Art of Water Colour, Class 1

16th October 2011

Art of Water colour, a 10 week workshop exploring water colour.

After a long time, I started the water colour batch.  The first class was held at Venkatappa art gallery campus. 13 participants from different fields some of them students, some from IT industry,  couple of home makers, teacher and a art historian includes in the batch.

It was 09:45 slowly each one started arriving and by 10:10 everybody had come, each one  were provided with  their kit which contained a goodie bag of water colour, brushes, books, stationaries for drawing, a container and  a water colour pencils.

Venu with participants 

Demo  by Venu

                                                            

I began the session by welcoming everybody and a introduction, finally Instructor Venugopal.V.G was introduced to all the participants.  He has a PG from CIAS, chitrakala parishat, Bengaluru.  He has taught at Jain group of institution and also at a animation school in Bengaluru.  He has showcased his works at National and Internationally.  Also he has been awarded from camlin art foundation, Lalit kala academy and lot of private organisations.

Venu took over the session by introducing all the participants with the basics of water colour and its quality, he also introduced them to colour theory which is essential for the further progress and also a briefed about the quality water colour paper availabe in the market.  Further, he  demonstrated how to use colours and handle the brushes.  The session went on till 12:00 noon. Since we wanted all of them to practice for the day we let them to do the same.

Sanjana, Roopa,Urvashi   Seen painting

Poornima seen painting 

 Seheli's painting Venkatappa art gallery canteen

                           

                                     Poornima's bamboo tree

  Demo landscape by Venu    

   Shilpa's View of Archeology museum

                                               

All of them scattered and started painting, some selected architecture, a couple of them tried the lilly's pond,  bamboo  and other trees which are in abudent at Venkatappa art gallery.  This went on till 1:30 and slowly they took the correction from Venu,  It was 2'o clock when everybody left for the day.

Also before leaving some of them visited the gallery and enjoyed the work of K.Venkatappa.