Learn basic embroidery to make masterpiece!
Master the basics of hand embroidery! In this session you will learn how to set up and begin an embroidery project. You will also be introduced to few basic stitches that can be used for many designs.
Baking Workshop with Exotic Musings – Live Online Session
This online session in Baking will give you the much needed head-start into the world of Baking by teaching you the do’s and don’ts of this much loved culinary skill. This will be a guided session in Baking with Sheenu guiding participants from her own kitchen.
You will learn to make the following recipes:
1. Banana walnut loaf cake
2. Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies
3. Foccacia bread
4. Yogurt Mango Tart
Participants can choose to do it along or watch as Sheenu bakes. Participants can later choose to make the recipe at home.
An early registration will help the participant buy the ingredients early, for a ‘Bake along’ with Sheenu.
Date: 31st May, 2020
Day: Sunday
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Note: Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in. This will also be used to handhold participants and clarify doubts if any at a later stage when baking.
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)
Drawing and Painting – Free Trial Class For Children
Drawing and Painting is one of the way for kids to express their emotions and thoughts. Keep your children engaged with the best combination of productivity, learning and fun! The online structured art classes are configured for ages 5 to 9 years and will be conducted by Vinita Jalan. Vinita has been teaching and sketching for over 20 years to children.
Date: 21st May, 2020
Day: Thursday
Time: 5 pm to 6 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Zentangle is a “Meditative Artform”, that is easy to learn and is a relaxing method of creating beautiful abstract art using structured patterns. It teaches and focuses on being mindful and present. No artistic skills required.
If you can write your name, you can create a Zentangle. Apart from creating beautiful art, practicing the Zentangle method has wonderful benefits
Here are some of the benefits enjoyed:
– Helps with Relaxation
– Cultivates mindfulness
– Helps with Insomnia (Improved sleep by creating Zentangle art before bedtime)
– Creating beautiful works of art
– Nurtures and develops creative abilities
– Relieves stress
– Improves hand-eye coordination
– Develops and rehabilitate fine motor skills
– Increases attention span and ability to concentrate
During this session, we shall get you comfortable working with patterns and help you create a beautiful Zentangle Mini Project.
About the Trainer:
Sandhya is a Certified Zentangle Teacher and has been practicing Zentangle for 11 yrs now. In 2011, she got Certified as a Zentangle Teacher making her India’s first Zentangle Teacher. She could now share this amazing art with others to build their creativity focus concentration and many other benefits that Zentangle offers. Since then she has taught 1000s of people both in the US and India through community colleges art associations schools corporate sessions private sessions group classes international online classes.
Age group: 10 years and above
Date: Sunday, 11th April
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
In this workshop, create a dreamy quilled landscape using colorful quilling strips during this quarantine time.
Materials Required:
1. Quilling strips/ strips of coloured paper
2. Quilling needle/ tooth picks
3. Glue
4. Thick paper for artwork to be stuck on
5. Paper Cutter
Age group: Adults and Children above 10 years
Date: 19th and 21st May, 2020
Day: Tuesday and Thursday
Time: 3 pm to 4 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 600 per person (for both days) (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Note: This class will involve homework where the participants will need to complete the project at home under the guidance of the trainer on the whatsapp group.
Emotionally Empowered Parenting – Live Online Session
Empowered Parenting is a unique session that focuses on building the relationship between parent and child and helping you as the parent become more aware of what your child is communicating through their play. After attending this session, you will feel empowered and able to understand your child’s inner world.
Session 1 (Sunday, 17th May) – Understanding Emotions
– Introduction to parenting
– Understanding Emotions
– Are we operating from love or fear?
– What are our beliefs about parenting and emotions?
– Guided meditation, breathing practices, self-reflection through journaling
– 1 hour of talk and 1 hour of Q&A
– 1 hour of Q&A (Optional to stay back)
Session 2 (Sunday, 24th May) – Empowerment
– The root of negative emotions
– What do our children really need?
– Setting healthy nurturing boundaries
– Tips for empowerment
– 1 hour of talk and 1 hour of Q&A (Can stay if needed only)Tips for empowerment
– 1 hour of Q&A (Optional)
* This session is a follow up to session 1 and cannot be taken as a stand alone session.
About the trainer:
Divya Jain is a healer and a transformational coach. She truly believes in the inside out approach for personal growth. Divya brings a unique perspective on communication, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics through her long and varied experiences in theater, the corporate world and in her own spiritual pursuits. She finds great joy and deep fulfilment in being a guide and fellow traveler on journeys of self-discovery. She is a trained counselor and is certified in NLP at the Masters level. She has also trained in Inner child healing, rebirthing breathwork and energy healing under various teachers.
Date: 17th May and 24th May
Day: Sundays
Time: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 400 per person (For Session 1 Only)
Rs 650 per person (For Both Sessions)
(Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
The 5-day online art camp is all about inspiring creativity in kids of all ages. These activities will keep your kids not only entertained and engaged but give them a zeal to DIY and upcycle things that are around them.
Day 1: Monday, 18th Oct Zentangle Still Life – The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles. You create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs. These simple shapes are the “Elemental Strokes” in all Zentangle art. Materials required – Marker/Microtip pen and colors
Day 2 : Tuesday, 19th Oct Bottle Painting – Upcycle your glass bottles to a beautiful piece of art using some fun and endearing art techniques making most of the materials available with you. These bottles may be used as vases, lampshade holders, etc.
