Travel: Your middle artist awaits we in Karla nearby Lonavala

If you are formulation a getaway, here’s one with a difference. Next weekend, attend in a two-day art seminar in a relaxed precinct of Karla, 20 mins from Lonavala. Titled Art-O-Nova, a seminar will be conducted by painter Vijaya Kalyan, who has been awarded a pretension of a ‘Millennium Artists’ by 2000 Foundation — The Netherlands, and has worked as an art consultant in Aamby Valley.

The Buddhist Karla Caves circuitously will be a source of impulse for guests
The Buddhist Karla Caves circuitously will be a source of impulse for guests

“The thought behind a weekend getaway with an activity is to inspire people to obey themselves to a sourroundings and leave with a clarity of belonging,” says Mohit Gupta, owner of Velvett Homestays, that curates alternatives to hotels along a Konkan seashore and a Mediterranean seashore in Spain.

With a limit ability of 50, a seminar will be conducted during Lilac Homestay, a 70-acre skill featuring plush apartments (available on twin-sharing basis) within a gated community. With private trustworthy gardens and balconies unaware a lofty Sahyadris, a space is ideal for fuelling your artistic energies, believes a team.

The homestay apartments
The homestay apartments

The art seminar will start with 3 tiny experiments to know palm and eye coordination. “They are a array of elementary exercises to make a participants wakeful that art exists in their bland life. It will assistance open their minds to a creations and designs they are surrounded with. We will control a exercises outdoors,” says Kalyan.

Vijaya Kalyan
Vijaya Kalyan

Later, guest will be presented with a accumulation of element to emanate a square of art that they can take home with them. “We will use materials like soothing steel wire, paper, magazines and objects found easily. Techniques like paper quilling and papier mâché will also be used in formulating a artworks. The circuitously Karla Caves and a birthright forts, that were once a bottom of mythological artist Raja Ravi Varma, are there to be a source of a impulse for a participants,” adds Kalan. It also includes a bonfire and a widespread of internal Maharashtrian cuisine. What’s not to like?

From Sep 10 to 11
At Lilac Homestay, Karla, nearby Lonavala.
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Call 9167977626
Cost Rs 7,500 (inclusive of meals, reserve and equipments)

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