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The Golden Era

Gold is popularly used in paintings both in North and South India.

Nathdwara paintings have their origins from Nathdwara, a place in the state of Rajasthan.

This art form celebrates the glory of Lord Srinathji and most of their painitings are dedicated to Lord Vishnu and his various avatars.

However, Nathdwara paintings have begun to incorporate various other Indian gods and godesses as well.

A soft wood is cast into the design required.

POP is used for design patterns for the jewellery, crown, mount, etc;

Natural Fluorescent colors are used for a good and healthy balance of colors.

Jewellery stones are used for further decorations.

22K gold foil is used for the gold designs.

Tanjore paintings and Mysore gold paintings are a more popular gold art to the south.

Tanjore paintings are comparitively simpler.

These provide a lot more scope for abstraction and design.

However, a 24K gold foils mounted onto a paper cut are used.

Embossing patterns are similar to that of Nathdwara, but Tanjore paintings use traditionally only red, green and white gem stones.

A Nathdwara  Balaji

A Nathdwara Srinathji

A Nathdwara Srinathji

A Nathdwara Srinathji

A Tanjore Krishna

A Nathdwara Srinathji

A Nathdwara Balaji

A Nathdwara Pune Ganapathi

Vastu Murals

Modern day or not, Vastu has its own importance and impact on an individual's life.

Vastu has gained a lot of importance in modern times and people prefer artifacts of Vastu or Fengshui as their house or work space decors.

Here are a few of the many designs of Vastu murals.

Asht mangal vastu mural 

Ganapathi mural

Traditional vastu mural

Ashta ganapathi mural

Chinese Feng shui mural

16 piece murals for  bringing more prosperity to  homes

Pot murals

Art on walls have been famous for long.

However, muralling is now not limited to walls alone, they have grown in an all new dimension n have been popularly taken up as an embossing art form to create beautiful 3D art pieces.

The thing with murals is that, it can go with any base materials.

Be it plastic sheets, pvc pipes, cardboards, canvas or wood, muralling has always been possible.

A yet another variety in murals would be using earthen pots which is also extendable to ceramic, fiber and plastic vases pots.

Paper Quills and cuts

Paper can not only be for origamy, it can also be used for other variety of crafts.

A classic example being creating quill designs and colored paper cuttings.

A quilling paper of suitable thickness and color can be made into various designs.

All one needs is a good quality slit quilling needle.

Suitable size and shape punches are available in the market, in case one is wanting to make craft out of paper cuttings.

The following blog depicts how paper quills and cuts can be used to make a variety of crafts, right from greeting cards, rakhis, wall mounts, mirrors, earings, envelops, etc;

V- shawl Woollen Crochets

Single crochet hand crafted.

Crafted out of 2 basic stitches, which are the horizontal chains and vertical pillars.

Crocheting up to 25 rounds with an initial start up series of 28 sets of pillars.

Each set is made up of 3 pillars and each set is alternated by 3 chains.

The middle segment is made to incorporate an additional set of pillars.. to bring out the v shape.. on both the sides.

A Twist in the woods

Customization has become a trend.

Conventional designs are boring.. and out.. its an era of the custom made. 

Personalized designs bring with it a sense of it being much more special.

Here are a few custom made name plates and frames, that give wood muralling a whole new dimension ..

Warli is one of the oldest known form of tribal art, originating from tribals of the Indian deccan plateau.

Not only does it speak volumes of the tribal cultures, but also shows their sense of team work and togetherness.

In spite of being one of the most celebrated ancient art.. it is also one of the most rapidly disapearing art form.