Materials required – Empty glass/ plastic/ metal bottle or jar, acrylic paints, brushes sponge (optional) earbuds/ Q tips, any marker or sketch pen.
Day 3: Wednesday, 20th Oct Harry Potter Painting – Little treat to all Potterheads, as Hedwig brings you your Letter from Hogwarts. After getting sorted into your Houses we shall swish and flick our brushes to paint the adorable Hedwig. All supplies will be brought straight from Diagon Alley to your desk. Do not hold back if you have never painted before, we have got it all sorted for you.
Materials required – Canvas/ Drawing sheet, brushes, acrylic paints
Day 4: Thursday, 21st Oct
Texture Painting: Acrylic painting of cupcake with textured background. Participants will learn how to create textures with various materials like bubble wraps/ newspapers, tooth brush, fingers etc
Materials require – Acrylic paints and available materials for texturing
Day 5: Friday, 22nd Oct Lippan Art – Lippan Kaam, also known as Mud and mirror work is a traditional Mural Craft of Kutch, Gujarat India. Learn Clay Modeling techniques and Mirror placing in this session.
Materials required – Mirrors, Shilpkaar clay, canvas/any MDF board
Date: Mon, 18th Oct to Fri, 22nd Oct
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm (IST)
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
Fee: Rs 1800 per person (for 5 days)
Rs 500 per person (for ANY one day)
Fee inclusive of taxes
Note: Participants may register for any one day. Look forward to an engaging experience in picking up new skills.
Mindfulness and self-expression through art
– Free kids workshop with Divya Jain by Bloom and grow.
Includes –
– Fun activities – riddles/emojis
– Short meditation
– Drawing/journaling
– Simple affirmations
Materials: Paper, pen/pencil and crayons/ color pencils.
About the Instructor:
Our trainer Divya Jain is a counselor and is certified in NLP at the Masters level. She has also trained in Inner child healing, rebirthing breathwork and energy healing under various teachers. Divya brings a unique perspective on communication, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics through her long and varied experiences in theater, the corporate world and in her own spiritual pursuits. She finds great joy and deep fulfilment in being a guide and fellow traveler on journeys of self-discovery.
For children: ages 6 to 12 (parents can accompany)
Date: 7th May, 2020
Days: Thursday
Time: 4 pm (IST)
Venue – Online through zoom. Zoom link will be sent to our whatsapp groups.
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
Sketching and Pencil Shading – Free Trial Live Session with Micky Sujan
This online pencil sketching session will show you how to create advanced art that will stand up as professional work. These sessions will help you enhance your drawing skills.
During these sessions we will take you from having little knowledge in drawing to creating advanced art and having a deep understanding of drawing fundamentals.
Happy sketching!
Day & Date: Sunday, 14th June
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm (IST)
Zoom link for the session will be shared via WhatsApp
Reading and Activity based on a book with the author – Free online-live session
The author, Divya will talk about her book which is about self-acceptance told through the lens of not liking your curly hair.
She will read some parts of the book.
Post the reading we do an activity – the first part is on how to write and get out your feelings about being teased.
The second is pushing children to think about what makes them unique etc and create some kind of output that helps them reinforce the thought.
Materials required: paper and colors/pen/ pencil for small activity.
Date: 24th April, 2020
Day: Friday
Time: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
To stay updated on the sessions, Whatsapp us on: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CP1RliwfMNdDZnoCJaclOn
Acrylic paints are one of the most versatile and exciting art mediums for beginner painters. Participants will be guided through the course to understand LIGHT and FORM, MIXING of colors, applying LAYERS of colors to get the exact subject, COMPOSITIONS, and much more.
Materials required:
Canvas board ORcanvas pad OR Thick drawing sheet – Recommended size: 8×10 inches/ 10×12 inches
Learn Travel Sketching in Watercolours with Hemali Mehta – Two day online session
Do you want to capture your travel experiences in hand-drawn sketches in this quarantine period ? Then this workshop is for you.
Course overview
Travel sketching or holiday sketching is a great way to record your travel experiences. You can sketch on the spot or bring your travel photos to life with sketches. In this fun 2 day class learn the tips, tricks and secrets of travel sketching with popular watercolour tutor Hemali Mehta. Keep your favourite travel photos/postcards for reference or use Hemali’s reference material.
What will you learn :
Learn the value of having a time limit!
Practice capturing a scene with minimal drawing and instead use a beautiful wash of paint
Learn what to put in and what to leave out!
Learn about focal points and composition, colour and more
Materials
Watercolour cakes or colour pencils
A4 drawing sheets/ watercolour papers
Watercolour palette / a plate
Watercolour Brushes.
Pencils and black pens
Old tea towel or hand towel or paper towels
Age: 12 years + above
Date: 5th and 6th September, 2020
Day: Saturday and Sunday
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (for both days) (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Decoupage Techniques Demo with Tissues and Printed Paper by Tanvi Shah (Online session)
Interested in learning new creative technique? Make the most of being at home. Join us for an exhaustive session to explore the fascinating craft of decoupage. Stay home & learn tips, tricks and techniques to get started with items available in every home – bottles, jars, trays or plates.
You will learn to decorate an object by gluing tissues and magazine paper/ comic papers. You will get familiarized and comfortable with basics of decoupage art, which will allow you to practically create new or decorate existing diverse pieces through the art of decoupage.
Date: 16th April, 2020
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Fee: Rs 400 + taxes per person
Note: Demonstration will be followed by Question-Answers.
To stay updated on the sessions, Whatsapp us on 7259280949/ 9900052747
