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Deepti Kannapan

Writer, artist, engineer. Author of Fire's Ally. TEDx speaker.

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Art and Writing from Deepti Kannapan - January 2026

Art & Writing from D. Kannapan January 2026 The three "nature girl" ink drawings I made Happy January! Hope you are having a good start to the year. I started mine with some video editing. I made a long video review (with spoilers) of the movie Wake Up Dead Man. In short, I thought it was very good. That was a good chance to dust off my editing skills, just in time for editing a short film I made with my friends. More about that soon! In other news, my book, Fire's Ally, is now available for...

14 days ago • 2 min read

Art & Writing from D. Kannapan December 2025 An illustration from my TEDx talk about climate action. Happy December! I'm just coming off of 10 delightful days of drawing mammals. Bunnies, dogs, prairie dogs, and more. It was good practice for my art skills, a chance to go through my old photos, and an excuse to zoom in on cute little furry faces. You can check out the gallery of all the art I made here. And to top that off, here is a selection of my other art and writing you may have missed....

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Art & Writing from D. Kannapan November 2025 A squirrel I painted at Downtown Torrance Pride Happy November! It’s been a while since I did one of my 10-day drawing challenges. The last one I did was a study of birds. Well, to keep the theme going, I’m going to do mammals this time! it’s broad enough to roll in many of my favorite (or at least important and overdue) things: wildlife photography, cats, organizing my photos, uploading my backlog of nature observations to iNaturalist. It’s also a...

3 months ago • 2 min read