My first large Pattachitra painting for Rath Yatra Every year, the streets of Puri come alive for one of India’s grandest festivals, the Rath Yatra, when Lord Jagannath, along with his siblings Balabhadra and Subhadra, leaves the temple to bless devotees from beautifully decorated wooden chariots. This year, the journey found its way onto my…
A year between two Warli paintings Last Ashada Ekadashi, I drew Lord Vitthala in Warli art almost on an impulse. The artwork was shared on Instagram and automatically found its way to Pinterest. I never imagined that this simple drawing would quietly become one of the most-loved pieces on RevArtTales. Months later, it continues to…
There are some artworks that quietly become part of our lives. Not because they are perfect, or because they were planned to be displayed forever, but because they carry a story that we never want to pack away. My Warli Dashavatar series is one of them. Why Warli? It all began with the very first…
On an April evening, I painted this digital madhubani peacock on my iPad. I was being part of a collaboration on Instagram to post a peacock in Madhubani for the day and I was travelling. No papers, no pens. But I had my work iPad with me. A late-night art fulfullied the day’s commitment. I…
Have you ever started a blank page and frozen when it came to Madhubani borders? I have. And it happens almost every time I make an art. Madhubani or Mithila art is known for bright colours and bold double lines. But when I sit with paper and pen, leave alone paint & brush, the first…
My hand remembered before I sat down to draw these Madhubani borders. A few weeks ago I picked up my favourite black pen. No plan. But triangles came out forst on my mind. Then some some flowers. Then some lines. I started. These were the borders I saw on the walls of Patna in Bihar,…
This is my desk today. For a change, no ‘editing’, no ‘angle’ as in my journalistic writings. Just me, paper, and whatever shows up. Today, it’s two fish. In Mithila painting.I didn’t plan them. I let the two fish swim different directions. The lotus came next. Pink, because my desk cloth that day was this…