Painting Demonstration by Prof. Anjani Prabha Reddy, February 2020

 Painting is one such medium which allows us to express our emotions, thoughts, imagination through colours without any boundation. 

This phenomenon was well understood in a demonstration done by Prof. Anjani Prabha Reddy , former head, painting, JawaharLal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, Hyderabad. She is now working as a freelance artist. It was a good interactive session in which all the students and faculty of the Department of Fine Arts took part. She advised the students not to lose the connection with art and practice it on a daily basis. This routine will help in building up confidence and hold on various mediums along with reducing the fear related to art. Her best advice was to be unafraid in expressing any thought and keep experimenting with art we are related to. This fearless feeling was evident in the way she applied colours to the canvas. Started off with dark colors and easily kept on mixing others into it. Experimenting was just not in her words, it was visible in the way she used the tail end of a brush to create the masterpiece on the base she had applied. The next canvas was unpredictable. None of the viewers could guess the colours that came out in the end. How easily she included a human figure in the whole composition along with the supporting elements was interesting. How to work in layers without the fear of the outcome and how to compose different elements together was what every student could learn from her. No point in running away from new techniques, she said,as the great artist Picasso also said that we should do self discovery through our art and try new things and not stick to making it realistic. Prof. Anjani was kind enough to share how she practices her art and the process she goes through in coming up with one masterpiece. She breaks out of her mundane routine and experiments with different mediums and ends up discovering a new thing. Self criticism is the key to creating good paintings, that's her mantra. She ended the workshop on the note that while being a student one should learn every preset rule of art but as we grow further one should know how to unlearn those rules. One should always keep the child alive within and everytime draw fearlessly like a child.