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
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.
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
To stay updated on the sessions, Whatsapp us on https://chat.whatsapp.com/CP1RliwfMNdDZnoCJaclOn
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)
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)
Create your positivity galaxy – Free online session
An abstract galaxy like background, with some positive words to uplift your spirit during this lockdown situation. Let’s relax and make this piece of art, and remind ourselves to find the happiness within.
Materials: watercolors (cakes/ tubes), palette, paint brush (preferably large, round), watercolor paper or thick card sheet (170gsm and above), fine tip marker/sketch pen/gel pen/ball pen.
Date: 13th April, 2020
Day: Monday
Time: 3:30 pm
For joining the session, Whatsapp us on 7259280949/ 9900052747.
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
Decoupaged Bottle Lamp Making – Online Live Workshop
In this project you will learn:
– How to make hole in the glass bottle.
– Decorating our glass bottle with decoupage technique.
– Learning basic steps to do wiring of lampshade.
– Fixing the bulb holder to the mouth of bottle.
– Finishing our final product with lampshade.
– Learn all the basic of drilling, electrical work, crafting in one workshop.
Materials required
For Decoupage –
– 1 empty bottle primed either with gesso or white acrylic paint
– Brushes
– Paint
– Decoupage glue
– Decoupage tissues
For Lamp –
– Two core wire
– Plug
– Bulb holder
– Screwdriver
– Glue
For Drilling –
– Basic drilling machine
– Glass drilling bit..8 mm
– Safety tools
– Safety gear goggle & gloves
– Water
*Lamp Shade can be put later and are easily available on amazon. In case a participant is unable to complete the entire process or wishes to see and do it later, the recorded video will be available for later view.
Day & Date: Sunday 14th June Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST) Fees: Rs 600 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges) Venue: Online classes on Zoom
Watercolor florals with Me With A Pencil – Two days live online session
Learn to paint vibrant and modern watercolor florals in loose style. Step by step guide to design, compose and paint your very own beautiful floral art piece.
You’ll need to keep these items handy for the workshop: Thick paper, watercolour paints, tissues, a palette and brushes.
Flow of workshop:
– Introduction
– Basics of Watercolour
– Basics of loose florals
– Brush Strokes
– Two types of leaves and branches
– Two different wreaths
– Five different types of flowers
Date: 16th and 17th May, 2020
Day: Saturday and Sunday
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Venue: Online session on zoom
