Faux Marble Effect – Online Workshop with Tanvi Shah
In this session, we explore a unique specialty finish – faux marble effect. This workshop is packed with techniques. Two different techniques will be demonstrated to create a marble effect.
You will get start-to-finish instructions, a clear understanding of the materials used and handy tips that will enable you to create other objects, making this an interesting session for all interested DIY enthusiasts.
Using this technique and mimic the look of marble on dull and boring objects such as boxes, trays, tabletops, benches, walls and more.
Materials needed-
– MDF/ wood base/ old melamine tray or any surface that you need to give a new look.
– Acrylic colors (choice of your color – black, white, grey & blue recommended)
– Shrink plastic/ Kitchen cling film
– Brushes
– Acrylic retarder(recommended but not compulsory)
– Stencil & Stencil Brush (Optional)
– Varnish
Day & Date: Sunday, 1st November
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 900 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
Not sure what to do with the leftover bottles?? Join us and learn the beautiful art of dotting mandalas and give your bottles and the plates a new look again.
In this workshop, we will be doing dot mandalas on bottles or paper You will be learning how to work on a curved or flat base and also methods of layering and sealing the dots.
Materials Required:
1. Clean glass bottle (preferably dark colored blue, brown or green) or Canvas/MDF primed with black acrylic paint
2. Acrylic colors, light, and bright shades. Like white, yellow, leaf green, red, orange, red, light blue.
3. Dot art tools, or if not available earbuds, pencil, toothpicks, round brush ends, etc will work also.
4. Rag cloth, water, safety pin
Artist : Subojit Saha from Bottles n Brushes.
Benefits are as follows:
– Relaxes
– Controls emotions
– Helps in hand-eye co-ordination
– Reduces stress and lowers anxiety
– Uplifts your soul
– Connects to the inner you and helps understand the physical and mental needs
– Stimulates the creative thought flow
– Assists in decision making and helps problem-solving
Please note that the aim of the workshop is not to complete the bottle/artwork within 2 hours but to help you understand mandala as an art form, different techniques and equip you to complete your artwork in your own time.
Day & Date: Saturday, 31st October
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
Have you ever thought what could a negative space do?
Someone has truly said, “Make an empty space in any corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it”.
That’s what we do here in negative painting.
We let the SURROUNDING shine brighter than the object, we let the NEGATIVE space come forward than the positive space.
Because negative space is Magical! This workshop will guide you in creating your first negative space art and open your minds to view paintings differently.
What are the basic materials required for the workshop?
No prior experience/ artistic experience required!
What will you learn:
Basic knowledge about negative painting, different techniques
Applying base colors & some rough sketching
Special Brush strokes
Concept of layering & shadowing
A beautiful negative painting composition of your own
About the Artist:
Arti is an engineer, a researcher and an artist. In the last 5 years having closely worked with the rural community and health system she feels that each one of us has a special expression of their own inner power. She does photo caricatures, sketch monuments, do watercolors, dutch pour paintings, acrylics and much more. She runs www.bulletraniart.com.
Age: Adults and Children above 8 years
Day & Date: Saturday, 24th October
Timings: 5pm to 7pm (IST)
Venue: Online Session on Zoom
Fee: Rs 700 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Click the Registration button above to register
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
The rich creamy curries, the fragrant herbs and sauces draw us to #ThaiCuisine. But if you want to try them at home, where do you begin?
Thai cuisine can be simply said to be an artistic blend of fresh and dried herbs, with intriguing hints of tangy, the heady and the aromatic. It is an exquisite mix of fragrances of coriander, lemon grass, coconut, tamarind, galangal, chillies, sweet basil, ginger, garlic and shallots. This course will help you get started with cooking Thai food at home. From making your own curry paste to understanding alternate ingredients wherever possible and all that you need to know to begin using them in your veg and non veg dishes, serving them to your friends and family this festive season.
LEARN TO MAKE-
1. Red Thai curry
2. Som Tam Salad
3. Pad Thai
4. Tofu and vegetable satay with peanut dip
This is a demonstration based workshop (recommended) but you are welcome to try it if you do have the ingredients.
You will require a notebook and a pen to take down notes and interesting tips that the chef will give you.
The unedited video and recipes will be provided for your view.
