Mysore painting

Girija M is a well known l Mysore style painter , a style which encompasses Hindu Deities in an ornate gold leaf pattern .I am in a process presently where I have used the modernist canvases by Benthin as an abstraction of a background with these traditional deities on the foreground. These ideas of art works developed over long conversations with Girijaji and Kumarji her husband, who is a known appreciator of the arts . It occured to me during our conversations that what art meant to people…

Earlier to make a base for painting, artists used to paste 10-20 layers of newspaper, on that they paste the drawing sheet over which they apply the paste of refined flour (Maida). Now days, artists have changed the technique of using the base. They use mount board, over which they paste ivory sheet or cartridge sheet and start the painting. The first step requires the artist to make a preliminary sketch of the image on the base. Thereafter, he makes a paste of zinc oxide and Arabic gum…

Mysore painting of Goddess Saraswathi. One of my very old paintings and probably the one that took the most amount of time. Traditionally Mysore paintings are very detailed and intricate, and the mediums used are water colors, gesso for the embossed effect and gold foil. #mysorepainting #traditionalpainting #rupascolorbook

Lord Vishnu is also known as Srinivasa, a Sanskrit name that translates to ‘the abode of goddess Lakshmi’. Srinivasa is worshipped as Lord Vishnu’s incarnate who resides in the hills of Tirumala to emancipate mankind from the perpetual hardships of Kali Yuga (Kalyug). Srinivasa Perumal is seen standing, with a pair of

Earlier to make a base for painting, artists used to paste 10-20 layers of newspaper, on that they paste the drawing sheet over which they apply the paste of refined flour (Maida). Now days, artists have changed the technique of using the base. They use mount board, over which they paste ivory sheet or cartridge sheet and start the painting. The first step requires the artist to make a preliminary sketch of the image on the base. Thereafter, he makes a paste of zinc oxide and Arabic gum…

Shop Original Handmade painting- You dream it, we can do it. by SWARAJARTSTUDIO located in Solapur, India.

Tanjore painting involves numerous stages, such as meticulous layingout, prefect sketching, elegant ornamenting with stones, intricate embossing work and gold foiling the deities and finally the finishing enrichment. Embossing is done with a mixture of raw lime stone powder sieved through the muslin cloth and mixed with chalk powder, glue and copper sulphate in certain proportion. Gold leaves, semi precious stones and mirrors are used to give it the grand look. In the olden days gold dust or…

Saraswathi Tanjore Painting, A contemporary rendition (via StudioGanjan)

Shreya Prakash on Instagram: "Paint with me : Flower series - 1 . . [exploring and practicing poster colors to improve my skills to use it in tanjore painting]"

In Mysore style of paintings the most popular themes are Goddess Rajarajeshwari and Sri Rama Pattabhishekam, Kodandarama, Dashavathara, Chamundeshwari apart from Lakshmi and Saraswathi, the coronation of Sri Rama (Rama pattabhisheka), wedding of Shiva and Parvati (Girijakalyana), Sri Rama with bow and arrows (Kodanda-Rama), Sri Krishna with his foster mother (Yashoda-Krishna) and the goddess Chamundeshwari, the family deity of the Mysore royal house. Occasionally portraits of the king and…