The artists aspiring to learn different forms of paintings have an opportunity to learn the ages old tribal art. A painting workshop is being organised in city for the artists where the students would discover the colourful world of tribal art.
The workshop began from Wednesday at Bhojpur Club. It is organized by Artizen group. Renowned tribal artist Manoj Thekam is teaching the art of Gond Painting to the participants.
It is to be noted that these paintings are basically based on the Vastu and traditions of its area.
The tribal people live with their tradition and define it in their creativity and all the paintings have distinctive features.
Gond paintings portray the scenes, birds, animals and human faces on dark and vibrant colours.
The paintings have brown or black base.
Gond paintings can best be described as ‘on line work’. The artist makes sure to draw the inner as well as outer lines with as much care as possible so that the perfection of the lines has an immediate effect on the viewer.
Lines are used in such a way that it conveys a sense of movement to the still images. Dots and dashes are added to impart a greater sense of movement and increase the amount of detail.
Another very striking facet of Gond paintings has to be the use of bright vivid colours such as white, red, blue and yellow.
The paints are usually derived naturally from objects such as charcoal, coloured soil, plant sap, leaves and even cow dung.
The workshop will continue till Thursday.