Handmade Multicolor Warli Cloth Painting

The Warli paintings of Maharashtra are always done freehand. Putting brush straight to canvas or paper, they seldom need an outline or rough sketch. These paintings are characterized by their dots and lines on the flat colored backgrounds which collectively make up a total graphic. The bodies are seldom in a single color, but are laid out in beautifully demarcated shades and clean geometrical lines. Every Warli  painter has developed his own mannerism for painting this subject. Visual ingenuity is not uncommon for the Warli tribe of Maharashtra who make the Warli paintings. They smear mud paste on the floors, doors and walls of their homes and then paint motifs on them with a brush fashioned out of bamboo, using colors made from natural materials. In early 80s some of the Warli painters started painting on paper and developed a more unique style of painting using bright colors and simple forms. Subsequently, this style was popularly known as Warli painting. The Warli painters love nothing better than to narrate stories behind their paintings. These two-dimensional paintings reflect the artist’s perception of life.

• Brand: Tribes India
• State: Maharastra
• Tribe: Warli
• Color: Multicolor 
• Framed: No
• Type: Cotton Cloth
• Size: Rectangle
• Width:  16 Inches
• Length: 22 Inches
• Depth: 1 cm
• Weight: 100 grams
• Package Content: 1 Painting
• Care Instruction: Avoid contact with water or extreme heat.

Note: Although, an artisan takes care to maintain patterns and color scheme, however, to create identical products a little variation could be seen against the image shown here, being hand-made products.

Disclaimer: There might be little shade variation between the actual product and the image shown on the screen due to the photography effect.