ONLY CHARCOAL

Only charcoal….yes all the drawings and that too only by using charcoal. That's what it was in our charcoal drawing workshop! And when we mix kids and charcoal in one place, what do we get…yes we had charcoal everywhere...on paper, on our hands, on the light switch boards and even on our faces :-) Charcoal is an excellent medium to make beautiful sketches in black and white but it comes with its own dirt baggage. It can be a little tricky to handle for beginners but it also gives the freedom to move their hands freely.

I conducted this workshop with two students, Sneha (10 yrs) and Shaiana (9yrs) who experienced charcoal for the first time. But they surprised me with their efforts and enthusiasm. They put in a lot of efforts and worked and reworked and reworked again….on the same subject again and again. And the results were indeed jaw dropping. By the end of the workshop, I could see them exploring with tougher subjects with much more confidence. This showed a marked improvement over what they were capable of doing in the first class of the workshop. Giving below a glimpse of what we were able to achieve in this workshop:

SNEHA (10 yrs)

  

SNEHA (10 yrs)

SHAIANA (9yrs)

SHAIANA (9 yrs)

SHAIANA (9 yrs)

SNEHA (10 yrs)

CRAZY GEOMETRY ART

One revelation….kids enjoy anything crazy, weird and not so obvious things that go with the art projects too!! The main theme of this post revolves around the use of simple & basic shapes of geometry that all kids know, such as a circle, triangle, square, rectangle, semi-circle etc. to produce art forms. We played around stretching, squeezing & overlapping these shapes and came up with quite a lot of interesting art projects. Given below is an example of a project, which includes making a small product that can be used for their own rooms at their homes. So please go ahead and explore the work of my art wizards:


CRAZY HATS 

BHAKTI (8 yrs)

  

ANIKA (6 yrs

DHAIVIK (5 yrs)

AVANTIKA (7 yrs)

DEEPTHI (8 yrs)

RITHVIK (6 yrs)

CRAZY DOOR HANGERS

Continuing with the theme of crazy art geometry…we converted our drawing project into a useful art project made out of old puzzle pieces! We replicated the crazy hat faces on a Door Hanger and also wrote our personal messages on the Door Hangers. Shhhhh.....let's find out who is awake and who is sleeping :-)

MS. DOODLES | 183 yrs Shhhh ;-)

VEDANSH (6 yrs)

SAI (6 yrs)

SAHANA (8 yrs)

RITHVIK (6 yrs)

DEEPTHI (8 yrs)

BHAKTI (8 yrs)

AVANTIKA (7 yrs)

ANIKA (6 yrs)

CRAZY-CAT-STRETCH

Now who doesn't like a nice cat stretch once in a while…. And more so when you have a cat made up of simple basic shapes! Yes…this interesting cat drawing turned out to be real fun when the kids learnt how easy it was to draw a stretching cat sitting next to the window and enjoying warm rays of sun! Well…don’t we all wish we were the cat enjoying the warm sun rays on a cold winter morning sipping warm milk right?? :-)

VEDANSH (6 yrs)

SAHANA (6 yrs)

SAI (6 yrs)

RITHVIK (6 yrs)

ANIKA (6 yrs)

DEEPTHI (8 yrs)

AVANTIKA (7 yrs)

BHAKTI (8 yrs)