Patua Art
- Location: Bengal Region
- Theme: Portrayal of Mangal Kavyas or auspicious tales about Gods and Goddesses.
- Characteristics: These paintings are done on patas or scrolls.
- Present Theme: Nowadays political and social statements are made by using patua art on sewed-together pieces of paper.
Kalamkari Paintings
- Location: Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh
- Translation: Kalamkari translates as “painting produced with the help of a pen.”
- Theme: Hindu mythology
- Characteristics
- The cloth is painted using a pointed bamboo called a Kalam, which is employed in this technique to control the flow of the colours.
- The pen is soaked in a mixture of water and fermented jaggery before the vegetable colours are added one at a time.
- Hand painting or block printing is used.