How much can you do with a line? I have been playing around with Madhubani-inspired borders lately, and this started as a very simple experiment. [Jump to the Free Printable Sheet, if in a hurry :)] I wondered: how much beauty can a few lines add to a basic shape? So I took some familiar…
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,…