Warli Love

Dear friends...hope you all are doing well. I have become a very lazy blogger from last two months. I finally find a inspiration to paint a new tote bag. I got this canvas bag couple of weeks ago. I first thought, I will crochet some flowers and sew them on this bag for more spring looking tote. But after making few flowers that idea vanished from my mind. I decided to create an ethnic looking tote so I opened my color box and painted a very simple design with little bit of warli , some straight and slanted lines. Colorful beads were added in the end to give it a complete look.

 To know more about Warli Art go to this link here.....you will see some wonderful ideas to use beautiful folk art in various form.

I used acrylic colors for the project.

See you later..with another crafty idea!

Warli Painting

Folk art has a unique way of depicting life. Its earthiness and simplicity has charm of its own and this is the reason why I admire Warli paintings. So let’s explore the world of Warlis. Warli painting is a folk art made by the Warli tribe based in Thane district of Maharastra ,India. The word "Warli" comes from "Warla " which means a piece of land or a field . Warli tribe have their own belief system, lifestyle and customs which have nothing in common with Hinduism. They speak an unwritten dialect mingling Sanskrit, Marathi and Gujarati words. Warli paintings are very primitive in nature depicting everyday life. These paintings are simply painted on mud, charcoal and cow dung treated surfaces with rice paste for the colour white. Geometrical shapes like circle, triangle and square are used to form human and animal figures. Simple in nature warli paintings unfolds the scenes of the tribal life along with trees, animals and birds in a very cohesive way. Now a days,Warli paintings can be seen on paper, vases, mugs, bedsheets, apparel too. No doubt, Warli painting has long way to go. I got so much inspired by the warli paintings that I painted a canvas bag with warli motives. Well I am pretty happy with the result.... not bad for the first timer ....what do
you think?



                       





sketch on paper

Gond Painting

Bright colours and amazing patterns of dots and lines of Gond has tremendous appeal. Their bright array of colors and unique sense of depicting natural world influence me the most. Gond Painting of Madhya Pradesh is a folk art and like all other folk art forms, subject matter of these paintings are nature and life around.You can learn more about it here and here 

Couple of days back I made my first gond inspired work. I need little more research and practice on their design and pattern works, so I can try it on a canvas. For now, I am happy with these little pieces that I made.

I painted on these cardboard boxes ...

Patachitra

There is a unique sense of beauty in folk arts. Their earthiness and charm captivates the attention of generation after generation. What has moved me this time is…Patachitra- a folk art of Orissa, India. The Patachitra painting dates back to the 8th century AD and it is considered as one of the earliest forms of indigenous paintings. Flourished under the patronage of the royals and temples, the Patachitra paintings usually depict the stories of Hindu gods and goddesses.

Religious in nature these paintings display the vibrant colors, fine lines, well adorned borders and fine detail work. The canvas for Patachitra made with the double coarse white cloth pasted with an adhesive extracted from the tamarind seed. The main colors used in Patachitra are red, brick red, yellow, white and black.

The beauty of Patachitra compelled me so much that this time I decided to give it a try. Well after few attempts of sketching, I was good to go …why don’t you scroll down and view my work!

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