Artist of Art Palette

Name : Alpana Bhattacharjee

Age:47

Profile: I am B.E (electronics) an IT professional worked 12 yrs in various IT companies. I was always interested in drawing and painting from childhood. I used to spend hours drawing and painting as a child. In school we had a very good drawing teacher by the name Mrs Bella. She good me hooked more and more towards this field. She prepared us for elementary and intermediate exams. She was a tough task master. She used to make us sit 5-6 hours in school during holidays for exam preparation. She used to make us draw and colour still life , aster sunflower etc till it was perfect. After schooling during college and higher studies I became busy and did not have much time for drawing just quick small drawings here and there. During engineering again we had one year engineering drawing. That sir was also very strict. All the sheets and assignments had to be perfect. The white sheets had to be presented fully white with only the drawings no smudges or any black pencile marks. Name and class  has to be stenciled perfectly. All this was very irritating at time because invariably some finger marks or some smudges used to happen. But it helped in the long run. After I started working I did not have much time for my hobby. It was only after I left my job in 2004 I started painting and drawing seriously again. The more I started doing the more I got addicted to it. I started searching for some classes to hone my skills. It was during this search I discovered Art Pallette. Here Vikesh Jandial sir helped and guided me to turn my hobby into my profession.