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Etching abilities on canvas

Deepa Raparla explores the Siri Art School in its finest detail


LEARNING IS the activity to gain knowledge. While most schools we attend provide all the bookish knowledge we need, we have some which offer courses that can awaken the innate artistic being that is dwelling within us. Learning can be fun when the subject totally connects to us. And, what is more, when it depicts beauty, the celebration only escalates.

With summer in its full swing bringing us in the reach of many things - vacations, ice creams, summer camps, summer schools etc., there are places that can offer you a full-blown change of time. Don't think of the saloons and saunas. On the contrary, what we are getting at is a simple art school positioned in the midst of this city offering a wide selection of courses.


You are creatively aesthetic and looking out for a place to better your talents. Guess, this could be of some help. Siri School of Art is sure that it can mould the talent in its students. With Subjects like Embroidery, Fabric Painting, Maggam, Oil Painting, Drawing, Glass painting and 2D-Animation, the school is attracting a multifarious student crowd interested in diverse subjects.

The creatively talented Sashidhar, who is in the teaching faculty, is also the man behind setting up this bright place, which today is a place where copious kids and house wives spend their spare time creating some admirable art work. With five trained staff working strenuously towards imbibing the skills and ensuring better standards, Siri is, no doubt, wooing the artful people in the city for an arty course in their leisure. "Though, I mainly started off only to bring an awareness about the 2D-animation and the opportunities it provides among people in this city, I am glad its doing well,'' says Sashidhar with a quick grin.


Babu Rao, who is in the faculty instructing oil painting, is a pro with his first-rate paintings and fabric designs that could catch the attention of any passer-by.

"This is a nice way to consume my summer. Moreover, I get to meet like-minded people,'' says Sai Sree, a school-going student. Schools, these days, have arrived to that droning design where books burden the brain and barely provide resources that are liberal enough for the students to apprehend their buried creative talents. While the importance of art is diminishing in the commercialised schooling business, it appears schools like Siri want to signify that, Art is beauty and creating beauty is a sheer pleasure that any human deserves!

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