India - in paint

This is the mine site where my husband was consulting. (Gouache)

This painting is the property of Met-Chem Canada Limited (Montreal)

It was not an easy life for children These were done in oil	These were some of the workers building a new hotel They did not pose for me - I was amazed that the women did so much of the heavy lifting and carrying. The men broke large boulders apart and did the supervising.
Head of a construction worker (oil) I took lots of photos but also worked on site with my oil paints.	This is how the streets were kept clean. Families spent the day breaking up stones for construction - or carrying water in pails to fill a lake in a new park - without this work there were no jobs.
A quick sketch done on the street	The contrasts of India. A throne made of pure gold (estimated weight a ton) that is brought out for one day each year - and poverty as I had never seen poverty before. It was a real learning experience Shirley Chinneck