Firstly Keki concentrated on paintings only but after 1945 his interest turned towards photography. He participated regularly in national & international competitions until 1954.Keki’s contributions in the art mainly divided as
His hundreds of sketches & paintings are in western style as well as traditional Indian & Chinese style. The media of his paintings & sketches were pencil, charcoal, oil paints, Water colour, poster colour & the base which he had used is tin, glass, porcelain & Paper. Not a single painting is on canvas.
some examples of his paintings are
- Greedy Leopards
- Jealousies tree
- Forest
- Ummar Khaiyam
- Stormy weather
- Shakespeare’s cottage
- Nature
- Jahangir & Nurjahan
- Harvest
Keki’s photographic works can be divided in 6 types as,
- Tabletop
- Symbolic pictures
- Portrait
- Still life
- Pictures of Animal & Birds
- Other type
- Faked Photography
Some famous & prize winner photographs are
- Winter
- Hawker
- The Dragon
- Split milk
- Which come first?
- Silly duck
- The murder of the innocent
- The leaves take leave
- Portrait of Nehru
- Famine
- The witch of Chalisgaon (winner of Int. salon.)
- Philosopher
- Still life
- Thirsty
- Love in Egypt
- Escape
At the age of 60, he learned origami from a book of Roberts Harbin’s ‘Origami, the art of a paper folding.’
He had made monkeys, bears, dragons, wolfs, dogs, cats, goats, penguins, cocks, ducks etc. near about 5000 pieces.
some examples of sculptures are
- External bondage
- Forbidden fruit
- Prehistoric Bull
- The dragon
- Ganga & Yamuna