I had come
across an event on Ganesha Idol making for kids organized by Clay station and
was desperately interested to attend it. But sadly due to my vacation, I could
not attend it in Bangalore and had thought of trying it myself at home.
I enquired
about the clay/matti to be used for making idols and got to know of Shadu clay
available at Kumbhar wada in Pune. Did my shopping and finally got the clay.
Shadu clay
is used for making eco-friendly idols and is being encouraged everywhere. Good to see that people are getting aware about environment and preferring these eco-friendly
Idols.
Let me share
my experience on how I tried making the Ganesha Idol
Mixed water
with the clay and prepared my dough (It’s similar to making the chapatti dough
at home). I used a metal Ganesha Idol at home for my reference to make my idol :) and started off. Simplest way to
prepare an idol is make balls of various sizes for body, legs, hands, head, etc and use your skills and logic to join them and give them shape.
My first
Idol was this one…… Prepared it in 30 mins ;) It takes a day or 2 to get dried under the sun and then used poster colors to color them.
I wanted to
make some more Idols of different types and so continued on it. Once am on
something like such creative stuffs, I forget food, my routine chores…in short
forget the world around me (My family knows it very well).
These are
the next 2 Idols I made…
My resting Ganesha
My third ganesha
All 3 Ganesha idols together;
Though none
of the idols are that perfect and there is a lot of improvement needed in all, but
you cannot get it right on one try. Practice and experience will make it
possible.
Also the
feeling with which I made them is what matters more to me. I was totally
involved and it was a nice learning experience. I got to learn a lot from this and also
made me believe that if you wish to do something, you can make that happen,
nothing can stop you :D
Ganapati Bappa Morya!!
Click on the pics to view them in full screen.
Let me know which idol you liked the most :-)
