Ideart
I’ve dabbled in various forms of visual art from pencil-sketches, watercolour, oil paints, soap-etching, chalk-carving, rangolis, poster-making and collages.
My favorite one so far is fabric-painting which uses everyday clothing as its canvas.
I think fabric-painting receives less importance than is due to it. There seems to be a perception that fabric-painting is a ‘lesser art form’. I disagree. Painting on a flat piece of paper or a stretched canvas is very different from painting on a cloth that is going to mold itself around a human body. You have to take the fabric material into consideration for how it absorbs paint, how it holds colour and how it reflects light. It’s critical to understand the geometry of human shape and the physics of bodily movement to be able to bring out a fabric painting in its best light.
Body language is what brings a garment’s painting to life. Fabric-painting honours the fact that each body is unique. All the photographs on this page (and their related posts) are of fabric painting done by me.
The Making Of A Superhero: Nagraj
Mughal Miniature
Ideart: Peacock
What say you?