Tuesday 16 October 2012

Discover Bengaluru through Art, Class 2



14th October 2012,


The class was scheduled at Lalbagh, double road entrance was the location to assemble.  I was there at the entrance at 9:15am, Venu was already inside lalbagh,  Mrs.Shamala was waiting at the entrance, I told her to go inside and work,  just a minitue after I saw Mr. Natarajan, we chatted for a while, some more participants joined us.  I sent them all inside one by one  and told them to sketch.  By 10 most of them had come and some were yet to come. 

The sketching session was on the hill top and Water colour session was down near the botanical centre, they had a fantastic view of the Kempegowda tower on the hill.  

Akash Architect Seen sketching




 

On the hill top senthil took round to check what the students are doing, he corrected them one by one and told them to work more, some of them had done too much details, where he instructed them to simplify    as it is too early to take up too complicated views.  Some of them also experimented with charcoal. Down the hill Venugopal demonstrated his students, following his instruction everybody produced a beautiful landscape.  Some had doubt which was cleared to them.  


They all  had some happy moment, eating raw mangos, cucumbers  and discussed on their sketches and drawings.  The sketching session ended at 12:30pm as it was too hot on the hill.  Later I called them to join with water colour group.  Some of them continued sketching while some interacted with water colour group and Ranganath member of Pencil Jam who was also at lalbagh for sketching.



Arshi Fatima's study

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K.Natarajan seen discussing

Girija's Study of Bogan villa

Vasanth seen sketching

Venu demonstrating


Madhavi sketching a tree

Meenal Cavale's study

K. Natarajan's study

Shamala's study

Shashikala's sketch

Sushmita's study

Surendranath's  sketches

Shivarama Natarajan's study

Varun architect seen sketching

Varun architects work

Vasanth's view from hill top


Venu's demo work

Vinay's study of Kempegowda tower Lalbgh

Yasha's sketch























The days session ended at 2pm

Monday 8 October 2012

Discover Bengaluru through Art


Discover Bengaluru through Art Class 1
7th October 2012
As you all know that we have been holding regular workshop since September 2010.  I had planned the workshop for 29th and   30th September, but I had to postpone the event for 7th October.  Also for a change this time I combined sketching and water color batches together.  Hence the name Discover Bengaluru through Art,  It has a combination of sketching session where  Senthil Kumar shared  all secrets of drawing,  while V.G.Venugopal handled the Art of Water colour.   It  result of combining both batch  is more in No.s.   When in large group, participants are motivated by seeing others working and  by looking at other’s work.
Discover Bengaluru through Art, group at  government archeology museum

This time it is a large group, with 14 in sketching and 10 in water colour.  It has a combination of all age groups starting from 17 to 70yrs of age.  Some are students who have joined to enhance there skill level so that they can appear for NATA / Fashion technology, while some wanted to fulfill their passion for learning art.    The participants  are from techies, management, architects, a teacher and a couple of home makers and retired senior citizens with lot of energy to work.  They all come from different places of Bengaluru.

Sketching scene at Venkatappa art gallery
Venu with water colour group
Senthil busy demonstrating at the museum

Akash's study from the collection of Museum
Vinay Nambiar's sketch of venkatappa art gallery canteen




K. Natarajan's study
Vasanth's sketch a view of venkatappa art gallery and u b city












Shashikala's study from museum collection, Charcoal on paper
We started the session with a round of introduction starting from the instructors.  There after each instructor started talking to the participants and made them work.  Senthil Kumar demonstrated and showed each participants while Venugopal demonstrated in group and show them how simple it is to use water colour with minimal colors.   Both teachers took rounds and checked their participants and cleared their doubts.


Venugopal demo work
Senthil Demo work
While the sketching group moved inside the archeology museum to sketch the iconography, the water colour group continued with a round of sketching and coloring them.  All participants inside the museum were instructed to observe the sculptures there after a demonstration by the instructor,  this time it was quick drawing of  Ganesha with charcoal.  Each participants were instructed to choose one idol and finish them.  Some found it easy after seeing the demonstration and some struggled. 

While the group inside the museum struggled, the group outside were also struggling with their first water colour work.  Being the first class all of them experimented with the nearby plants and trees.  We ended the session at 1:30.
Vinay Nambiar's work
Nisha's study from Nature
Shivkumar's study from Nature
Arshi Fatima's study












Praneetha's study
Meenal Cavale's study from nature








 For all the participants it was like back to school with their bags packed with materials and listening to their respective teachers.  


All the participants are waiting for the next session at Lalbagh on 14th October.