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ArtShades Vision for Young Children in India

ArtShades is a creative learning approach designed to nurture imagination, emotional expression and visual understanding in young children through art. It blends colors, shapes, storytelling and hands on exploration to support development in a joyful, engaging way. ArtShades envisions making art education accessible, creative, and confidence-building for learners across India. The goal is to inspire creativity in individuals of all ages and backgrounds.

Core Elements of the Vision



  • 1. Unlocking Creative Potential, develop creativity

    Encouraging individuals across the country to discover and develop their artistic abilities, whether they are beginners or advanced learners.

  • 2. Encouraging Self-Expression

    Promoting art as a powerful medium of personal expression, confidence-building, and emotional growth.

  • 3. Structured Yet Joyful Learning

    Combining foundational art techniques such as drawing, sketching, shading, and painting with engaging and interactive teaching methods.

  • 4. Supporting Lifelong Artistic Growth

    Providing art education opportunities for children, youth, and adults to ensure continuous creative development.

  • 5. Celebrating Art as a Transformative Skill

    Encouraging observation, storytelling, and creative thinking to help individuals grow not only as artists but as confident thinkers.

Key principles


  • Play based learning - Children explore art materials freely - paint, crayons,watercolour, pencil colours.
  • Color Exploration - Learning how colors mix, change and express moods
  • Story + Art Integration - Creating drawing based on stories, feelings and imagination
  • Process over perfection - Focus on creativity and enjoyment

National Impact Vision


  • Make quality art education with imaginative skills accessible in India
  • Promote creativity as an essential life skill
  • Build confidence and innovation through artistic learning
  • Encourage cultural appreciation and artistic diversity
  • Build lifelong appreciation for art and creativity
  • Explore the power of colors in your life

ArtShades aims to contribute to a more creative, confident, and culturally enriched India through the power of colors in art education.


Tamanna

Welcome to ArtShades

My journey of art began with my morning walk. It was one wintry day, when I found a withered leaf lying on the grass. As the sun rays filtered its surface, I stepped into a whole new world of exploration.

The amazing symmetry and patterns of the leaves fascinate me so much, I started collection of leaves. Soon leaves became the subject of my paintings. I would sit for hours at a time to study the details and then put all my efforts and skills in painting. Every painting from the very beginning gave me immense satisfaction that kept me going on. And now after half a decade, I find that my skills have improved significantly and my collection of leaves has been transformed into my collection of paintings.

After having a postgraduate degree in Computer Science, and teaching Computer Science for a few years in university, I was away from my passion of drawing and painting. But after few years, I started with acrylic and sketching . I tried watercolor, from then my interest in it grew with time.

I like to paint on different new subjects. Starting with leaves, I also got interested in Still Life, Wild life, Landscapes & Sculptures.

I spend extra time during covid in trying new subjects, I challenged myself by selecting very difficult subjects which seeemed impossible in beginning which with time seemed easy. I got a good no of collections of my paintings which I completed in covid, which I have displayed on my website.

Now from Aug2023, I started taking art classes for children and adults, I think I should share techniques which i have learned during past years. I take classes in SDA, New Delhi.
I was extremely thrilled after participating in exhibitions and winning several competitions.
-> OWSD Mauritius, Topic ' Expressing Science through Art', an International Non-Governmental Organisation, Winner in the Art competition 2021!
-> Botanical Art Agency of Korea - Pleasure being a part of wonderful International Exhibition 2021 !
-> "Splendid Colors of Indonesia" - Artwork has been selected to participate in the IWS Indonesia’s 4th International Competition & Exhibition at Galeri Nasional Jakarta, Indonesia, 2022.
-> "Magical Wings" - Artwork Selected in the I International Watercolour Festival of IWS-Arte21online "Córdoba, Watercolour and World Heritage" held in Córdoba (Spain) 2022.
-> "My Freedom" - Artwork selected in 6th International Coffee and Watercolor Contest and Exhibition - HOPE OF FREEDOM 2022.
-> "Sea and Cliffs" - Artwork selected at IWS Santiago Rural Marine Landscape Ist World Watercolor Contest 2022.
-> Artwork selected at The Power of Colors 1st International Jointly Organized Online Watercolor Contest, IWS Turkey Team
-> "Splendid Colors" - Artwork selected for the exhibition, catalog and award competition of the WATERCOLOR FOR ALL contest at IWS ATELIER GALLERY SANTIAGO 2022. -> Artwork selected for Watercolor without border 2nd " exhibition in Istanbul 2023

- Tamanna
ArtShades
New Delhi
INDIA
Learn painting at ArtShades
My 20 years of expereince in different mediums of painting, helped me to explore creativity in art from different angles through various mediums. Some seemed very difficult in starting, times were there when I thought to leave it in between. But the statisfaction that came after accomplishing a task in a very difficult medium gave an immnense sense of joy and satisfaction in your life forever. I love to paint zen stones, still life (blueberrries, grapes, plums, apricots), landscapes, leaves, wild life."

Know Your Passion

The art of painting consists of exploring nature with details
This leaf changed my perspective of seeing the nature.