Hello!
MY NAME IS Kamini Prakash
Art is a sublime way for everybody to express themselves, be creative, relieve stress or enjoy themselves. Unfortunately, these are the first programs to be cut in current economic times. I believe that kids need a chance to shine their creativity in more ways than we can aspire for. Art can be therapeutic and can transform the mundane into magic.
Painting has been a hobby for me since childhood. I had never thought I would devote so much time to art as an adult and make it my full-time career.
There used to be a Bengali Art Teacher who used to come to my home once a week. I looked forward eagerly to the weekly drawing and painting class, and I used to paint often after exams or during vacations.
I started studying and experimenting with art in various forms on my own after my M.sc in 1999. I gathered information regarding art and painting from periodicals, newspapers, and roadside book vendors. I kept visiting art exhibitions and explored here and there. It became my habit to collect prints of paintings and valuable materials from old magazines and papers sold in art fairs and book fairs.
It was a dream come true when I could display my paintings to the public for the first time in 2000 at my residence. The response to the exhibition was very good and gave me the confidence to paint professionally. In my first exhibition itself, I was able to get a few orders.
Since then, I have done a solo art exhibition in Houston, USA. I have been acclaimed by the Houston Chronicle and Bon Appetit-2002 annual issue of the interior magazine of USA. I also made exclusive artwork for the Health Club of a five-star hotel- Park Plaza, Ludhiana.
I have experience in teaching still life, life drawing, perspective, figures, compositions, portraits, cartooning, designing and many more. I guide the students for entrance examinations of designing schools and architecture colleges, including art colleges.
Just interest and feeling are enough for art. I believe that anyone must have the ability to go far beyond cut and paste. The teacher’s job is to teach students, how to see it in a new way, while understanding how to draw and paint.
I show my students that, what may look challenging to draw at first glance, is simple once they learn how to see it piece by piece. Any student who loves art should understand an artist's essential qualities like how to measure with the eye and how to break something into small parts and put it back together to make a whole picture. Starting with simple two-dimensional work, students progress to adding tone and color values to create three-dimensionality.
I teach various types of drawings and work on painting mediums, such as graphite, charcoal, pen and ink, pastels, watercolours, acrylic, oils and more.