In Warli - Life is a gift to be celebrated and the ancient Earth is one to be worshipped.
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A Warli Art Creation by Artist Shriya. *This is for reference. The workshop image is different.
Overview
Warli is one of the oldest art form with origin back to 2500 BC of Neolithic age when human were cave dwellers. Warli tribal community from Maharashtra used to decorate their mud houses scenes from daily life like dancing, festivals, harvesting, wedding, hunting in which simple motifs of human, animals and natural element are created in a loose rhythmic pattern.
Warli's are said to be hunters, but over time, agriculture became an integral part of their life. All the functions relating to agriculture like reaping, threshing and sowing are accompanied by rituals. The harvesting season begins with worshipping 'Kansari', the goddess of Agriculture. Harvest festival is celebrated by making of toran at the village entrance, offering fresh harvest to the Lord, feeding the cattle and finally sitting together and enjoying the feast in hope of being able to enjoy a rich harvest again, next year.
Warli Folk Art - Painting Harvesting in Warli Village
We are pleased to announce Warli folk art, a course of 2 classes in which the artist will explain and guide you to complete a painting depicting Warli Harvesting.
Date: 6 - 7 January, 2021 (Wednesday, Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Fee (2 Class): Rs. 900
You will learn different Warli motifs and complete a Warli drawing of your own. • Warli Farming Activities - Sowing Seeds, planting, reaping and threshing the crop • Warli Farmer ploughing paddy field with Bulls • Warli - cattle herd walking to the field. • Warli village activities - fishing, collecting water from river • Warli Human figure in different pose - carrying harvest produce, cooking, reaping crop, feeding cattle • Warli Borders • Warli - Tree, Birds and animals • Warli Geometric patterns and symbols
* No prior experience needed.
* Fee is inclusive of taxes.
* Seats are limited to maintain small-group of participants to ensure personal attention from the trainer. Please book in advance.
Materials Required
- A3 ( 11.7 x 16.5 inch) size art paper (120 GSM or more). * You can use color paper - red/black/brown/orange with white pen. White/yellow paper with black pen.
- Black Pen/ Black Gel pen and Black Sketch Pen/ Marker Pen. You can use microtip or pigment pen if you have.
- If you are using white pen - Use Sakura gelly Roll white gel Pen or anything similar.
- Pencil, scale, erasers.
- 2-3 rough drawing paper for practice.
About The Artist:
Shriya is an interior designer by profession and is an artist by passion. She has a keen interest in folk arts and has been studying, practicing and teaching Warli art for almost 7 years now. She has made Warli art works to the scale of an entire wall and also on many pillars in colleges and houses. Being a paper florist herself, she explores with crepe paper and other materials to create stunning replicas of flowers found in nature. She also occasionally indulges in making customized dream-catchers.
How to Join this workshop?
- Register from ' Join The Workshop' link and make payment. - The workshop will be conducted online over 'Zoom App'. - Meeting link and Id will be shared on the day of the workshop by WhatsApp. - Check Promotion/ Spam Tab of your email account for emails coming from 50+ Voyagers and drag them to the inbox, to ensure you get events and tour related emails from us.