Discover Bengaluru through Art

Discover Bengaluru through Art Class 1

7^th October 2012

As you all know that we have been holding regular workshop since September 2010.  I had planned the workshop for 29^th and   30^th September, but I had to postpone the event for 7^th 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 14^th October.

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Art Classes in Bangalore from June 2013

Discover Bengaluru Through Art

Discover Bengaluru through art. Using pencil, charcoal, Ink and sketch book, explore interior space, atmosphere, light and the human figure, while learning basic drawing skills.  First class will be at museum and will go over the basic fundaments of life drawing.  Each class there after will meet at various sites in Bengaluru City.  Once registered, students will receive information regarding meeting locations.

All Secrets of Drawing, a workshop on sketching and drawing

10 Sundays at 10 different locations exploring Bengaluru through sketching

Timings: 10 am to 12:30 pm 

fee: 5000/- includes materials and entry tickets to museum and lalbagh

Schedule of the workshop

1	07-07-2013	Venkatappa Art Gallery (Introduction)	10am to 12:30pm
2	14-07-2013	Lalbagh (study from nature and Introduction to rapid sketching)	10am to 12:30pm
3	21-07-2013	CKP (study of landscape  and Head study)	10am to 12:30pm
4	28-07-2013	Lalbagh (study of trees and texture and human study)	10am to 12:30pm
5	04-08-2013	Cubbon Park CKP (study of perspective and human study )	10am to 12:30pm
6	11-08-2013	Tippu palace / Minto eye hospital Study of Architecture	10am to 12:30pm
7	18-08-2013	Jayanagar city square	10am to 12:30pm
8	25-08-2013	Gandhi Bazaar Market	10am to 12:30pm
9	01-09-2013	Bus stop	10am to 12:30 pm
10	8-09-2013	Eid ga Maidan (to study animals)	10am to 12:30pm

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify what sketch is and why it exists.
2. Understand the techniques in sketching
3. Recognize and use of mediums like pencil, charcoal and ink.
4. Recognize the media used to produce them, and identify the artist of each work.

Art of Water Colour, a workshop exploring water colour

10 Sundays at different locations

Timings: 10am to 12:30pm

Fee: 6,000/- including all materials and entry tickets to lalbagh 

Schedule of the workshop

07-07-2013	Welcome note, knowing each other, discussion with the instructor and distribution of materials followed by Basic Colour Theory - An introduction to primary, secondary colours and complementary colours. Drawing Basics.	Archeology Museum, Kasturba Road, Bangalore -01
14-07-2013	Working from nature- Drawing and painting from simple objects from nature.	Lalbagh
21-07-2013	Study of Clouds	Lalbagh
28-07-2013	Study of Tree and its texture	Cubbon Park
4-08-2013	Study from Nature (Perspective)	Cubbon Park
11-08-2013	Study of land scape in pen /water colour pencil	CKP
18-08-2013	Studying reflection (water)	Sankey Lake
25-08-2013	Studying a  Village	Rajajinagar
1-09-2013	Study of Architecture	Government Archeology Museum
8-09-2013	Study from Nature	Cubbon Park

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COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify  how water colour works.
2. Understand the techniques in water colour (opaque / transparent)
3.  Recognize the different materials used in water colour technique.
4.  Describe the different techniques with which the artist has to work.
5. Recognize the media used to produce them, and identify the artist of each work.

New Batch Starts June 16th 2013

Only 20 seats in a batch

Pictures and description can be followed on older posts

Class Location: First class will be held at Venkatappa Art Gallery campus.  Remaining classes will be held at various sites like Sheshagiri Hall, Tippu Summer palace, Lalbagh, CKP, Market, Bus Station, Railway station etc., across Bengaluru City.

Skill Level: Beginning – Intermediate

For Registration and details 
contact Krishna Prasad 98863 94195, 98861 53297
E-mail: arthousekp@gmail.com

NATA Classes in Bangalore

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NATA coaching classes in Bengaluru.

NATA Class at Venkatappa Art Gallery 2011

Art House has taken initiative to coach students appearing for NATA. 


Class starts from 1st April 2016 onwards.


Class involves Perspective Study, Basic Design and Colour Theory and study from  previous year question paper study.

Our students have got successful admissions in various architecture colleges in Karnataka since 2010. In 2015 one of our student Shreya Goyal secured 5th Rank.  

looking for more such rank in near future.

