Working with different groups of children the workshops followed a similar format today, rickshaw components and block printed paper and fabric.
In the morning the rickshaw components workshop followed the theme of boats, some children drew images about their memories of visits to Bangladesh, others made up images. The children painted their designs on primed metal foil using acrylics, the format of the images was similar to the large panels seen at the back of the cycle rickshaws.
In the afternoon a second group of children worked on self portraits, sometimes in quite unreal colours.
Some included decorative boarders and produced some great results.
The groups rotated so that children were able to experience both printing and painting processes.
Lokesh showed examples of his work and explained how they were printed.
The older children had a greater sense of format and composition and once they had worked through the initial excitment of inking up a block and randomly stamping, produced some wonderful patterns especially when they included coloured papers.
Again we showed the children images of the Block printers in Newmarket, Dhaka.
