This story is from July 20, 2019

Bengaluru: Children use visiting cards as canvases

When the teacher of city shelter home saw children drawing landscapes in one corner of a huge page given to them, she realised they needed smaller canvases.
Bengaluru: Children use visiting cards as canvases
The exhibition had 420 artworks by 190 children.
BENGALURU: When the teacher of city shelter home saw children drawing landscapes in one corner of a huge page given to them, she realised they needed smaller canvases.
“The size of visiting cards is perfect for these tiny artistic fingers. Children from the home have always been experimental with the size and kind of canvases they use for their art. That’s when we began encouraging these children to start drawing on visiting cards,” Yugashri SA, an honorary teacher at Balya Home for Children, told TOI.

Aged between six and 16, 150 children from the shelter home took part in the exhibition at the Rangoli Metro Art Centre, where a table full of these tiny art pieces were on display on Friday. The students were left to decide the size of their work and what they wanted to draw.
Yugashri conducts regular workshops for children called Aaspada Art Workshops, where children are taught to draw on various sized papers. “Children are most comfortable with A4-size papers, but I have always encouraged them to explore different sized canvases,” said the art teacher.
“The exhibition showcases 420 art pieces made by 190 children. There were a lot more, but due to the constraints of space, we could not display all,” said the proud teacher. The number of visiting cards were too many to count, which the organisation plans to reuse.
The exhibition at Rangoli is fourth such event by Aaspada Workshop and third by Balya Home. The exhibition started on Friday and will end on Sunday.
Sakuras bloom in Bengaluru
A room full of paintings themed on Sakuras (Japanese term for cherry blossom) adorned the Rangoli Art Centre on Friday as part of a three-day exhibition organised by PICO, a Japanese Printing Company. Masaru Fukuda, the CEO of PICO said the exhibition showcases works of well-known Japanese artists like Fuzichoco, whose artwork is most shared on Japanese sharing portal pixiv. The organisers sold four paintings, each priced at Rs 1,000, within four hours of starting the exhibition.
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