DESCRIPTION
Medium - Art On Saree(Indian women costume)
Batik is an art, which is more famous in west India. This art is mostly utilized for decorating clothes by utilizing wax, dye and natural color utilization. Batik art and craft has been practiced from centuries and still it is earning great popularity all around the world due to its innovative designing aspects with the traditional methodologies.
Supplier: Art originals, and limited and open edition art prints, subject matter includes canadian west coast 20th and 21st century industrial themes and otherwise, specializing in forest industry such as logging
Indian Folk paintings are pictorial expressions of village painters which are marked by the subjects chosen from epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata, Indian Puranas as well as daily events. There are several vibrant folk painting types in India in different stages. They are distinctively different. The styles are related to their folk mythology.
Main clusters: The Gond tribe of Madhya Pradesh is engaged in floor and wall painting.
Warli is vivid expression of daily and social events of Warli tribe in Maharashtra. Rajasthan is famous for Phad painting done on cloth. Other types of paintings are Pithora painting in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, Madhubani painting of Bihar, Chitrakar painting of West Bengal, Patachitras in Orissa, and Kalamkari in Srikalahasti (Andhra Pradesh).
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Raw material used: All the different types of folk painting mainly use mineral colours and
Homemade canvases, if not drawn on walls and floors. Painting on walls and floors is done with help of white rice paste, ochre or yellow earth colours.
Different sands are used to prepare the base for the paintings, geru, kali mitti, etc.
Pithora art requires clay, and designs made from grains, herbs, spices, etc. The paintings may be made on canvas, paper and cloth surfaces.
