ShakthiDass

Who is ShakthiDass?

Shakthi Dass, also spelt as ShakthiDass or Shakthi Das, is a 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 childwood he has been sketching and painting. He searched and found gurus like Late Ketha Samba Moorthy garu and Late Kudaravalli Nageshwar Rao garu. He was also very fortunate to be the only student of Late Vaddadi Papayya garu. Sitting at their feet, he deepened his understanding of art. 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.