Shakthi Dass, also spelt as ShakthiDass or Shakthi Das, is an Indian painter, sketcher, and wrapper artist for children's magazines, comics and newspapers for the last four decades.
Shakthi Dass is a passionate artist.
Since early childhood, he has been sketching and painting.
He is versatile and can create art works in a variety of styles.He has been sketching nonstop professionally for the past 4 decades.
He has freelanced for many Indian magazines like Bommarillu, MVS Novels, Balabharathi, Rishi Peettam, Bujjai, Chinnari, Balamitra, Chandamama, Rotary News, Vijaya Publications and Oriya Vijay.
He has also done thousands of paintings for international publications and office and industrial settings.
Shakthi Dass believes that anybody can be a reasonably good painter.
He is a passionate teacher and especially loves teaching children.
He is running an art institute in Kukatpally where children up to the age of 13 are taught painting.
As a teacher, he is sensitive to the difficulties faced by a beginner.
Hence he has also developed revolutionary techniques by which people can be guided in simple, enjoyable steps to achieve a high skill.Another passion of Shakthi Dass is writing stories.
His stories stem from his deep understanding of life and the world at large.He started Chandrabala Publications with a vision to educate and entertain the world with the right values and knowledge.
He intends Chandrabala to be a platform, a fulcrum for talented writers and artists.
He is the founder of Aayurveda Sanjeevini and Chandrabala magazine in both English and Telugu
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Shakthi Dass can draw 100 illustrations in six hours and is under consideration by the Guinness World Records.His vivid paintings range from oil paintings, canvas, watercolor, acrylic, glass, and pencil covering abstract, figurative, cartoons, and realism arts.
His unique skill is in sketching with pencil and then with brush or directly with brush without using a pencil sketch layout.
He is known for conventional, unconventional and acrylic works in expressionist and cubist styles.