Making of the mund

What is 'creativity'?

What is creativity?

Earlier whenever i heard the word “creativity” I always associated it with "Out of the Box Thinking". The first thing that strikes our left brain is that creativity always relates to creating what has never been thought of. But have you ever imagined that the right brain is never active when your left brain takes charge of your thinking process. But then after the visual art class I realized the being creative not only means thinking with the help of right brain but also thinking simple ideas. We are so much tied up with our linear world (controlled by the left brain) that thinking laterally (by the right brain) is a seldom thought. Thus to be creative, I would say “How can I depict this same beauty in more simpler but different way than it is now as shown complex by Mother Nature?” Answer this simple question and you will find yourself being creative. Being creative essentially means you adore the beauty around you and reciprocate it in some manner back to the surrounding or the society. Perhaps the greatest single barrier to becoming more creative is the fear of risk. Creativity demands that we step into the unknown.
Here I would like to mention the 3 pillars of creativity:

1. Do it yourself:
The moment you get a new idea, start making a list. Don’t worry about order. Order comes later. Just puke everything out in movable bits of content so that way when it self-organizes, you can easily categorize it.

2. Do it with available resources:
When you are constrained by the resources available to you, you are bound to think “Out of the Box”. No theorems of operations management or rather any other management is going to help you in calculating the “Optimum” use of resources. Rather do not even let this happen. Use everything that is available to you. One way to be creative is to use and fit a resource purposefully into something. For example, if I am making a pen-stand out of matchsticks then probably a soft toy is not useful. But what if I make a base plate and put the soft toy near to the pen-stand so created as if it seems that the cute little creature is holding the stand for you!

3. Do it anytime, anywhere:

This is the most important pillar as this is the pillar that according to me symbolizes the real creativity and also bears the fruit of joy. Creative idea is just a random thought that occurs to you that you want to make something like this…or something like that…
This is where your thought process begins. And the fun part is it can begin anywhere. Be it classrooms, be it meeting or board rooms, be it while you take bath, etc. The desire to fulfil the idea just born into the 20gram data centre will lead to infinite tonnes of joy.

Always remember, the moment you have a creative idea, the next instant is of fear. What if I am not able to make this! But learn to trust, recognize, follow, and push your personal instincts and signs. Do not let your self-confidence ever go low. Shall you start losing the self-confidence; recall the 3 pillars of creativity.

Minesh Doshi-FSB 2

My painting during the vacation

I have enclosed my painting which i did during the summer.
Its an inspiration from Jackson Pollock and i have used the mediums you have taught us i.e ; oil paints, acrylics and poster colors.
Thank you,maam, for inspiring me sooo much!
Dhvani Kothari -[Fsle]

Faculty response; Am impressed to see Dhvani painting during the vacation. Wish, more students do so!Keep it up, Dhvani!

Unconventional 20!

"How can we imagine trees that do not exist and that too 20 of them".The first reaction that everyone has to make
20 trees which are not conventional.But finally on the day of submission, the outcome was amazing!!!.
There were trees made out of moths,names,balls,hearts,dots,semicircles,squares,triangles,alphabets and so on.
Suniti mam was overwhelmed with the imagination of the students.23 students had 20 unconventional trees...
~what a sight to watch 460 designs~
Maybe someday we will be able to see some of our own created trees somewhere on this earth or even god is impressed by our
creation to create such trees..!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Here are few of those beautiful and mind-blowing designs

monochromatic paintings by students of 101

monochromatic paintings in poster color by students of 101

work done by students of 101

Students reflections on making a colour wheel

Ankita Poddar -

"I had designed my own color wheel so it felt nice to try something new and make it visually appealing.I had learnt a lot about every color and its outcome when put across with another color....theoritically colors seemed different but when put on paper, the effect that the combination of primary and secondary colors had given was worth the efforts.....I have been more than satisfied with my color wheel outcome....also felt encouraged when appreciated for the efforts I've put in"

Sushmitha Banda -

"Fascinating,gave me a feeling of exploration and basically learnt about each color's behavior...was an amazing observation made as to how each color behaved when interacted with another primary color....it also shows how each color component plays a different role in every color exhibited by it"


Prachithi Bhandari -

"I have spun the wheel of colors...:-) looking forward to more such wheels "


Raman Rathi -

"Blinded by colors....amazing fun to play around with the colors....never paid much attention to how actually the colors when mixed ,and transformed into different colors which look so beautiful"


Falak Trivedi -

"Very good learning experience..."


