how to make Warli paintings:

In  maharashtra ,there  is a  tribe called 'warlis'. Warli  painting  is the folkart  of  warli  tribe. It  is the integral  part of tribal life.Their  cultural life  has  been  depicted  in the paintings. Daily life  events  , tribal festivals & rituals , dances, wedding ceremony, tribal god-godess can be seen in the paintings. Human and animal figures are represented by 2 triangles joined at the tip. The ritual painting  are done on walls of huts.








​The walls are made of mixture of branches, soil, cow dung making red background for wall paintings. White colour is used which is mixture of ricepaste& water with gum as a binding and bamboo stick as a paint brush. The paintings can be drawn  vertically or horizontally.we can see meaningful use geometrical  figures like lines dots,triangles,square,semicircle,circle,angles while drawing animal, human figures, houses,trees,and other things in the paintings. These paintings are two dimentional.



















While painting on a brown or red  paper, we can use white acrylic colourand on white background we can use black acrylic colour and paint brush .





























We can do warli painting  on paper, fabric, pots,and on wooden piece.oil  paints need to be used on wooden piece. Here are some paintings made my Mrs Pratiksha Ratnaparkhi

Sent by Mrs Pratiksha Ratnaparkhi
Dombivli (Mumbai)



edited by Mrs Uma ramana

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