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For a splash of creativity

Staff Reporter

Visual Arts Trust organises camp for children from April 20 to May 1

BANGALORE: For the eighth year in a row, the city-based Visual Arts Trust is ready with its annual creative painting and sculpture workshops for children aged between six and 16. Watch out for all the fun and colours at the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, Bull Temple Road, from April 20 to May 1.

Here's how these summer workshops are different: they are focussed on a single theme and the participants are guided by professional artistes to help them create their own version of the given theme.

The medium is also unusual. For instance, the workshop focusses on Plaster of Paris sculptures, mould from clay, relief and round sculptures, graphic art and mixed media.

Now for a quick flashback at the previous Visual Art Workshops.

The workshop in 2000 had 45 participants aged between six and 16.

They recreated the story of Jatayu, the valiant mythological character who fought Ravana in the skies while he was carrying away Sita, through terracotta and mixed media. The next year, the workshop had as its theme "Two Worlds."

Two worlds

The playful, carefree, innocent world of the young, and the slow, thoughtful, frail world of the old were rendered in a thousand colours. The medium included mono print and Plaster of Paris cast sculptures.

The 2003 workshop had as its theme "My Family." An exhibition of 35 paintings done at the workshop depicted the everyday life of children in their houses.

The works were done with colour pencils on toned mount boards.

The participants carved relief sculptures in Plaster of Paris, which were later inked creating "inked reliefs."

Advance art classes

The Visual Arts Trust also conducts basic and advanced art classes for men and women.

Participants are exposed here to drawing, oil painting, water colour painting, pastels, charcoal and other artistic media.

Classes are conducted thrice a week on the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs premises.

Certificates will be given to those who complete six months of continuous training.

For details, call Ph: 26890006 or mobile phone: 9448082303.

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