UNS — Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta Student Community Service Program (KKN) team held training for caping (traditional Javanese cap) painting for elementary school students. This training was held in the Public Elementary School (SDN) 1 Tanjungsari, Petanahan, Kebumen, on Sunday (29/8/2021). This training aims to provide a means to create for Tanjungsari Village children in improving their creativity amid the pandemic.
Tanjungsari Village is famous for its villager’s livelihood as kopyah and lambar entrepreneurs. Both are the components of caping or tudung. The training consists of materials on fine arts components, explanations on the technical aspects, and direct practice on painting.
“The technique used is water printing technique. This technique is a means to color or decorate objects even in 3D shape. This technique uses water as printing media and oil paints as coloring agents. Because water and oil have different characteristics, with water has heavier mass than oil, the oil will always float and water always below it,” Tegar Bima Prayoga, KKN Group 40 member, explained.
Tegar stated that this program is implemented with the hope of improving children’s creativity in Tanjungsari village. In this painting training, children could create and explores colors using the water printing method. Each motif and shape resulted from water printing will always differ. Especially, the shapes are unpredictable and unique.
“We hope that after this training, students will understand painting methods that can be developed to be applied on other media. We also expect students to be aware of the economic potential of tudung for its prospect that can be improved by adding art into it. This event is expected to equip students with a new skill that can be used in the future,” he concluded. Humas UNS
Reporter: Bayu Aji Prasetya
Editor: Dwi Hastuti
