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chamindika

www.chamindika.com

About Me


I'm a Sri Lankan American visual artist, you can see more of my work at www.chamindika.com
I use mainly oil pastel and I do some collage stuff as well. I wanna do more 3 dimensional stuff too, like puppets, dolls and installations, I guess I feel like it's time to bring my characters to life, maybe even some animation!.....
Phoebe wearing my hoody! photo by BFresh Photography
this is a piece I started working on this week..started it back in september and finally finishing it! goes with the piece below it that I finished last fall
pic of my bro wearing one of my t-shirt designs....
.....If you're interested in buying one of my tshirts click here... www.chamindika.com
new mural i'm workin, i'm only doing a few characters this time and the rest is more design stuff, this mural's also at pi, piece is black & white, gonna add red for the background
finally started on the red background!
did my first mural ever in january in collaboration with my friend kim for a dope new bar called Pi....
click this line to link to my website where you can purchase my shirts, posters, cards and originals at www.chamindika.com
with my bro vacationing in san diego.......

My Interests

click here for my website:

www.chamindika.com

Music:

all kinds!

Movies:

films by miyazaki, makoto shinkai and wong kar wai, brothers quay short films, the host, iron monkey, crouching tiger, new legend of shaolin, eternal sunshine, hero, once upon a time in china (esp. 2 and 3!), enter the dragon, tears of the black tiger, chunking express, shaolin soccer, kung fu hustle, films by wes anderson, metropolis(anime one), infernal affairs I, ong bak, tampopo, amelie, delicatessan, trust, legend of drunkenmaster, life is sweet, cowboy bebop, matrix I, animatrix, lord of the rings trilogy, garden state, city of god, eat drink man woman, fist of legend, woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, y tu mama tambien, pootie tang, bourne identity I, finding nemo, room with a view, sense and sensibility

Television:

freaks and geeks, cowboy bebop, samurai shamploo, chapelle show, simpsons, lost, that 70's show

Books:


favorite mags:giant robot and fader..... books by haruki murakami (especially wind up bird chronicles and elephant vanishes!), rohinton mistry, toni morrison, james baldwin,bell hooks, neruda, rilke, rumi, agha shahid ali......cereus blooms at night, floating world, grand avenue, dogeaters, god of small things, zami a new spelling of my name, shipping news, passport photos, karma of brown folk, persepolis 1 and 2, epileptic, earth sea trilogy, lord of the rings trilogy

below here is sketches I've done..normally I do a whole drawing on paper, but sometimes I have random sketches that i collage onto a bigger drawing I'm doing, either way, this is how I start drawing all my characters, just the black outline first and then I color in.....thought I'd let you see my process...I just put these on my wall and took the pics, someday you'll see these on a finished piece!...