Class 2, Art of Water Colour

23rd October 2011

Class No. 2 was scheduled at Cubbon Park.  Most of them were present at the scheduled place (Bala Bhawan) gate in time.  Some were yet to come and I was waiting for them, since some of them were familiar with the location I sent them along with Venu to the location.

The Days subject was painting from nature.

Usually we start with a warm up, that is we tell all the participants to sketch for 15 to 20 minutes. Similarly everybody started sketching,  Each one selected their own subject like some choosed the nearby rock and some trees, some also sketched the bamboo tree which was clearly visible. Venu corrected them one by one, he also demonstrated a drawing.

Venu correcting Madhu Kumar's sketch 

Drawing demonstration  

 Venu also demonstrated a water colour landscape, after him was the turn of all the participants, they all worked as instructed by Venu.  Some of the took correction and left the session by 1:30 , finally It was 2:15 when rain interupted and we winded up  the session for the day.

 Venu seen correcting Pooja's work while Poornima seen painting

Arun seen with his painting

Sehali, Shilpa and Shradha seen painting

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.

Trends in Realism Painting

Realism  in art   refers to the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life seen from the perspective of the artist. Realism in European art has a very long history dating back to the Greek city states and the Roman empire. For a long time such art works had been commissioned by the royalty or the Churches and as a result most of the oldest art works in this genre had depicted scenes about royal life or the bible scenes.  However with the advent of industrial revolution, the decline of the royal houses and the beginning of photography, the realist school gradually gave way to newer forms of art. 

 

 Realism

                                                      

Nonetheless Realism has reinvented itself in various new avatars like Social Realism, Kitchen Sink Realism and till very recently Magic Realism, here artist uses realistic techniques to depict realistic scenes without distortion, which was the artists own creation. 

                                                                                           Magic Realism

 

Realism was introduced in India by the British Art Schools and the first set of artworks that were painted then were popularly called the Company School art. However Indian artists since then had been experimenting with many other forms of art as well, most popular among which was Surrealism.

     Company Painting

During the past one decade, with the gradual decline of Post modernism the world over, Realism has once again come in newer forms. In China, during the last decade a style of art became very popular called the Cynical Realism. This coincided with the advent of Super Realism or Mega Realism in Europe.  It in this context that a new genre of Art called Pseudorealism is to be assessed.

 

                                                                                          Cynical Realism

 

 Pseudorealism, also spelt as Pseudo – realism was introduced into the Indian Art scene by artist Devajyoti Ray only about a decade back and has gained in popularity over the past few years. In Pseudorealistic paintings, though the scenes depicted look realistic, the technique used is that of abstraction.  In Ray’s paintings, one sees the use of off-beat colours, abstract shapes which do not have any parallel in real world.  Yet the over all image looks comprehensible and has the appeal of realism. 

      Pseudo Realism by Devjyoti Ray

 

Over the past few years Ray has held many exhibitions both within and outside India, with the aim of popularizing this new genre of art. He has been widely written about in art journals and two recent books. He has also been featured in documentaries on emerging trends of Indian art. 

This year Ray’s works will be once again exhibited at the Jehangir Gallery in Mumbai in November. The event will showcase 26 of Ray’s latest paintings.