Day 1 of the workshop

The Day 1 of the workshop was held at Ingiriya, Vindya Kanchana Karunarathna's house now converted to a meeting and activity space.

Prof. Jagath Weerasinghe
Sarath Kumarasiri
K.G. Pushpakumara
Bandu Manamperi
Pala Pothupitiye
Thisath Thoradeniya
Lalith Manage
Prasanna Nankadura
Nishantha Rukmal
from Theertha International Artists' Collective visited Megha on this day.

Jagath Weerasinghe gave a lecture on drawing. At the end of it after the tea break every body sat down to do blind contour drawings getting personal instruction and advise from Jagath.

At noon every body vent to the Madakada Aranya Senasanaya, (Madakada Monastry). They were expected to study the surface textures in nature. After lunch near the Madakada Oya, the work continued untill evening. The next five workshop days the 22 participating artists worked outdoors and indoors like this.