Charcoal Drawing Workshop

23^rd 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.

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.

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.

Practice session

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.

Senthil demonstrating with crayon and compressed charcoal

Anand's drawings

Anjanakshi's studies

Bhargavi's studies

Disha's drawings

Jyothi's drawings

Manjula's studies

Nirmala's drawings

Nirupa's drawings

Vidya's studies

Yamuna's studies

K.Natarajan's drawing

Ravi Ramachar's Drawing

Usha Naidu's drawings

More works of Usha Naidu

Rashmi's study

Rashmi's charcoal pencil study

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 6^th January 2013.  For details contact Krishna Prasad 98863 94195, 98861 53297