Tie and Dye, Shibori with Natural Material – Live online session
This workshop is an experience to come together and to play with living colours and feel the feel the joy of making and spontaneity through ancient textile design techniques.
Everyday wastes like onion peel, used tea leaves, coffee powder, dried pomegranate peel are some of our magic ingredients used in this process. This workshop gives you hands on experience of playing with ancient textile design techniques and art forms of Shibori (Japan) and Bandhej (India).The participants will pleat, pluck & twist the fabrics to create their unique explorations and dye their cloth (T-shirt) using the method/techniques taught.
You can do a hands-on session with the artist if you do have the following materials ready, else you could join in for the session and clarify all your queries post the session. We will be creating a whatsapp group for ease of communication and clarification of doubts.
Materials required:
1. PRE washed cloth/ old garment (You can keep multiple small swatches of cloth if you want to try different techniques on each, provided you have enough dye solution)
2. Nylon thread (Must)
3. Binding props ( buttons, beads, nails etc )
4. Pole (optional)
5. Clear Tape
6. Random shaped Wood cut pieces (optional)
7. Large metal clips (optional)
8. A potful Organic household stuff like onion peel / tea wastes (Must)
9. Alum (Ideal) or common salt for now.
10. A vessel to boil the peels,teawaste etc.
Date: 14th May, 2020
Day: Thursday
Time: 4 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and Convenience charges)
Venue: Online session on zoom
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
Starry Sky and Mountains Painting – Free Online Session
Galaxies and stars look magical and are super easy when made with watercolors. It is therapeutic and fun to make. And the whimsical style makes it even more mesmerising. Let’s learn how to make this cute, postcard sized starry sky painting.
Materials: watercolors (cakes/ tubes), palette, paint brushes (preferably 1 large, round and 1 small, round) , watercolor paper or thick card sheet. Even though a small postcard size is mentioned, any size would do according to your preference.
Date: 5th May, 2020
Days: Tuesday
Time: 4 pm (IST)
Perfect for our younger Zumba® fans! Kids 5-12 years old get the chance to be active and jam out to their favorite music.
How It Works
Zumba® Kids classes feature kid-friendly routines based on original Zumba® choreography. It is easy to follow a routine.
Benefits
Helps develop a healthy lifestyle and incorporate fitness as a natural part of children’s lives by making fitness fun. Classes incorporate key childhood development elements like leadership, respect, team work, confidence, self-esteem, memory, creativity, coordination, cultural awareness.
About the instructor –
Namrata is Founder and Partner at Echo Academy that specializes in Zumba, Dance and Fitness. Have 14+ years of experience in dance and fitness.
She has hosted several top international Zumba performers, anchoring warmups for several marquee marathon events and partnered with many corporates in bringing fun and fitness closer to work. She is associated with Spirit of Wipro Run, Boston, and is invited to Boston every year to lead the warm-up session at their marathon.
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.
Food Illustration with Hemali Mehta (Online-live Session)
Do you love food? Want to capture amazing delicacies in your hand-drawn sketches this summer? Then this workshop is for you.
Food illustration food sketching is a great way to record your connection with food. This is a two hour workshop, where you’ll learn and sketch croissant and other dessert.
You will:
– Learn the value of having a time limit!
– Practice capturing a scene with minimal drawing and instead use a beautiful wash of paint and ink pens.
– Learn what to put in and what to leave out!
– Learn about focal points and composition, colour and more.
Materials required:
– Watercolors
– Pens (black), water resistant recommended
– A4 papers for practice
– A5 watercolor paper or a thick white paper
– Pencil and eraser
– Water container and old kitchen towel
Date: 2nd May, 2020 Day: Saturday Time: 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm (IST) Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
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
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
Bloom & Grow is hosting a free session on One Stroke Technique. One Stroke Painting is a double loading technique that consists of loading a brush with two separate colours. In this session, you will be thought the basics of loading the brush, creating the basic strokes, the formation of a flower and a composition using these basic strokes.
Materials needed: Drawing sheet/ Paper, Acrylic colors (any 2 colors is fine), One Flat brush (Any No.6 to No. 11), Rag cloth, Plate/ Palette, Water
Date: 23rd April 2020
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm IST
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Reverse Decoupage and Image Transfer – Exhaustive Demonstration Live Session
Participants will learn the following two techniques in the sessions:
1) Reverse decoupage is a technique when print and paints are applied underneath the glass. Reverse decoupage will add a wonderful dimension to your crafting skills. We will learn the reverse decoupage on a plate. Post the session, You may use the same technique to recycles/upcycle glass bottles.
2) Image Transfer is the art of transferring the print on to the surface. After attending the session, you will be able to use this technique on any possible type of surface such as canvas, metal, the glass you will be able to transfer an image on the surface you want to!
The exhaustive demonstration live session would be followed by Question and Answers.
Date: 29th April 2020
Day: Wednesday
Time: 3 pm to 4:30 pm IST
Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
‘Spice up the world’ A ‘cook along’ introduction to different cuisines with Sheenu Duggal by Bloom and Grow.
The lockdown has been a good time to pick up on new skills especially skills like cooking which are also survival skills. So why not do it in style. Sheenu will take us throughout the world introducing few recipes that we can learn and quickly dish up too. This workshop is suitable for adults and kids with parental guidance engaging us in family bonding time as well. We’ve received lovely feedback post our free trial session with Sheenu and we are happy to offer you a structured and curated workshop.
Faux calligraphy (also known as fake calligraphy) is a fun and simple way to learn lettering and calligraphy. It imitates the look of some styles of calligraphy using simple tools.
The best part is that you can do faux calligraphy with any sort of writing tool that you have!
Materials required : paper (ruled or unruled, thick or regular A4, anything would do), pen/fine marker/sketch pens, ruler, pencil, eraser.
Date: 18th and 19th April, 2020
Day: Saturday and Sunday
Timing: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Fee: Rs 500 + taxes per person
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)
Resin art and Geode making with Sonali Rao – Online session
Resin is a two-part compound that hardens to give a clear and glossy finish. Geode is a geological formation consisting of volcanic rocks, minerals, sediments, crystals, etc. Using the resin medium, we would be bringing out patterns with resin, stones, crystals, etc. to create a geode look-alike.
Learn making geode.
Understand what is geode.
See original geode and learn how to replicate them with resin.
Learn what all semi precious stones can be used in resin.
Other materials which can be used in resin.
How to use texture paste in resin
You can take notes step by step so so it will be helpful when you are going to do with material.
If you want do along, you need the following materials:
– Resin and hardener
– Pigments
– Base board
– Weighing scale
– Leveller (also available on mobile apps)
– Blow dryer/heat gun
– Blow torch
– Gloves
– Plastic glass
– Paper cups
– Popsticks
– Tissue paper
– Straw
– Crystals, glass pieces etc. (optional for geode)
Day & Date: Saturday, 4th July
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 600 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Note:
* Demonstration will be followed by Question-Answers and the trainer will be accessible later as well.
* Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in.
* Registered participants will be sent a pre- preparation video a day prior to the workshop.
