Peranakan Art Workshop for kids, adults and corporate events by Rasha Eleyan

1. Peranakan Painting Workshop
(for kids and adults)
rashaeleyan.com.sg - rasha@rashaeleyan.com.sg

2. The Workshop’s inspiration
The unique Peranakan culture in general and the highly ornate
tiles used to decorate their shophouses
The Peranakan culture is a unique hybrid culture that is still part of Singapore’s
living heritage. In this workshop we get our inspiration from the tiles charac-
terised by elaborate design and a brilliant colour palette which were intro-
duced to Peranakan shophouses as the culture reached its richest phase.
Ps. this is not a ceramic tile painting class but Acrylic on canvas, and inspired
by the Peranakan tiles.
joo chiat, katong, east coast, tanjong pagar,Little India, Emerald Hill and
Jalan Besar are some of the locations around Singapore where Peranakan
shophouses decorated with tiles can be seen.

3. Peranakan Inspired Painting (and Collage)
This is a four-week workshop or an ongoing weekly workshop
Workshop are available for kids and adults of all skill levels
Workshop duration: 2.5-3 hrs
Instructor: Rasha Eleyan
Complete an acrylic on canvas painting with a Peranakan design at the end of
each weekly session to be part of your four piece Collage (with the option of
adding more pieces). With the aid of stencils specially made for this workshop
and bearing designs of the most popular Peranakan tiles found at various
locations around Singapore.
The objective of this workshop is to learn a little about the unique Peranakan
culture, motifs, colour pallette to help the student in making confident color
choices, to create four small artworks that can be displayed individually or
together as a collage.
A four piece collage
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 cm each
20 cm
20cm

4. Workshop description:
15 minutes light hearted powerpoint presentation about:
- Who are the Peranakans? The culture and it’s origins
- What are Peranakan tiles (their use and significance in the
culture, Motifs, colour palette)
- Some photos of Peranakan tiles seen around Singapore.
Introduction to the materials and how to use them:
-Acrylic paint and brushes
-1 stretched canvas size 20x20 cm per child per class
-The use of stencils bearing Peranakan designs
After the introduction to the culture and materials students
are guided in painting their tile with their own colors of choice
as some like to be inspired by the Peranakan Palette while
others prefer to create their own.
At the end of each weekly workshop every student would’ve
created one 20x20 cm painting to be part of a collage that can
contain as many standard size“tile paintings”as they wish to
create, making it an interesting 4 week workshop or a continu-
ous weekly workshop.
The Peranakan Color Palette

5. Stencils with popular Peranakan tile designs were created digitally by
Rasha and then 3D printed specially for students to use in this work-
shop, new designs are added regularly to the collection.
Materials:
Acrylic paint and brushes. one (20x20 cm) stretched
canvas per child per class.

6. Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding (kids and/or adults) workshops.
Rasha Eleyan
+65 9630 7720
rasha@rashaeleyan.com.sg
www.rashaeleyan.com.sg
Photos from a recent Kids Workshops

7. Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding (kids and/or adults) workshops.
Rasha Eleyan
+65 9630 7720
rasha@rashaeleyan.com.sg
www.rashaeleyan.com.sg
Photos from a recent Adults Workshops