23rd December 2012
A Day in Nature with Charcoal Medium,
charcoal drawing workshop
The location for the workshop was
cubbon park, all participants were directed to come near the Bal Bhavan at 10
am. We had 16 participants registered,
but for some reason 3 were unable to make it to the workshop.
All materials were provided by
Art House, we provided each participants with Pencil, Charcoal Pencil, Charcoal
Crayon, Compressed charcoal, a book to draw, a napkin, one Canson C A Grain paper and other stationary.
We began with an introduction of
our participants, a couple were senior
citizens, some home makers, couple from IT professionals, couple from law and some students were among the team. Finally Senthil Kumar instructor for the
session was introduced to all of them.
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| Senthil with the students demonstrating basic skill |
The days session was divided in
sections, we were to teach them how to use Charcoal Pencil, Charcoal Crayon and
Compressed Charcoal. We began with
the Pencil, which was hard to use. Our instruction taught them step by step to
use the pencil with some basic techniques of how to draw leaves, rocks and
trees which was around them. Each one
began their work practicing the techniques taught. After tea at 11:15 a detailed demo was done
which brought all the participants a confidence to work. Each one explored with various forms, some
sketched trees, some rocks and some also included humans in their drawings.
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| Senthil's demo work |
At around 1:15 we had a lunch,
followed by a break of 15minutes. Later
we began a session with demonstration of use of charcoal crayon and compressed
charcoal. Each one got a drawing from
our instructor, which had variety. He
showed them how to use the material by doing various forms. Later they all practiced with crayon and
compressed charcoal. Most of them
produced many works of quality.
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| Practice session |
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| Practice session |
After tea at 3:30 they were
provided with Canson C A Grain paper, most of them used the paper and did their
drawings only few of them were scared to use it. They happily carried their papers saying that
they will work at home.
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| Senthil demonstrating with crayon and compressed charcoal |
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| Anand's drawings |
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| Anjanakshi's studies |
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| Bhargavi's studies |
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| Disha's drawings |
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| Jyothi's drawings |
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| Manjula's studies |
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| Nirmala's drawings |
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| Nirupa's drawings |
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| Vidya's studies |
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| Yamuna's studies |
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| K.Natarajan's drawing |
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| Ravi Ramachar's Drawing |
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| Usha Naidu's drawings |
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| More works of Usha Naidu |
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| Rashmi's study |
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| Rashmi's charcoal pencil study |
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| K.Natarajan, Ravi Ramachar, Krishna Prasad, Usha Naidu, Senthil Kumar, Manjula, Nirmala, Jyothi, Anand, Vidya gopal, Yamuna, Anjanakshi, Bhargavi, Nirupa, Disha, and Rashmi |
The day ended at 4:30, the
participants carried back with lot of works produced in a day. Some of them wanted us to join our regular
workshops. Some also demanded short
workshop in Water colour. At 5pm we had
a group photo and finally dispersed.
Krishna Prasad
Our new batch of Discover Bengaluru through Art
starts from 6th January 2013. For details contact Krishna Prasad 98863 94195, 98861 53297
