Mysore painting

INDIA, MYSORE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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

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…

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Abhinaya Saraswathi 🙏🏻 Happy to share this special painting on this auspicious day of Vasant Panchami! It was a mesmerizing working process for me .....

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…

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…

Saraswati is an ancient Hindu Goddess and the celestial consort of Brahma. She represents knowledge, wisdom, music, and the arts.

From Ganesha collection, Dancing Ganesha (Tanjore Painting on BoardTraditional Colors with 24 Karat GoldArtist:Hemlata Kumawat)