Visakhapatnam artist Moka Vijay Kumar has etched his identify into the India E-book of Data 2024 as an IBR Achiever (for distinctive and noteworthy feats). He bagged the title for making 50 work of well-known personalities.
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Visakhapatnam artist Moka Vijay Kumar has etched his identify within the India E-book of Data 2024 as an IBR Achiever (for distinctive and noteworthy feats). He bagged the title for making 50 work of well-known personalities together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the late APJ Abdul Kalam utilizing millets. The certificates was issued earlier this month. Every portrait is a labour of affection, requiring hours of analysis, sketching and meticulous brushwork.

Vijay Kumar has been practising millet artwork for practically three years and has to this point created greater than 300 artwork works utilizing the grains. “By way of my work, I need to create consciousness about socially-relevant points whereas additionally highlighting the dietary advantages of millets,” he provides. The artist lately offered his portray to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravati.

His millet paintings was showcased on the G20 summit in Visakhapatnam, Telangana, and Delhi, and was offered to agriculture ministers from 38 nations. One in every of his newest works addressing ladies’s security and societal considerations following the latest tragedy in West Bengal has introduced his artwork right into a extra impactful realm.

“I at all times wished my artwork to be extra than simply faces; I need to inform tales, evoke feelings and make folks take into consideration the world round them,” says Vijay Kumar.