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I am excited to announce the grand opening of Dayal Studio’s Fineline Editions, our newly designed virtual store, offering museum quality giclee prints of some of my most intriguing artwork. I will be adding more inventory of classic pieces that I have created during the last two decades of my career, along with recent fine [...]


In the wake of the Senator’s spectacular speech in Germany, my country of birth, I am unveiling my second Obama engraving. This is the first of a trilogy of portraits and will be used in a large format mixed media presidential painting I am intending to complete by the end of the year.


After waiting over 14 months for delivery our Smart Car finally rolled out at the Santa Barbara Smart Center. It is still a blank canvas but in the coming weeks it will officially be turned into Dayal Studio’s Smart Art Car Project delivering a message of fine art throughout traffic in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles [...]


These photos were taken at Continental Colorcraft, the union printer responsible for the exquisite printing of the Obama limited edition series.


The portrait of Senator Obama as it comes to live on my Kaolin coated scratchboard. After the image area is coated with black China Ink fine lines are engraved into the surface sculpting shadows and highlights….


The word is out that a second edition of the fabulous Scarpetta Wine is soon to arrive here from Italy. Originally I had been approached by Dennis Scholl, prominent Miami art collector and mega-aficionado of Olafur Eliasson works to lend one of my existing illustrations to a wine label for Betts & Scholl wine importers. [...]