Vignesh Nathan -

"Awesome is the term used to describe the wonderful fusion of colors....visually stimulating...appealing...soothing...though seemed like a very basic exercise with poster colors ,it reflects a lot about every color's nature.The metamorphisis undergone by every color during the fusion is something that catches every eye"


Tejas Sarda -

"Color wheels win over Hot wheels!!" :-)


Radhika Molala -

"Looking forward to more such wheels....very good experience"

absolutely awesome paintings!

photos or paintings?

Iman Maleiki's awesome paintings

Iman Maleiki was born on 1976 in Tehran. He has been fascinated by the art of Painting since he was a child. At the age of 15, he started to learn painting under the mastery of his first and only teacher - Morteza Katouzian - who is the greatest realist painter of Iran. Meanwhile, he began to paint professionally. In 1999 he graduated in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehran. Since 1998, he has participated in several exhibitions. In the year 2000, he got married and in the following year he established ARA Painting Studio and started to teach painting, considering classical and traditional values.


The most important exhibitions he has participated in, are: The Exhibition of Realist painters of Iran at Tehran Contemporary Museum of Art(1999) and The Group Exhibition of KARA Studio Painters at SABZ Gallery(1998) and at SA'AD ABAD Palace(2003) . In 2005, Iman received the William Bouguereau award and the Chairman's Choice award in the second international ARC salon competition

Thanks,
Radhika Molala
FSB-1

Lost and found

I had lost touch of sketching and drawing after school...I rediscovered it in Flame.The day I sketched, I found myself to be very calm and satisfied and I slept well.It is funny but once again sketching is in my heart and mind. In class or anywhere, whenever I am bored, my hand finds a pencil and automatically starts sketching.

Tejas Vijay Sarda- Fsb 1

My sketching experience

My sketching experience “healed” my eyes, and also saved my memory.
I was “blind” before I started sketching as I always missed the interesting things around me. I saw not only shapes and colors, but also something other people have ignored, such as textures and shadows. Each time I turn over my sketchbooks, the real scenes in every page pop up in front of me; they are the media of my memories and feelings.Thit is the experience that taught me the most about myself.

Raman Rathi [Fsb 1]

calligraphy for me...

Typography and calligraphy is by far the best course i have taken this trimester. Apart from handwriting, it further tests the creative
skills. It forces me to think which is a good thing and also simultaneously learn something new and creative. This is the one course
that helps keep a free, calm and relaxed mind.

Yash Merchant
Fsle 2

The first class of Typography & Calligraphy

Calligraphy means "beautiful writing" but is means "beautiful class" as well.. Our class started with a bang making us all inventors of a new font which we were allowed to create and also name ourselves! Ours was called "missing" and the font can be seen in the visual arts studio, along with many other beautiful creations.

Shruti Bansal
fsle 2

Life without art!

Life without Art is said to be like a song without any music.
During the preparatory program of art and design course, we got to learn a lot about the way our mind is connected to the spiritual as well as the materialistic things in the world : all about the - right part of our brain, that gives us an ability to imagine more creatively and beyond the horizons of our mind ! It was like an exercise that made us think in a new band of life...
This course of art and design has changed my perspective of looking at things around me.
The best part was when I could visualize my imagination and make it more tangible by drawing it on a paper .
And at that time a continuous and uncontrollable phenomena of thoughts completely vanished, and entered the realms of spontaneity, leaving my mind to be free for any and every kind of creative thoughts ....

- Hiren.S.Thakur (61466)

FSB prep. program

"Maam, we dont want to take a break!"...students engrossed!

starry starry night

Shruti Bansal continues to paint during the vacation.

Shreya's paintings

Hi Maam...I am sending a few of my recent paintings...I had told you i will paint in the holidays...

Shreya Lalwani [FSB 2]

Pratiks work during the vacation

Hey i have attached the painting which i just completed last eve and ha plz plz do tell me if any thing needs to be added to make it even more beautiful..
Pratik Bahua [FSB 2]

It was the students who were giving art demonstrations.This was the uniqueness of this art exhibition.

