15 February 2014, Saturday
10:00 a.m to 12.00 a.m
That was a great memorable day!!
Muralidharan Alagar Sir and Amiltha from Chennai met
Susithra, Soodamani(Appa) and Dr.Harishankar for the first time, right inside
the temple near the large gopuram at the back of karupanaswamy’s place. After a
little while, new members, Animation student Sathish kumar and Oviar
Prabhakaran joined us. We all introduced ourselves.
Being the first group visit, we dint find much time to roam
around and sketch different locations, instead we sat near the gopuram and
discussed a lot. Though Susithra had to leave for an exam and Murali sir to a
family function (that was just less than a 2 hour meeting), that was memorable
and valuable sharing, learning and sketching experience.
Susithra showed her previous works while Sathish showed his
wonderful digital paintings, Murali sir showed his live and quick sketches made
at various outdoor trips and explained how he used the pencil/ pen and ink
medium in the pictures. He also told us how we can perceive various levels of
abstraction while starting to sketch, use of bold single strokes, through basic
shapes like circles, triangles and lines. He told us about planning a
composition while sketching at locations. His tips and techniques such as 8
heads, using a mirror to identify mistakes, shrinking our eyes to have an
abstract view, sketching gestures etc.. were useful. We got to know about
pastels which serve as a tool to learn better about blending of colours and it
helps working with acrylic colors.
Amiltha and Appa took some snaps.
Susithra and Harishankar sir sketched a pic - the view of
the temple just from the place where we met while Sathish made nice miniature
sketches of the temple and gestures with pen.
Through regular study, trials and experiments and continuous
practice …. Art is loooong and enjoyable!!
Happy Weekend!
Hoping wonderful regular trips like this :)
-Susithra Soodamani-
