“It is totally amazing to be in your class, to be inspired by all your brilliant work. Thank you for creating such a great environment for me to learn and also thank you for all your encouragement. I’m a big fan of yours and I feel proud, happy and honored to be called as your student. I hope, someday with all your guidance, I shall make you proud by my own art-work.” - Ashish.
As a child, I never thought about art as something that I could do. The idea of drawing as
a class or hobby was not something that I experienced until later in my life, in 3rd or 4th grade.
But I lacked the patience and basics needed to replicate the pieces I did in class. I soon
dropped out of that class and was only reintroduced to an art class when I was in 8th grade, in
Girish Uncle’s class. This time, the stakes were different: without a large amount of experience
in art, I had to work alongside friends who had been partaking in the skill for quite some time. As we started with
pencils, the only thing I could think about was to calm down my nerves.
Eventually, the nervousness changed to mild worry, to irritability at a mistake, and finally to a
sort of confidence. From then on, I have learned pencil sketching, pastel pictures, portraits (to
an extent), and oil painting, all thanks to Girish Uncle’s guidance.