Students try their hand at paper artwork

Good Morning Friends. It’s a good thing to hear that students try their hands at paper artwork. With this all the creativity of the children will be applied. It’s not easy, but it can be learned. Full concentration will be needed to create a good artwork.Aashna Parikh, a class XII student of Udgam School for children had come to National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. She wanted to do something constructive during her summer vacation.

Today, as she steps out of the NID heritage campus, Parikh has her masterpiece ready which she plans to flaunt to her friends and family. Parikh is not alone. Each participant of the summer workshop for paper craft at the institute created a masterpiece. Be it a lamp shade, mask, a natural cut out or a face statue, all made of paper are craft items made during the workship.

"Paper craft is an art as old as paper itself. Most participants who came here were beginners and thus had to start from the basics. Since there were many children, we stuck to paper folding more than paper cutting, because that is easier to do. But the kind of work that the participants have done shows that it has opened up their imagination," said Naran Patel, former NID faculty, who took the session.

There was also a summer workshop on calligraphy conducted by Amit Kharsani, a visiting faculty at the institute. "There was a lot of diversification in participants. While housewives wanted to learn for their children, children were participating to improve their handwriting," Kharsani said.