SOAP CRAVING WORK SHOP

Soap craving working was organised for III sem Students of both A & B Division. Students craved soaps to make deifferent forms.

One day workshop-Ball point art work

Department of Architecture of KLS Gogte Institute of Technology hosted a one day workshop by eminent artist Shri Shirish Deshpande on 24^th Feb 2012. Simultaneously an Exhibition of his ball point pen artworks was also put up at  the Department.

The event started by inauguration of the exhibition by Prof Arun V Huilgol, a senior architect and academician from Hubli.  It followed by lighting of the lamp by Shri Shirish Deshpande, Prof Arun V. Huilgol, Head of the Department Prof Nishita R Tadkodkar and other dignitaries.

Shri  Deshpande introduced the technique of ball point pen paintings to the students and staff and demonstrated the same by making a small painting to the audience. This followed by the workshop in which students took part enthusiastically and created wonderful artworks by the end of the day. The exhibition is kept open to people for two days. The exhibition received a very good response.

Shri Shirish Deshpande is a very famous ball point pen artist and is currently ranked 9^th in top 100 ball point pen artists in the world. He has worked in a number of fields such as communication design, Graphic design, Software use interface, Digital photography, etc. before discovering his passion for ball point pen renderings in 2008. His paintings are in numerous collections in India, UK, Germany, Australia and USA.