About the Chef : Sheenu Duggal, a food blogger, consultant, home baker and autodidactic chef runs her blog ‘Exotic musings’ which reflects her food philosophy of cooking quick, easy, healthy, tasty and nutritious meals in this fast pace life we are living in today’s world. Her experimentation with various exotic cuisines from across the world to an urban Indian household cooking is where she adds value to her clients.
Day & Date: Saturday, 17th October
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
In this free session, you will learn about basic watercolor painting techniques. You will also learn basic techniques of brush strokes and about various materials used for watercolor painting.
When: Friday, 11th September
Time: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Instagram Live Session
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
Dreamcatcher & Macrame Key chain Making Online Workshop
Upcycle, recycle and reuse!
We bring you a workshop that let’s you do all the above!
Join us for this workshop with Agrima from The Square Knot!
In this workshop, each of you will learn how to make a dreamcatcher & Macrame Key chain for your beautiful homes!
Materials for Dreamcatcher::
– A ring(wooden/metal)
– A thin yarn (wool, temple thread , any 2-3mm thick yarn)
– some old fabric cuttings (use old dupattas)
– some feathers, beads (optional)
– any decorative material you have around the house!
Materials for Macrame Keychain: -Keychain Ring (old/new)
-A good pair of scissors
-Yarn, 3mm thickness
(go creative here, some examples: macrame yarn, cord, jute rope, temple thread, wool, fabric strips-1inch wide)
-Hardbound book and tape for support
And you are good to go!
Let’s make something beautiful for out homes, shall we!?
Day & Date: Sunday, 9th August
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 500 (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Venue: Online session on Zoom
Wood Grain Effect – Online Workshop with Tanvi Shah
Wouldn’t it be lovely to create a natural wood grain finish on any surface. You will learn exactly that using wood graining tools as well as without using the tool. You will also learn to use stencils for this. This technique may be applied to walls, table tops & decoupage bases too.
Thangka Painting (Lotus) – Online Workshop with Krishna Tashi Palmo
Thangka paintings are rich in meaning and usually depicts a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala. Traditionally, Thangka is designed to tell the life of Buddha, as well as other influential Lamas and deities. Thangka artists believe that painting Thangkas aid in the spiritual path to enlightenment, as this religious art is used as a meditation tool.
As part of the 8 lucky signs that are of importance in a Thangka painting, we will be doing 1 sign which is the Thangka lotus. The 8 lucky signs are found often in Buddhist monasteries and in many homes. We will be doing one of them which is ‘The Thangka lotus’ that signifies spiritual purity. Krishna will also take us into the world of Thangka with stories, as we indulge in painting it.
*The communication for this workshop will be primarily in Hindi and moderated in English and Hindi.
Materials needed:
– A5 sheet/ Thick paper,
– Acrylic paints
– Pencil, Scale, Eraser,
– Tissues,
– Palette and
– Brushes (0-8 if you have) Else, 4 no brush and in place of 0 no. brush , you could also use thin tip markers of red and black colours.
About the Artist: Krishna Tashi Palmo is an expert Thangka painting artist. She is certified in Tibetan Traditional Buddhist Thangka art from T.c.v Patlikhul District Kullu Himachal Pradesh. She is an enthusiastic participant of art workshops and exhibited her artworks at Lahaul, Kullu Manali, Shimal, Jaipur, Delhi, Korea and Hong Kong. She’s proud of her Thangka heritage and culture. She hopes that with her work she could make people see this art for what it is, magical and beautiful and understand the significance of this meditative art form.
Day & Date: Thursday, 18th June
Time: 11 am to 1 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on Zoom
Fees: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Impasto is a technique of applying thick and dramatic strokes of paint on canvas. It adds a textural dimension to the canvas whilst the paint stands out from the surface. The textures get accentuated with the use of a palette knife.
Materials required:
Canvas board ORcanvas pad OR Thick drawing sheet – Recommended size: 8×10 inches/ 10×12 inches
Day & Date: Saturday, 10th April
Time: 4 pm to 6.30 pm (IST)
Fees: Rs 850 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Venue: Online class on Zoom
Note: You will be added to a WhatsApp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in a day prior to the workshop.
