The rich, cultural tradition of the Bhils of Madhya Pradesh is manifested in their rituals, their songs and dances, their community deities, tattoos, myths and lore.

Their homes reveal an innate sense of aesthetics. Walls are plastered every year and decorated with clay relief work, mittichitra, and paintings.

This workshop is a beautiful combination of Indian folk art and dot patterns.

Material used for painting are simple and home-made – pigments extracted from the leaves and flowers of various plants, daubed on with brushes made of rag or a cotton swabs fastened to twigs of neem. But today these colours are replaced with acrylic colours.

Everything connected with the Bhil life is painted – the sun, the moon, the animals, trees, insects, rivers, fields, mythological figures, the god, Bhilvat Deo Baramathya, who has twelve heads and Ektangya, who has only one leg.

Its an interesting play of colours, creating dotted illusions, which you can learn and put to good use through this workshop.