Bhopal, Mar 14: A seven-day long special workshop for renowned senior painters of the state inaugurated here on Friday.

In the outset of the programme Cultural and Mineral Resource Minister, Laxmikant Sharma lighten the traditional lamp followed by he sketched Vande Mataram on the white canvas with blue colour paint as a symbolic inauguration of this special workshop.

Organiser and coordinator Dr Laxminarayan Bhavsar said that this is special seven-day-long workshop is organised to give free scope to senior painters for the creation. During the period of camp whatever, however and whenever painters wish to sketch they can. The new created painting will be handed over to the Cultural Department of Madhya Pradesh Government for the preservation.

Cultural and Mineral Minster Laxmikant Sharma focused on the significance of this camp. He said that this workshop will help to the junior painters. During this camp senior painters will guide junior. He promised that money would not be constraint during any point of time in the process of talent search and development in the state.

Laxman Bhand, senior painter, who is inclined towards abstract painting, said that he decided to paint a sketch of man trying to mount on the running bull, which is symbol of man is over coming on the problems. He added that during this period he will he will teach whatever he know about painting to the student-painters.

In this workshop Basant Agashe, Hari Bhatnagar, Laxman Bhand, RC Bhavasar, Suresh Chaudhary and Shrenik Jain are participating.