Bengaluru, Feb 15 Bengalureans on Saturday got a lesson in how to turn discarded stuff like CDs, glass, furniture, plastic and paper into art pieces and make the city litter-free.

A group of seven artists led by Sujata Tibrewala, a network engineer-turned-painter, guided scores of people in Defence Colony area in east Bengaluru to make art objects out of the waste they had brought in.

Sujata and her artist friends Rekha Hebbar Rao, Bharati Sagar, Hari K.P., Tejshvi Jain, Tonnie Roche and Sreenivas Rao Sageeche held such an event for the first time.

"We are happy with the response, though we expected a little more," Sujata, who once worked as a network engineer with CISCO but quit to take to painting full time, said.

The artists plan to organise such events periodically. "We will have regular weekly/monthly workshops," she added.

Sujata, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, said the purpose of the initiative was "just to make people think, experience the joy of art-making and become an art practitioner/follower in the long run".