Introduction to Indian Miniature Painting
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This course will give students a thorough understanding of the materials, procedures and skills required to make a traditional Indian Mughal miniature painting. Students will follow a process that has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years since the time of Akbar and the Mughal ateliers of northern India.
Students will be taken step by step through the various stages: preparing handmade paper; grinding and mixing paint; tracing subject matter using pigment paper; colour filling; burnishing with agate stone; learning how to use a squirrel hair brush for fine detailing; applying liquid gold; further fine shading (perdacht), and how to apply a decorated border. Finally, students will burnish one last time to create a finished painting ready for display.
Students will choose between three designs selected by the tutor, and they will work on prepared A4 vasli paper. There will be no provision for larger design and paper. For the purpose of the course, we ask students to not bring outside projects and their own paper to the class.
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About
This course will give students a thorough understanding of the materials, procedures and skills required to make a traditional Indian Mughal miniature painting. Students will follow a process that has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years since the time of Akbar and the Mughal ateliers of northern India.
Students will be taken step by step through the various stages: preparing handmade paper; grinding and mixing paint; tracing subject matter using pigment paper; colour filling; burnishing with agate stone; learning how to use a squirrel hair brush for fine detailing; applying liquid gold; further fine shading (perdacht), and how to apply a decorated border. Finally, students will burnish one last time to create a finished painting ready for display.
Students will choose between three designs selected by the tutor, and they will work on prepared A4 vasli paper. There will be no provision for larger design and paper. For the purpose of the course, we ask students to not bring outside projects and their own paper to the class.
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