PAINTING TECHNIQUES
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These
artists used locally available material like earth, vegetable colours
and flowers of selected plants for their paintings. They made additional
colours by mixing two or more primary colours in different proportions
as per requirements. The hair of the squirrel were used as brushes by
tying them with a silken thread and inserting them in the narrower end
of a quill. The board for painting were obtained by pasting a cloth
or waste paper to wooden planks. Controlled burnt tamarind sticks were
used as sketching charcoal. The motifs were drawn with a crayon. The
farthest objects like sky, hills and rivers were painted first followed
by animal and human figures. The gold foils are pasted last while the
picture was moist so as to hold the gold foil firmly. The paintings
are polished only when they are perfectly dry.
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