Today is the first class of Pastel Nagomi Art, Aunty Jasmine also attending the class. The class started a little bit late due to the bad weather and every way was jammed.
Teacher Mici gave a brief introduction of the Japanese Pastel Nagomi, in which one uses pastel powder and fingers to create gentle, transparent, warm and heart-touching art through simple yet unique ways of painting techniques. The kanji character of “Nagomi” is “和”, which means Harmony.
The therapeutic nature of this pastel art is able to create peace, harmony, and hope from the heart of the painter and also to the people who admire the pastel art.
The results are magical, where it is able to sooth emotions, calm down and relax the mind, reduce stress and depression, increase self-awareness and self-discovery through colours and symbols, enhance self-esteem and confidence, bring joy and harmony to the heart, at the same time stimulate aestheticism and inner sense of beauty.
To start the lesson, Teacher Mici taught us how to use pastel and draw or paint, by using knife and scrap out the pastel powder, and how using fingers to apply onto the paper. We have various kind of painting tools, such as a small cutting board, circle template, paper to cut for the shapes that we desire, rubber eraser, wet wipes tissues, cotton buds, facial cottons, etc..
Everything would have to place it in a proper and neat manner, so that the whole table would not be messy. It is quite common to me as the founder himself is a Japanese. Japanese are famous for their cleanliness and neatness of doing things.
We first paint the ground, then follow the sky, and the little heart in the sky, and finally the small tree which represented ourselves in the painting. It was considered fast in completing the drawing not less than 20 minutes, and it turns out pretty well and indeed I gained satisfaction in it!
Initially Pastel Nagomi Art was not my favourite but I guess after this class, I kind of like it. It indeed reminds me from my school days when I was in my art classes. I can feel that all of my artistic senses are starting to come back and flow into my blood.
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