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CHAITALI'S ART CLASSES

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NAGUESH  RAO  SARDESSAI

Chaitali Morajkar’s ‘Paint Club Goa ‘ has done it again by organising an art exhibition of creative works done by children attending her art classes conducted in Mapusa.

This show, organised in collaboration with Lions Club of Mapusa, at the Art Gallery of Kala Academy, Goa, had about hundred and fifty paintings, over hundred drawings and nearly fifty craft pieces created out of waste material. Chaitali, a professional artist with over a decade and half years of experience in the field, forayed into teaching art to students around six years back. With few students to begin with, she has now over sixty attending her classes. Having trained more than four hundred art aspirants till date, Chaitali has created a niche for herself in this field.

A noted contemporary artist herself, with several awards and numerous exhibitions that includes solo as well as group events to her credit, Chaitali has the competence and the experience to guide and facilitate child’s creative growth in the most systematic manner.

Each of the student seem to have created their art piece, be it painting, drawing or craft item, with a lot of passion. Offering total freedom, Chaitali guides them independently with an aim to facilitate individual expressive ability and enhance their creative capabilities. She made them work with the ‘Elements of Art’ such as lines, forms, colours, shapes, space and texture.

Fourth exhibition in a row, this one had over hundred students presenting their creations. Drawing section saw the skill of these students in handling the basics like lines. Painting section had variety with mundane objects like scissors getting transformed into a monster animal, regular geographical map mutating into colourful play forms, regular printed photographs from the news magazines morphed into painted background to create a fresh context etc.

Craft objects, placed under the title ‘Little Plastic Monster’ were more of an exercise in sensitising the young participants of the dangers of excessive use of plastic. Each of the craft items were created out of hard plastic bottles, cups and other items.

Mehal Parab, Yuvraj Sinh Rane, Shlok Navekar, Avani Telang, Svetlana Coelho, Aarush Zarapkar, Pearl Khanolkar, Anju Rajbhar, Shivam R. Naik, Ridhi Korgaonkar and Ojas Parab displayed appreciable creativity and craftsmanship.

Employing varied medium like pencil, watercolour, acrylics etc. the participants put up their best works.

Concluding day of the show had young and enthusiastic artist Siddharth Kerkar presenting internationally recognised artists who create off-beat works and employ unconventional medium.      

        

   

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