The Technique of Madhubani Painting

Folk art displays a vast diversity of forms and subjects, a living heritage deeply ingrained in people's blood. India has hundreds of ethnic groups distributed throughout the north and south, and each one has its own kind of art expressing taste, wants goals, objectives, pleasures, sufferings and struggles. The Indians have their ten thousand years of creative culture and broad-based geography of art. Regional features, environment and a distinctive everyday routine reflect the ethnic uniqueness and creativity of each group. These ancient people did not discover their dictionary in the 'shape' in 'the Word,' that expressed their delight.

The ultimate methods of talking to one another and the 'divine' were discovered in their form. Their tool was not skilled, education or training. Their tales, myths, or beliefs were not texts or authoritative mandates. They found all their art, in the blood that kept them for years, almost as they were being transferred to them, with their vigour and freshness frequently soiled or sought for by the dark, constricted cells of power.

What distinctively differentiates their art is their huge imagination, the desire to enrich, and the innate capacity to add symbolic depths to a regular form of art and the objects dispersed all over it, the status of art images. Every minute, in a world, they searched for means to distort and destroy, sang their own tunes, danced their inner rhythm and their heart's notes, and discovered a world which was pure, harmonious and respectful and concerned for life in its own jumble of things, crude lines, raw colours and incoherent motifs.

Technique of Madhubani painting

Madhubani is a highly skilled craft that closely follows to old procedures that have been tested. The utilisation of basic raw materials, such bamboo sticks and cotton, may readily be used in rural regions.

The initial wrapping of the cotton is a bamboo clamp. It's like a brush. The brush is submerged and applied to the cloth in various colours. There's no work here for shading. The outline is double lineed and there are cross or straight lines between these two lines. For these lines, colours are not utilised.

Paintings made in Madhubani employ natural colours. Blending soot and cow manure is made black. The hue yellow is a blend of lime, banana leaves' milk, turmeric and pollen. The red is derived from Kusam juice and red sandalwood, while the white is derived from rice powder, etc.