Kartik Gaggar, CEO, The Circle Community, organisers of the workshop, says, “The paintings use strong, specific colours. We want to draw people away from more mainstream forms of entertainment, and introduce them to such art forms. Nakashi art is rich and detailed, and making such art is time-consuming.”

Participants can carry handmade or other paper sheets or canvas cloth to paint. The nakashi themes are traditionally created on scrolls, which accompanied a village’s community of balladeers, who rolled out the scrolls as they performed.

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The art form, known to depict common rural and religious scenes such as farming, cow-milking, local women carrying fish and mythological Gods such as Krishna and Ganesh, and Krishna and female accomplices, is often the work of local artists. Cheriyal is one of the last places where the artworks can be found and even personal objects such as key chains and pencil holders showcase these Cheriyal motifs in a bid to keep the art form alive. 

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