Dean of Flame school of business, Prof. Shingi, engrossed in painting during the art exhibition on Flame campus

Prof. Indira J. Parikh, tries her hand at acryllic painting. Also seen in the foto is Pooja Shah, Head, Student Activities

Chairman of Flame, Shri Parag Shah, lights the lamp and inaugurates Canvas'10

Invitation for our exhibition

from hate to love!

I hated my own handwriting, until I took up this course of calligraphy. Today, I love to see my handwriting. It is an amazing transformation.Cro-quil is my favourite tool.

Bhavika Doshi
Fsle 2

Our calligraphy class.

From this course I have realized how creative I am and compared to maam's and others ideas how much should I learn and broaden my horizons in this field of creativity. Here we don't have to mug up things or copy some works, we need to think and do our work and show our creativity. These two hours of morning pass so fast that I don't even realize it.

Riddhi
FSB-1

A different session of spontaineity - calligraphy!

engrossed in calligraphy

What is abstract? Can it be beautiful?

Then and now of art!

"I always wondered why I couldn't paint just like the way my sister or my father did. They always kept telling me that I never picked up the 'art'. But today, when I made the sketches on perceptive thoughts, I feel different - A happy moment for me! Looking forward to many many more such happy sunny days of sketching"

Varun Prasad
FSB 1

pen Vs cro-quil

After experiencing the fun of writing with a cro-quil, I dont feel like holding the pen in my hand!

Harsh Sanghavi
FSB 1

To be managers learn to write ABC

Writing WAC, operations 5000 words assignment, and written exam for managerial oral communication course [MOC] is easier than writing ABC with the cro-quil. And still very ineresting!

Pratik Bahua
FSB 1

..until I used the cro-quil...

You know, I hated my own hand-writing...unitl today. When I used the cro-quil.

Bhavika Doshi
Fsle -2

President of FLAME, Prof. Indira J. Parikh, in awe of the paintings!

A dream come true! The first 'students art exhibition' at FLAME!

Prof. Prasad Vanarase, Dean - FSPA, lighting the lamp for the art exhibition

Disha Chaudhury's 'Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?' the most talked about painting in the studio

Prof. Indira J. Parikh admiring Purushottam's 'Shivaji'

alphabets all-over!

magic of the sponge tool!

students exploring the sponge tool to write!

Understanding the script Uncial

the new type face designers... admiring their work

kanduxtego

12 new typefaces in the FIRST typography-calligraphy session itself! Creativity at its peak!

Sketching by the lake- an experience!

It was indeed a beautiful and a fabulous experience on the very first day itself.
Though i am extremely poor at drawing, i really enjoyed sketching may be for the first time..
Because this was the first time there was no restriction as to what to draw and what not..

Aditya Sheth
FSB-1

Closer to nature let me be...can I sketch, lets try and see!

The first session of sketching by the lake on campus

Colors,music and fun!

The First Exhibition

"The students have expresses their inner reality, given expression and created beauty with colour. A lot of effort has gone into this. Congratulations."

Prof.Indira Parikh,
President, FLAME




"Great, I liked their creativity."

Prof. P.M Shingi,
Dean, FSB




" !!! " (speechless)

Prof. V.Vanarase
Dean, FSPA




"Art is no longer for artists."

Prof. Christina Furtado
Associate Dean, FSLE





"It is exciting and interesting to see what a bunch of students and colours can produce."

Uttkarsh
FSLE 1

Shri.Ravi Paranjape's exhibition

Below is my experience of the visit to Shri. Paranjape's home:-

A wide array of thumbnail paintings put up in the most beautiful manner I have ever seen was my first view of this exhibition. At no exhibition would an artist put up thumbnails of thirty years of experiences.
I was impressed by the wide use of mediums such as colour pencils, acrylic colours etc. It inspired me greatly to work with new mediums and try new things. This philosophy of being an explorer is what I gained that day and I will always cherish it.

Regards,
Yash Merchant
FSLE 1

Quotes of painters

"Art is the ability to transport oneself from the midst of a cold winter to a lovely summer's morning and sense it all, feel how nature awakens and your own harmony in tune with it. That is what I require from a work of art. It must say something and say it so loud that it carries us away." - Hugo Simberg, Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist

An'effortless' course

What i like about the 201 visual art course, it that unlike other subjects , it doesn't add to our stress. Even the theory part of it...when everyone presents the art periods, we learn in the process. It is fun.

Divya Singhvi
fsle 1

Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?

An attempt at Jamini Roy's Mother and Child