The Red Dot Art International Woman's Day Embossing Workshop

Red Dot Art / INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WORKSHOPS

EMBOSSING

Red Dot Art, together with International Woman's Day ran a series of art workshops in The Annexe to demonstrate the Indian Embossing technique as Taught by Smita Verma Who is a Red Dot Art member visiting Scotland from Rajasthan.

Smita has been making embossed paintings for 10 years and has been professional for 5 years. Origonaly, Smita worked with traditional embossing techniques which are done on leather on smaller artworks.

Smita has always had a love for henna There are lots of occasions in Rajasthan where henna is applied to the hands and bodies of women as part of their ceremonial make up. It is a tradition for the ladies to put on henna on their bodies before a ritual.

Smita combines the decorative henna designs, clasical Indian painting styles and embossing to create her artworks.

Her emossing style has now been adapted and developed to produce larger scale paintings using techniques arrived at from applying henna .

The first step of embossing is to draw your design on the board.

You are only limited by your imagination and skill.

Next, a special mix is made from chalk, PVA and resin. This mix is then put inside a "special tool" or cone ( poly bag)

and applied to the design building up the embossed effect with each layer.

	Designs can be very intricate and sophisticated and heavy embossing gives a very 3D effect. This board looks as if the design has been carved out.

Finally once when all the layers of embossing have dried on the board the art work can be painted and inlayed with gold and semiprecious stones.

To see more of Smita Verma's work visit the Red Dot Art Gallery in the World / Traditional section.

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