Original artwork description:

In India we have street vendors and those who bring vegetables, fruits, flowers and amny more things on handcarts selling them from door to door. Something that the online marketplaces got inspired by! I have depicted two Indian vendors, one The Lotus Seller and the other The Ice Candy vendor! the regulars on our streets, very friendly, customer concious and efficient. Ordinary people, ordinary lives!

1) The Lotus vendor: This lotus vendor patiently stands at the corner of a junction, which is close to the busy Main road, everyday without fail, rain or shine, with his buckets full of freshly harvested lotuses and water lilies.

He stands there from morning till sunset selling his flowers! He is very shy and quiet, I don't know how many he sells in a day and what his take home is! Lotus ponds are in the suburbs of the city or may be someone is cultivating and he sells for them. Once I bought a few from him and kept them in the vase till they wilted.

I took a picture of him with his permission and I painted this, one day when I pass by that junction, I will show a photo of this painting to him, I am sure to see him smile shyly!

Artists watercolors on handmade paper
Size 11.3"x 8.25" comes unframed

2) The Ice candy vendor.
While in College (the early 1970s), during the lunch break after quickly finishing lunch, we three friends used to loiter in the vast green campus. Some days we would chit chat sitting on the small culvert near the gate. The elderly watchman at the gate would keep a sharp eye on the movements of the students, often chiding the ones who went out of the gate, telling them to get back and not bunk classes!!

We used to take his permission (remember, this is in the early 1970s, an all-women college) and go to the Ice-candy vendor parked outside the gate, to treat ourselves to the juicy ice candies he sold for Re.0.50 (now it is a pittance! then US$1 was = to Rs.7)

The ice-candy vendor used to park his cycle with the "Ice-box" full of candies fastened to the carrier of his old cycle. He was very particular about cleanliness, his Ice-box and the old cycle used to be squeaky clean and he carried a bottle of water to clean his hands after distributing the ice candies to his customers. He would ask us to drop the money/coins in a piggy bank-like container with a slit on top and not handle the coins with his hands, he considered coins to be full of dirt (bacteria)!! He would wipe his hands with a clean towel and at times lecture to us importance of hygiene and cleanliness in one's life!

There always was a crowd around him during hot days ( which is around 335 days a year) so he did brisk business at our college gate! I couldn't capture a photo of him, we did not have a camera back then LOL. Not like the flashy mobiles even a kid can flaunt these days!

So this is a small tribute from my memory to the ice candy man with his cycle and his own philosophy on cleanliness. I added balloons just like that, maybe, had he thought of it, he could have sold balloons too!!

Watercolors on handmade 270gsm paper.
Size 6.5"x 10.25"
Mat/mount/frame not included.

Colors of the painting may slightly vary from what you see on the PC/ mobile screen due to monitor/camera settings.

Supplementary images for reference purposes only and are roughly to scale.

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Materials used:

watercolors and handmade paper

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