The leather puppetry of Andhra Pradesh is amongst the oldest shadow puppet traditions. Leather puppets and Lamp shades are one of the attributes pf Andhra Pradesh art and crafts. This art is known as “Tholu Bommalata in Telugu. Traditionally this art was used to make big leather puppets of Gods and Goddess but has now taken a contemporary twist with hand painted floral and traditional motifs on lamps and other things.
As a part of this Masterclass, Catterfly Art Curators curates diverse themes along with native artists .This Catterfly masterclass for online learners focuses on the basic techniques, motifs and how to depict emotion on portraits while adhering to a strict set of rules.
In the upcoming sessions our master artist Mr Shinde Sriramulu, a native from Andhra Pradesh will teach you a range of themes related to this art form.
**For Catterfly Art Workshops, sometimes we use the reference image from internet to teach the methods and techniques of traditional art rather than copying the sample image. Traditional arts of India in general suffer from lack of documentation and copyright issues and Catterfly is helping the traditional artist to ensure that they get their dues. At no stage it is intentioned to sell the copyrighted art of any artist with the name of other artist. All the art products which are sold on Catterfly website are the original art work of the artist whose name is mentioned alongside the artwork.**
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