For Dadar-based consultant architect and artist Vaibhav Soparkar, his terrace is a canvas that exudes the warmth of the sun and beauty of nature. He recalls waking up one morning in the lockdown and gazing at the blank wall of his terrace. As it shone in full glory in the golden rays of the sun, Soparkar just knew it would lend itself beautifully as a canvas. And so, armed with brushes and colours he began sketching everything that came to mind. He drew inspiration from the potted Monstera plants on the terrace, and the little birds that graced the space as well as the ones his eight-year-old son Vivaan loved, and he finished the wall art, overnight.

Artist Vaibhav Soparkar and his son, Vivaan with his wall art

Soparkar works on black and white doodles, but the lockdown inspired him to experiment with colour on the terrace. Many of his artworks are inspired by his son's love for nature, birds and insects. "One of the walls that I did was literally around some scribbles and art that Vivaan drew. Instead of getting rid of it, I decided to go with the flow and create something from it. A barrage of colours, geometric shapes, faces, insects, reptiles, birds, stars followed and there was no looking back," he tells us.