Opening ceremony of Fantasia
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“I painted this one,” chirped a six-year-old, pointing at a portray of Spiderman swinging between the buildings of New York Metropolis. Quite a few different children, their households, faculty college students, and professionals crowded the CP Artwork Gallery in Chennai final weekend.
Artist Priya Natarajan’s Lil Studio artwork faculty celebrated its Silver Jubilee and 60 college students participated in a thematic artwork present titled Fantasia, the place over 100 artwork items have been on show.
The fantasy-themed exhibition was inaugurated by fellow artists Lakshmi Krishnamurthy and Janaki Sabesh.
Priya has been instructing artwork for the final 25 years and likewise runs digital artwork periods for adults titled Clean Canvas since 2018.
Show of over 100 artwork items at Fantasia
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Fantasiais a celebration of all her college students coming collectively. Members are between the ages of 4 and 76, and have used completely different mediums together with watercolours, oils, acrylics and pastels to specific themselves. “It’s a prolonged course of to ideate and curate every artwork piece, so we took our time with it. This has been in curation for over six months,” mentioned Priya.
College students from the world over, together with Abu Dhabi and the US, have displayed on the exhibition in Chennai.
Shreya Anu Shekar, a fourth yr scholar on the Srishti Institute of Design in Bengaluru, who has been a scholar at Lil Studio since her childhood, mentioned, “The factor about Priya aunty is that she shouldn’t be medium restrictive and lets you discover completely different sorts of mediums. I used to participate in all her exhibitions after I was right here, and her lessons are therapeutic for me.”
Shreya’s piece is not like another on the exhibition – she makes use of the strategy of weaving as a method to categorical her thought of fantasy via layers of differently-coloured yarn, and the threads freely stream out of the body as if it’s a work in progress.
“I began studying artwork right here after I was in Class VII.Artwork is sort of a stress buster for me,” added Reethika Ravi, an Economics scholar at Stella Maris Faculty.
The exhibition was a pleasant combine of various ranges of proficiencies. Work of mythological creatures, superheroes, cartoon characters and fictional areas have been depicted. Every stroke delivered to life new realms: from lush, mystical forests to sprawling, otherworldly cityscapes.
