Ink Drawing & Ink Wash with Took Gee Arsa Artha

Tjok Gde Arsa Artha $360/senior $340 plus $10 materials fee
Create beautiful Ink Drawing and Ink Wash artworks with Tjok Gde Arsa Artha. Learn the subtle approach to drawing and creating an image by applying lines using a variety of tools and techniques including traditional homemade bamboo pens and brushes used for ink wash on paper (a smoother medium such as watercolor paper is recommended). This class is open to all levels. Bamboo pens and ink will be provided. A materials list will be sent upon registration.
We are told, rightly so, that is great fun to be able to draw and paint. If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing creatively. Whatever you do, do it for the enjoyment you get from it, and the pleasure you share with everything around you and beyond.
Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha studied all the traditional arts of his Bali homeland from an early age. Arriving in New York in the early eighties, he attended the Arts Students League in New York City on scholarship. Through the Asia Society of New York and other organizations, he has frequently participated in programs representing the visual and performing arts of Bali, including music and dance performances, workshops, and demonstrations of Balinese techniques in painting, carving, crafts, and dance. He has exhibited in Bali’s Puri Lukisan Museum in Ubud, throughout NYC and the Hudson Valley region. He has been commissioned by UNICEF to paint “The Little Cowboy” for the Flags of the United Nations. Artha has been a grant recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, an adjunct professor at Bard College, a member of the Giri Mekar, a community gamelan orchestra in the Hudson Valley, and is the current Director of The Pomona Cultural Center in Rockland. He resides in Pomona, NY with his family.
F83 12 sessions starting Thu. Sep. 14 1:00-4:00pm