Different shades in watercolour, colour wheel, relative and opposite colours.
Types in brushes, types in papers. Application of water colours, etc.
Landscape painting in the class.
Still life painting by amazing different articles with drapery.
Nature drawing – different flowers with stems, leaves are kept for actual i.e. live sketching in the class.
Outdoor landscape sketching
Revision of any one of above type as per unanimous requirement.
Calligraphy
A comprehensive
course in Calligraphy covers:
a) Introduction to
Calligraphy and its history, tools required, etc.
b)
Primary strokes and lettering in Devnagari and English
c) Letters,
Characters, Design elements and Application of Calligraphy
Warli
Painting
Warli Painting
course starts with its history, origin, the forms, symbols
and icons, material handling.
Its commercial
applications: Tarpa design and actual Tarpa instrument is
shown to participants. It is been blown to know the
typical tune for Tarpa dance.
Papier Mache
Papier Mache is
art material made of paper strips soaked in water to form
pulp & mixed with binders to dry under the Sun to form
into a firm, hard substance.
Papier Mache is
widely used in the production of decorative objects and
sculptures of great lightness, delicacy, and strength.
At Bask
Abstractions, we use the traditional and authentic way of
creating Papier Mache using natural binders.
Pottery
Terracotta
Pottery
1) Types of clays:
a) Earth wave / Terracotta
b) Stone wave
c) Porcelain
2) Methods of
making pots:
a) Throwing (Wheel pottery)
b) Slab making or pinch pottery
c) Coil pottery
3) Firing methods:
a) Traditional wood firing / pit firing
b) Electric Kin (furnace) firing
c) LPG Kiln firing
d) Diesel furnace firing
4) Clay
combinations:
a) Earth wave - Ball clay + China clay + Silica (flint)
Terracotta - Red garden clay + whiting
b) Stone wave - Ball wave + Fire Clay + Silica + feldspar
c) Porcelain - China clay + Ball Clay + Feldspar + Silica
5) Colour after
firing
a) Earth wave - Red / Buff
Terracotta - Red / Pink / Brick
b) Stone wave - Pink / Off white
c) Porcelain - White
6) Temperature
required:
a) Earth wave / Terracotta - 600 0C and above
b) Stone wave - 900-1000 oC
c) Porcelain - 1100 oC and above
The Origin of "Kumbha"
In India, pots
were called, "Kumbha" and porters "Kumbhars". The
etymology of this word gives a substantial clue to the
story of finding the use of clay and its wonderful
properties. India was and is a land of elephant and they
by nature love to play in muddy water, and always pour
water on their foreheads with the help of their trunks. In
ancient time, it must have
so happened that these elephants while playing in water
must have poured muddy water over their foreheads. The
clay on their foreheads must have dried after some time,
giving them the shape of their foreheads.
This might have
given to man the idea that such dried hollows of clays
could be used as vessels of storage. This is how the
legend goes. Therefore, as the head of the elephant is
known as "Kumbha" and later when man began to make such
vessels in clay, he was called "Khumbhar".
Oil &
Acrylic Painting
This course is of 8 sessions. It is designed in such a way to know the characteristics of colours, their consistency, uses of oil mediums i.e linseed oil & turpentine. Variety of brushes available. Generally hog hair brushes are used for oil painting. Work starts from darker tone to lighter tone. Oil painting is done by application of layers of colours. Next layer of colour is applied after drying of first layer. Faculty shows all these to participant, which participants in turn does in the course.
In 1st session demonstration is given on how to use colours on oil papers. Shading effect mixing of colours is shown. Then participants are shown how to go for landscaping.
2nd, 3rd sessions – Landscapes are taught.
4th session – Still life is taught. Still life means some object are kept in front of the members with drapery and the painting is done with shade & light effect.
5th session – Introduction of Acrylic colours & its applications as water colour & oil colours.
6th session – Outdoor – Nature drawing e.g. Flowers, trees etc. what we see in nature.
7th & 8th Session – Outdoor landscape painting in Arcylic colours with prespective aspect and composition aspects.
Pencil and Charcoal painting
Use of pencils, variety in drawing pencils, lines of different thickness, vertical parallel lines, horizontal parallel lines, cross parallel lines, circular parallel lines, etc.
Nature drawing: leaves different flowers, branches, sketching, from actual specimens kept in the class.
Still life: variety of pots and other items arranged with drapery in the class. They are drawn with high middle and low keys.
Landscape drawing: use of charcoal in some drawings.
Outdoor session for landscapes and nature drawing.
Revision of any one of the above three type of sessions as per unanimous requirement.
Madhubani Painting
Bihar is famous
for its traditional painting - Madhubani.
It chiefly
prevails in the Madhubani district of the north India
State. Besides, its adjacent places like Jetwarpur, Ranti,
Rasidpur, Bacchi and Rajangarh are also well know for its
unique art.
The painting is
mainly depicted on walls, paper, cloth, religious and
decorative pots and sometimes on wood. Till about 50-60
years ago, it was chiefly a decorative art - to decorate
the house walls in the villages. After 1962 they started
painting on paper and cloth. Later on they started
painting on sarees, duppattas, rumals (head-wears), table
cloth, wood, pot and the other bases.
The raw materials
used for this painting are papers, satin cloth, fabric
cloth, cotton, cloth, etc. For painting on paper, they use
natural colours and natural powders (holi powder), which
are locally abstracted. On walls and cloth, they use
fabric colours.
The themes of this
painting are mainly categorized into religious, natural
scenes of the village, flora and fauna. The religious
themes are two branches - little tradition and great
tradition. The little traditional gods like Raja Salesh,
Moti Ram, Buddheshwar, Bansupthi, Tinubai and goddess like
Reshma, Kusma, Downa Malini often occur on the traditional
paintings. The main focus will be on Raja Salesh Stories,
who is the chief God of Madhubani people and stories on
him. The great traditional gods and goddesses like Radha-Krishna,
Mahadeva-Parvati, Durga, Kali, Ganesha, Hanuman, Ravana,
Sun, Moon, and Navagraha often occur on the paintings.
Village scenes, animals, birds, flowers and some designs
also take place on Madhubani painting. Tattoo is a
tradition of their life. The artists use these tattoo
symbols in their paintings.
The Madhubani
people totally rely on this art for their living. It is
their traditional profession from generations. Most of the
artists are women. There is no age bar in learning this
art. A child at five sits besides his mother and
starts learning the traditional art. They get opportunity
to sell their paintings in national and international
traditional art camps.
