Peranakan Painting Workshop(for kids and adults)

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The Workshop’s inspiration

The unique Peranakan culture in general and the highly ornate tiles used to decorate their shophouses

The Peranakan culture is a unique hybrid culture that is still part of Singapore’s living heritage. In this workshop we get our inspiration from the tiles charac-terised by elaborate design and a brilliant colour palette which were intro-duced to Peranakan shophouses as the culture reached its richest phase.

Ps. this is not a ceramic tile painting class but Acrylic on canvas, and inspired by the Peranakan tiles.

joo chiat, katong, east coast, tanjong pagar,Little India, Emerald Hill and Jalan Besar are some of the locations around Singapore where Peranakan shophouses decorated with tiles can be seen.

Peranakan Inspired Painting (and Collage)

This is a four-week workshop or an ongoing weekly workshopWorkshop are available for kids and adults of all skill levelsWorkshop duration: 2.5-3 hrsInstructor: Rasha Eleyan

Complete an acrylic on canvas painting with a Peranakan design at the end of each weekly session to be part of your four piece Collage (with the option of adding more pieces). With the aid of stencils specially made for this workshop and bearing designs of the most popular Peranakan tiles found at various locations around Singapore.

The objective of this workshop is to learn a little about the unique Peranakan culture, motifs, colour pallette to help the student in making con�dent color choices, to create four small artworks that can be displayed individually or together as a collage.

A four piece collageAcrylic on canvas20 x 20 cm each

20 cm

20 cm

Workshop description:

15 minutes light hearted powerpoint presentation about:- Who are the Peranakans? The culture and it’s origins- What are Peranakan tiles (their use and signi�cance in the culture, Motifs, colour palette)- Some photos of Peranakan tiles seen around Singapore.

Introduction to the materials and how to use them:-Acrylic paint and brushes-1 stretched canvas size 20x20 cm per child per class-The use of stencils bearing Peranakan designs

After the introduction to the culture and materials students are guided in painting their tile with their own colors of choice as some like to be inspired by the Peranakan Palette while others prefer to create their own.

At the end of each weekly workshop every student would’ve created one 20x20 cm painting to be part of a collage that can contain as many standard size “tile paintings” as they wish to create, making it an interesting 4 week workshop or a continu-ous weekly workshop.

The Peranakan Color Palette

Stencils with popular Peranakan tile designs were created digitally by Rasha and then 3D printed specially for students to use in this work-shop, new designs are added regularly to the collection.

Materials:

Acrylic paint and brushes. one (20x20 cm) stretched canvas per child per class.

joo chiat, katong, east coast, tanjong pagar,Little India, Emerald Hill and Jalan Besar are some of the locations around Singapore where Peranakan shophouses decorated with tiles can be seen.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding (kids and/or adults) workshops.

Rasha Eleyan+65 9630 7720

rasha@rashaeleyan.com.sgwww.rashaeleyan.com.sg

Photos from a recent Kids Workshops

Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding (kids and/or adults) workshops.

Rasha Eleyan+65 9630 7720

rasha@rashaeleyan.com.sgwww.rashaeleyan.com.sg

Photos from a recent Adults Workshops