On November 22nd, when the Wikipedia Academy takes place at our new coworking office, I’m planning a collaborative painting effort. It’s simple. We’ll have a 10 feet by 8 feet canvas placed on the ground. We’ll have lots of colours and many paint brushes in different sizes. We then let loose our imagination. There are no rules. There is no brief given. Anyone is free to do what he or she wants to do. The results can be quite impressive.
I’ve been thinking of how to include a physical activity that portrays the collaborative effort of Wikipedia and this one fits the bill like a ‘T’. The idea is inspired by a similar effort that was done at the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan. Over 300 folks participated and I remember all of having such fun working on it. Take a look at the eventual painting below.
I’m a newbie to painting. Need to find out what kind of canvas materias, what type of paints and what sizes of brushes. Also need to figure where to buy these materials in Chennai. If any of you have an idea, we’d be very grateful for your advice and suggestions. You can leave them at the comments below or mail me at kiruba at kiruba.com. Thanks in advance.
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Hope u folks come out with an Indianised version of a “mural”
Anitha, actually it’ll just be a potpourri of random colors. I’m sure we can pass it off euphemistically as ‘Modern Painting’!
hey!….
That’ll be super to see.
will look forward for it.
Here is collaborative painting, me and my friend worked on:
http://mybag.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/soul-met-a-collaborative-painting/
hope to see more stuff!
Hey Hari, that’s a good one. You guys did good. Cheers!
Kiruba, don’t try to start with canvas. You would waste canvas. First try with the chart papers and then switch to canvas when you are confident. Chart papers will be smooth in one side and rough in other side. Use the rough side. If you go the stationary shop (quite a big one), you can find a lot of painting materials like colours for painting in glass, pottery. If you can also try the pottery one. I suppose you may have pottery to keep plants in your house.You can try with them first.
Hi Kiruba,
Thats a wonderful idea!
White Chart papers, pastel crayons(camlin or faber castel), poster colors (camlin), sketch pens, brushes (various sizes), paper cups, paper plates (one side laminated ones) to mix colors.
You can get them from Hindustan art emporium, Egmore. You can get most of these items in any good stationary shop.
Hi
You can buy ‘Lakshmi gada cloth’ from Nalli (used to be Rs.20 a mtr) and ‘prime’ it to get the cheapest canvas. For Primer you need a few kilos of Zinc Oxide (available in all hardware shops @ Rs. 10 per kg) mixed with a tin of fevicol and water to paint consistency and paint the gada cloth and leave it overnight for drying. Gada cloth is yellowish in colour and priming with zinc oxide mixture gives it a non-porous matte-white surface to paint on. Your canvas is now ready!
Suggest you use only Acrylic paints bought in tins, as they dry faster and use water as thinner, so not a messy affair for group painting. Oil paints take a week to dry completely, and uses linseed oil as thinner, which could turn out to be very messy.
Acrylic or oil paints leave a permanent stain on floor, so you might want to be careful not to spill on absorbent floor materials.
Brushes could be bought from hardware shops (cheaper than artists brushes, and could be use-and-throw types), but nothing better than using a pair of gloved hands to splash colours, its more fun!
Enjoy!
what a gerat mindblowing painting job
Good one : -)