Human beings have unlimited interests and desires, so I think I am no exception.

I have a keen interest to know about painting. And this this winter vacation, I got an opportunity to join a painting class at the Russian Culture Centre.

The class was totally related to environment, and the aim was to create awareness about

the man’s relationship with his environment. Though, art is a vast subject, it helped promote or generate curiosity about the environment.

We had a 15-day class where I experienced something that I had never experienced in my life. Before drawing any object, we were first needed to study the symbolic aspects of its environmental representation. To draw any object, we must have the knowledge about shape, size, colour, location and its relation with the present environment.

We began our course by drawing a flower. When I listened, I thought it would be easy to draw a flower, but it was not as easy as I thought it would be. I did not have any idea about light and shadow. But attending the classes, I learnt the importance of light and shadow in paintings. They give life to the painting.

I did not only learn about panting but also about nature and environment and people can get knowledge from paintings.

— Anita Neupane, Class IX, Ekata Sadan School, Kathmandu