Scratch Programming – Four Days Live Online Workshop with Smitha
About Scratch
Scratch is a block-based programming platform, developed by MIT. It is very visual, gives instant feedback for code written, and allows kids to be very creative. Because of this, it is the perfect platform to get started with programming. Kids of ages 10+ enjoy working with this platform to create projects of all types. If you are interested in starting programming for your kid, but think Python is too difficult, then Scratch might be just right for you.
About this course
In this course, we will be learning the basics of programming, individual blocks, how they can be put together to do complex things. We will make an animated movie using Scratch programming language, which the students can then share with family and friends! Students will also learn the art of storytelling, and effective techniques to make captivating movie plots. They will implement their idea using the programming concepts they learnt, to make an animated movie online.
About the Trainer:
Smitha Pisupati, a maker, tinkerer, and founder of Tinkerama. She love building things, and love teaching. Tinkerama is her venture to bring Creative Confidence to children through hands on learning. With an electronics background, she had worked as a firmware engineer for 11 years, and programming has been a large part of her previous career.
Age group: 10 years and above
Dates: 26th May to 29th May
Days: Tuesday to Friday
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 1800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
You will learn how to make 5 kinds of flowers, the design sheet will be sent for you’ll to trace, even if you are not able to get a printout, the freehand design would also work.
These beautiful flowers can be used for scrapbooking and upcycling projects, or for amazing card making and even as a jewellery piece.
Materials required:
1. Drawing book paper/Cartridge sheets/Floral paper (White & Color)
2. Acrylic paints, distress inks/ Spray mists/ Soft pastels basically anything to color with
3. Ball tool / Embossing tool / Thick bulky pen as a substitute
4. Embossing pad / Old soft Diary / Thick towel
5. Pearls/beads/pollen fillers
6. Water mist spray / A bowl of water
7. Fevicol
Date: 10th May, 2020
Days: Sunday
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
Charcoal Painting with Kshama – Online-live Session
Brush away your brushes and roll up your sleeves. Catch up with Kshama from Arth by Kshama and learn to make charcoal paintings. Get your hands dirty with charcoal sticks and powders as you study textures, light, and shadows. Drawing with charcoal is addictive due to faster results and its ability to create an outstanding monochromatic look. In this workshop, we shall go through the basics of charcoal painting, along with the use of charcoal sticks, charcoal pencil and charcoal powder. Paint up a storm and adorn your home with your work to cherish.
Learn Book Sculpture with Bijal Shah from Blue Water Creations – Free online-live session
We will be making Little Miss Red Riding Hood and a Hedgehog
Material required:
1)Two old books approximately 75 pages (minimum) : size: 5.5 inches by 7 inches ( approximate) preferably with a hard cover
(These books can be old used notebooks, novels etc with good quality pages)
2) scissors
3) cellotape / glue / fevicol
4) old newspaper and/or coloured paper (red, black, brown, any other color of your choice ) – you can use coloured paper from magazines/ newspaper also where there is text written on the paper
5) small ball with the size of a table tennis ball OR round bottle cork OR clay to make the ball
6) pencil / sketchpen
7) old bottle cap (soft drink bottle or bislery bottle cap – colour it red and keep ready )
Do not worry if you don’t have all the materials… Just enjoy the book sculpture making process ! ?
Age : 5 years and above including adults
Date: 8th April, 2020
Day: Wednesday
Time: 6:30 pm to 7:15 pm
To join whatsapp us on 7259280949/ 9900052747
We commence a 10-sessions in-depth still life course. It’s an art form that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world, such as fruit, flowers, baskets or bowls.
Through the program, we’ll cover key topics such as :
• Understanding textures
• Layering
• Color mixing
• Color harmony
• Color perspective
• Use of white
• Composition tips
Day: 10 Sundays
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (IST)
Fee: ₹4500 per person (All 10 sessions)
Venue: Online classes on zoom
Knowledge of watercolor beginner techniques is mandatory
For registrations and details, WhatsApp on 9900052747
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led online and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
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Join in and learn how to make gorgeous and beautiful pearl coasters that will enhance any living space. Open to everyone who is interested in learning beautiful white crystal pearl coasters, small mats etc. No prior experience necessary.
What you’ll learn:
– Learn basic pattern and design for coasters/ mats from scratch.
Materials required:
– Pearls (anything lying around the house- preferably of the same size)
– Weaving line or any thick white thread that can go through the pearl.
– Needle (optional)
