Been in awe of those DIY paint reels where a blank canvas somehow turns into art in sixty satisfying seconds? Here’s your chance to actually be part of one, no time-lapse required. Dreamstrings is running two workshops this September, and they’ve picked the hardest possible pair to pull off. Zesty Lemon Workshop goes first (September 3), taking something everyone already loved and rebuilding it until it’s barely recognisable. A Whimsical Garden goes second (September 11), doing the reverse, starting from a canvas with absolutely nothing on it and ending with a garden in full bloom. Both land in Hazratganj, eight days apart, and both exist to prove the same point: a blank canvas doesn’t stay blank for long around here.
Keep reading, the paint-splattered details are all yours!
About ‘Zesty Lemon Workshop’
The familiar one comes first. Zesty Lemon Workshop is back on September 3 at F Diner by FTV, Hazratganj, back after a massive response last time, and not because Dreamstrings ran out of ideas for something new. People asked, loudly and repeatedly, so here it is. Except “back” is doing a lot of misleading work, because this round barely behaves like the original. Strip painting, layered textures, actual foliage pressed into the canvas, the lemon theme is still there, but the polite, tidy painting session isn’t. Expect messier hands, more experimentation, and a lot less “stay inside the lines.” What comes out the other end looks less like a fruit study and more like something that wandered in from a textile exhibit, all texture and instinct instead of neat brushwork.
Grab your spot before the colours run out — Register here.
About ‘Whimsical Floral Garden Canvas’
Eight days later, the mood flips entirely, Whimsical Floral Garden Canvas, September 11 at Thennai, Hazratganj, 3 PM onwards. No reference photo, no theme to copy off, not even a rough sketch to lean on, just a blank canvas, a table full of girls, and a plan to build a background, rough it up with texture, and then coax handcrafted florals and leaves out of it until, somehow, a garden’s standing there. It’s less a workshop, more a slow bloom, part paint session, part group therapy, part “wait, how did that turn into a flower.” Nobody’s canvas will look like anybody else’s, mostly because nobody could copy it even if they tried, every garden grows exactly as wild as the imagination behind it.
Join the canvas, colours and conversations — Register now.
Come with an empty canvas, leave with a story to tell
Neither session is really about the final piece, if we’re honest. It’s the paint under the nails, the table full of half-finished ideas, the playlist nobody agreed on, the two hours where the group chat gets ignored for actual conversation happening three feet away. Somewhere between the first stroke and the last leaf, the canvas becomes secondary, a nice byproduct of everyone just being in the room together, hands busy, brains finally quiet. It’s the kind of afternoon that’s hard to plan for and impossible to recreate later, which is probably the whole point. The canvas is just what’s left behind to prove it happened.
So pick your September. Lemons and layered chaos on the 3rd, or a garden grown from scratch on the 11th, either way, seats at Dreamstrings‘ workshops don’t tend to stay empty for long, and neither does the canvas.
Zesty Lemon Workshop — September 3, 2026 | F Diner by FTV, Hazratganj
A Whimsical Garden — September 11, 2026 | 3 PM onwards | Thennai, Hazratganj