This year we are holding 10:30 to 5pm classes in Banshankari, Indiranagar, Kasturba road, Vijayanagar and Tippasandra.

our teachers teach at various Architecture colleges  across Karnataka.


Fee: 8,000/- (includes all materials)

for registration and more details contact Krishna Prasad 98863 94195, 98861 53297

Our other Workshop

One day Charcoal Drawing workshop 7th April 2013
Two Day Water color workshop 13th and 14th April 2013

New batch of Discover Bengaluru through sketching and Art of water colour starts every month

Painting from Nature, 2 day oil painting workshop

Painting from Nature in Oil Medium

21^st January 2012, Cubbon Park

All the participants gathered at the entrance of Tennis court in Cubbon Park at 10am.  All the materials easle, starters kit ( which contained matt, brush set, pencil, napkin, drinking water) and canvas board 18 X 20 inches were provided and we left for the location, which was 200mts away. 



Senthil seen demonstrating while the participants observing him



Padmaja and Sowmya seen practicing

There were only 9 participants some did not turn up inspite of blocking the seat.  We began the days session by introducing Sentil Kumar our instructor to the participants.  He told them to sketch using the paper directly from the brush using oil medium.  As some of them found difficult, he demonstrated a quick sketch which motivated them and they all started choosing a location and worked in monochrome.  Day one they worked on a paper which was smooth in texture.

Our participants a couple of them senior citizens, couple a high school students, a doctor, a IT profession and some home makers.  There skill level varied some were good and some average.  As I had told earlier drawing skill would be a added advantage in the current workshop, I did not take any beginners. All the participants were beginners for oil medium,   As per the instruction by Senthil, all the participants worked in a monochrome where each one explored the natural beauty.  They all had a round of tea, where they all discussed one another, also they struggled in the medium as they were more used to water colour,  Senthil corrected their work individually and gave them inputs to improvise.  Packed north indian lunch was provided at 1: 15pm, after the lunch they were told to use colours to express the landscape.

Padmaja, Smithi, Sonal and Sowmya seen working

Raj Mathur's study

Smithi's study



Pooja's study




Sandhya's landscape on paper



When  told about using colours they were all excited, they changed their locations some of the wanted to paint the bamboo trees, some rocks and others trees which were abundant in cubbon park. Our instructor gave them a quick demo on using colours, they were shown how to mix and apply colours on the surface.  Most of them worked without taking a break and were happy to take home two works on the day one.  The days session concluded at 4: 30 pm.

Day 2

Though the class was scheduled at 10: 30 am everybody were present at 10’o clock.  We began the session with a demo by a young artist Venkatesh who was assisting us in coordinating the workshop.  Later Senthil worked simultaneously with the participants, most of them choosed the same location as that of Senthil, they found it easy to imitate him while painitng.  I told them to watch him painting for half an hour and continue with their work as they was not much time. 

Participants working on canvas

Vipin seen painting

Day 2’s painting experience was different because they were working on a canvas board.  Some of them had a doubt in composition where necessary inputs were given.   All of them were busy working, the only break they took was for a tea.  Senthil continued and completed his work, later he took turns to correct the participants work.  1’o clock lunch was served and they started working immediately.  Senthil demontrated them how to work in pallet  knife as well.  He corrected all of their work, he believed that participants would be happy to see their works on  wall.  By 4’o clock they all had finished their work one participants had to leave early as there was a emergency.  All the works were displayed, it was a memorable day for all of them, as they had captured the beauty of cubbon park on their canvases. 

Padmaja's landscape



Vipin's landscape



Sandhya's work



Smithi's work




Sonal's painting




Usha Naidu's landscape




Sowmya Srikanth's work





Pooja's landscape



Smithi, Sowmya, Vipin, Krishna Prasad, Venkatesh, Senthil, Madhuarya, Padmaja, Sonal, Pooja, Raj Matur and Sandhya

When asked about the services of Art House, they found it informative as they were able to understand the possibility in oil medium, they also complained that lunch was too heavy.  They wanted me to inform about our other workshops as well.

Our forthcoming workshop

18 amd 19 Feb 2012  Art Jugalbandhi, a two day dual workshop oil and water colour on the spot workshop.  For registration contact Krishna Prasad 98863 94195, email  arthousekp@gmail.com