Colouring the imagination

GIVING COLOUR to their imagination, many children tried their hand painting on various topics including pets, animal safari and creatures under the sea.

The occasion was a painting competition organised by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) for school children in the city.

The children were divided into four categories - sub juniors from I standard to III standard, IV to VI standards under juniors, students from VII to IX standards classified under seniors and the X to XII standard have been brought under super senior category.

More than 1500 children including girls from various schools in the city participated in the competition, say the organisers. The majority of the girls preferred to paint a picture for the topic `Creatures under sea'. The impact of various channels such as National Geographic, Discovery and Animal Planet was very visible. This was evident from the drawings of a few girl students, who drew a picture, where woman divers exploring the deep seas to explain the world about the various life forms found deep inside the sea.

For the boy students, their main attraction was forest and wildlife and so they chose the topic `Jungle and Animals'. Giraffe, rhinoceros, elephants, lion and tiger with forest in the background was the pictures painted by the boy students.

More than anything else it was the equipment which the children brought to the venue and the way they used them to add beauty to their work, which was very evident. Instead of just blotting the paper with the colours, one of the girl students from DAV school used a blower to put some blobs of paint on her paper, which spread evenly and the result was more beautiful than she expected.

The objective of the event is broadly to inculcate the habit of compassion in the minds of children, a sense of welfare to the animals and also against cruelty, said Mr. V. Ratnam, president, SPCA, Chennai.

Besides selecting three persons from each category for the prizes, the organisation will also exhibit the best of the pictures selected by a panel of artistes at its office in Vepery at a later date, they added.

By P. Oppili

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