Workshop: Ramayana Painting

Telling stories through ancient paintings is an interesting activity. It becomes more interesting when art classes in schools are involved. 

I visited a school in Tartu in November 2014 to show how ancient paintings have been used in postage stamps to tell the story of Ramayana. Students had a great time seeing the Ramayana paintings in stamps and trying to paint them.

https://raatuse.tartu.ee/et/uudised/2014-2015-uudised/ponev-kulaline-indiast-raakis-ramajana-eeposest?highlight=WyJyYW1hamFuYSJd

Do you want to learn storytelling Ramayana using drawing/painting? I created a Twitter contest DrawingAStory on Ramayana, where you can draw / paint stories of Ramayana using any genre of painting (ancient art, contemporary art, folk & tribal art, cartoons & illustrations, digital & new age art, etc). Selected drawings/paintings will be retweeted. Follow the steps to participate in the contest.

1. Draw / paint characters based on Ramayana

2. Describe the drawing/painting with a short text

3. Tweet the drawing/painting and the short text with the hashtag #DrawingAStory