Demonstration of Mithila art by Shanti Devi – Mithila Painter from Bihar

Demonstration of Mithila art was conducted on 5th Sept by renowned artist Shanti Devi, originally from Bihar now settled in Delhi. The workshop was open to all. While answering queries on Mithila ( Madhubani ) art form, she also explained how old this art form is and the how they use to make the colours from. Like from Haldi they use to make yellow, from yellow mustard seeds and Sindoor they use to make red, from Parijaat flowers stem they make orange and from green from leaves and black from kajal. She also explained the process how to make the paper by using buffalo dung to make the paper useful for doing this painting. This kind of special paper is only used for this creating these Mithila paintings and how they use nib to draw outline and to add glue and fevicol in a colour which is to be used to make these paintings. She explained that the glue and fevicol binds the colour to this specially made Madhubani paper. There was lot of interest in participants to know about the tradition of this art form and paintings.

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