Babu Oorampallil, an artist here, has for the past two years forgotten to paint with his traditional hair brush. Instead, he is more familiar with own developed air pump spray painting on canvas.
Fifty-six-year-old Babu, who is a native of Kollam district, never uses the pencil for drawing sketches or for layout on his canvas. He draws directly with his air pump spray and paints the entire painting from scratch for just a small line mistake.
He draws each and every line with his spray even the intricate designs and color mixing to match the painting is done only with this method.
The only task he has to do is to change the acrylic colors onto his air sprayer cup depending upon the work, which is a tedious job as a small change in color combination can ruin his entire painting.
With practice and determination, he has mastered the art and now Babu can draw the entire thing on his canvas in just an hour or two.
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It all started some two years back before which he used to sketch with pencil and chalk as it was his passion, when few years back he heard that spraying can be done to make a painting.
Since then he tried all his means and developed a pump with switch control and a sprayer which is controlled by pressing an electric nob.
Babu sells the painting in cheap prices ranging from Rs. 350 to 500. He is not interested in making money with each canvas but sees it as a pass time with this art work.
By pressing the pump switch, he manages the motor and gets required air to his sprayer and his thumb coordinates the movements of lines.
"I used to draw little things while I was young and during college period tried my hand on various mediums and because of great passion I started to follow a master named artist K Krishnan, he taught me all the basics of drawing during week days," Babu said.
"Just few time back I started drawing using spray painting mode and now I am finding it interesting, so I now also into drawing live with spray by making the subject sitting in front of me using the same air pump , which people are finding as a crazy idea. During my college days, I have won many gold medals for painting works," he added.
Babu has created painting of various celebrities with just seeing their photo.
Now, his desire is to master in drawing live paintings by making the subject sitting in front of him, which he has already started doing and says is an amazing experience.
Though by profession he is an engineer and had a business, but due to heavy dept everything is lost and now Babu passes his time with his passion of painting.
