MURALS By Priyanka Thaker

M U R A L S

Wall paintings by Priyanka Thaker

Priyanka Thaker is an artist also an architect. She got her degree from Arvindbhai Patel Institute of Environmental Design which is in Anand, Gujarat. 

While attending her lecture she told us about her Street Art which is on walls. Mainly in the area of 

                                       Dhal Ni Pole - Ahmedabad

Dhal Ni Pole - 31st Aug 2019

She told us about "What is Design?", she defined Design as a process of making innovative things it is also defined as doing or planning something with a particular purpose or aim in mind. On the other hand, the design is solving the problem through different kinds of iteration processes as well as forming certain valuable needs on its solution approach.

And then she asked us about the differences between Art and Craft and then she told us

Craft as something physical, traditional process of creating. Craft is something that you make with your hands, but not necessarily something that you use to pass on your point of view. It often involves making something that is functional.

The next thing was the introduction of Street Art and then Graffiti Art.

After all these introductions we were finally able to witness her works.

Picture 1

In this art, she talked about the reason behind using the Yellow colour in the background. This painting itself made at Dhal Ni Pole on one of the buildings. This art is mixed with the human body and animal face. The Animal heads are painted with different colours and to bring the idea of thinking in the head is the main motive of the picture. This picture contains a variety of animals like

Parrot's head, Rabbit's head, Pigeon's head, Elephant's head, etc. Every character on this wall has some kind of posture which is different from each other which is showing us life with each and every kind of story that we are forming. In this painting, warm colours play a major role because if the colour is darker than the impact of this art won't be able to come with this intensity. As I have seen this painting physically so I can also say that she worked very patiently. 

Picture 2

So moving to the next painting, in this, there is something called positive and negative space. The positive space, so the combination of positive and negative makes the art one of a kind. And there are a lot of events are going on. Also, background places an important role too as in picture 1. Here two kinds are made one is the filled which is in the right which is considered as the Positive space and in the left of the painting there is a fish only with the empty background which forms Negative space. So if we merge both of the spaces, it'll form a kind of image that we won't be able to see in our day to day life. Balanced Art.

Picture 3

In this painting, we can see the use of cool colour (that is Sky blue) in the background. There are some kind of architecture is made in the middle of the wall and at the top of all, some kind of complex illustration is made.

Some other works of her

She also told us about how to handle clients and how to make them happy with the works and form loyalty with them. Also sometimes we have to work on a client-based project in which we should work according to the Client's guidance.

While doing projects we should first study it then a bit of research to make things better.

Also at the end of the lecture, she talked about cheating in art in which some cheating is also done in the formation of art, like copying the posture of yoga.

At the end of writing, I want to say Priyanka Thaker's personality is one of the unique personality I ever met in my life like her creative thinking is easily visible in her arts and how hard-working she is.

At the end of this feed, I am putting my own pic with her artwork.