Pixel Picassos will draw digital dreams in city

Art Underground, India’s first digital art gallery, archive and interaction facility, will conduct the 1999 Intel-Epson Digital Art Workshop at Herwitz Gallery from May 27 to June 9.

The Ahmedabad workshop is the concluding workshop of the three-city digital art workshop series promoted by Intel and Epson Singapore Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore, Surat and now in Ahmedabad. Senior artist Dashrath Patel who recently held a retropspective of his work in New Delhi inaugurated the workshop.

The workshop is open to children in the age group of six to 18 years. A few seats are also available for amateur artists, adults and senior citizens with a creative urge.

It will provide the participant, a hand on experience in digital creativity. Based on Art Underground’s experience with computers and creativity for the past two years, the workshop participants will be taken through basic aesthetic experiments and exercises with a range of digital techniques and given an exposure to image enhancement in Adobe Photoshop.

They will be introduced to an entirely new dimension of creativity through accessories like digital cameras, scanners and printers.

A team of painters will lead the workshop from the MS University of Baroda and Art India founders Nadini and Amitabh Gandhi and Dinesh Rajput. Special inputs will be provided by Amit Khersani, a calligraphy expert, Jayanti Naik will interact with the children on the nuances of the digital stroke.

Paulomi Shah of Mapin Publishers will lead the session on painting with different types. Ramesh Mulye, a Mumbai-based digital artist, will lead the session on digital collages.

Four, batches of two hours have been organised. The high, points of the workshop include the Epson Award for creative digital art and Epson Singapore Pvt. Limited for the best creative digital art portfolio by the participants. The awardee will be given an Epson stylus colour printer.

There is also the Intel award for excellence for which the participant with the most outstanding creation will be paid Rs I0,000. Then there are Epson print-of-the-day awards. The workshop will end with a digital art group show and an auction.

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