind. I have added my c...

    Respected Sir,

    Thank You Sir. The carvings are one of a kind. I have added my comments. The first look I cld not believe that they were self taught, I should say Hats off to you with so much skill set within you.

    I am recently blessed with a Son on March 3rd, 2006. We named him 'Chetan Sai konathala', according to his star Ashwini.

  7. Mar 12, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    I happen to go through your website. It is very nice! You are tempting me also t...

    I happen to go through your website. It is very nice! You are tempting me also to go for a website after my retirement, which is not too far!
    Congratulations!
    With best wishes,
    RVKaranth

  8. Mar 16, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Respected Sir, Indeed it was a surprise for me to know about your artisitic flai...

    Respected Sir,

    Indeed it was a surprise for me to know about your artisitic flair several years after my association with you. MARVELLOUS work, that too all self taught. "where there is will there is a way" truly attributes to your efforts.

    Thanx for fowarding the link.. hope you would keep on updating it with your latest work.

    Warm Regards.

    Malini

  9. Mar 24, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Respected Sir, The pieces are so exquisitely carved and are simply marvellous. A...

    Respected Sir,

    The pieces are so exquisitely carved and are simply marvellous. A feast to the eyes. Keep up the good work with your talent. All the best for the future.

    With warm regards,

    Rita Malik.

  10. Mar 25, 2006

    Anonymous says:

    Dear B.K. Sir, I dont know, whether you will recollect my name. I am Santosh, Be...

    Dear B.K. Sir,

    I dont know, whether you will recollect my name. I am Santosh, Beena's
    husband. I had met you in M.S. University while I was in Baroda once
    with Beena, after our marriage.

    This email is just to say Hello, and also to acknowledge the wonderful
    wood carvings and your fabulous website. I was checking emails for
    Beena from my office and I opened your site from an email you had sent with
    the site address.

    I admire your work and am really happy to see your contribution towards
    art.

    Hope you are doing well and wish you all the success. Also convey our
    best regards to your Wife.

    I will surely meet you next time when I am in Baroda. Beena is doing
    fine at Nirmala Niketan College in Mumbai.

    Thanks and Best Regards,

    Santosh Vijayan.