Tanjore painting

An imperative form of classical South Indian painting which is subject to the town of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India is Tanjore painting. The Nayakas of Thanjavur encouraged art, classical dance and music as well as literature both in Telugu and Tamil before the period of 1600 AD. Tanjore paintings are well known for its surface wealth, bright colors and dense composition. The major subject of Tanjore paintings is their Hindu gods and goddesses, and saints as well.

Tanjore painting process consists of many stages. The initial stage is to make the preliminary drawing of the image on the base. The base can be a cloth pasted over a wooden base.  After that the chalk powder or zinc oxide is mixed with water-soluble adhesive and applied on the bottom and in order to make the bottom smoother, a gentle coarse is applied a little bit. 

After the completion of the drawing, the image is decorated with the jewellery and the apparels. The stones which are used to decorate the image are called as semi-precious stones or Jaipur stones. The jewellery has also been decorated with threads or laces. Then the gold foils are placed on top of it. And at last pigments are used to add colors to the figures in the paintings.

Tanjore figures paintings are fixed. The figures are addressed in the center of the board in which the inside portion is beautifully decorated with arches or curtains.

Glass Painting

Usually, glass painting refers to painting on the exterior of a sheet of glass to be included in a stained glass work.

The major types of paints and processes used for glass painting are:

Traditional stained glass painting

This kind of paints includes the following such as,

• vinegar trace paint,
• matt paint,
• silver stain,
• Oil based paints.

Paints made for surfaces other than glass

It is also possible to paint on glass with paints that are specially made for painting on other surfaces. Oil paints and acrylic paints can work, as will extensively accessible alternatives such as model paint or automobile paint.

Air-dried and oven cured glass paints

These paints have the advantage of being specially invented for painting on glass. They come in two ways:

• air-dried
• Oven cured.

The most excellent known producer of air-dried and oven cured paints are Delta and Pebeo.

Glass enamels

Painting with glass enamels has developed appreciably in popularity the last few years because the range of colors is widespread, and the ability to mix colors means that a practically unlimited palette is available.Glass enamels are prepared of minute glass units, care must be taken to make sure that they are well-matched with the base glass being painted on. 

Screen printing

Screen-printing is sometimes known as silk-screening process, in which ink is enforced through holes in a mesh screen and onto paper or cloth. Wax or other materials are used to fill a number of the holes and make models by scheming where the ink goes. 

Other photographic and printing techniques

It is also likely to produce paintings on glass using other photographic, printing, or xerographic techniques.The simplest of all these method is probably the use of the screen-printing procedure to achieve photographic detail.The use of print-making techniques to print on glass was found by Harvey Littleton, the father of the studio glass movement.       

Painting

Painting which serves as a mode of expression is acquired by applying paint, tint, color or other standard to a surface. The painting in art depicts both the act and the performance. It can be naturalistic as well as representational. The elements play a vital role in every beautiful and attractive painting.

Elements of paintings

 

1.     Intensity

The sensitivity and symbol of intensity enables every painting. In space each point has its personal strength that can be symbolized in painting by black and white and all the gray shades between. 

2.     Color and tone

The essence of music is pitch and rhythm. Similarly color and tone stands as an essence for the paintings. Colors are extremely biased, and also have observable psychological effects.

The colors simply not speaking the psychological and symbolical meanings, yet they are added only add to the potential, derived context of meanings. Because of this the acuity of a painting is vastly subjective. 

3.     Rhythm

Rhythm plays a very important role in both the music as well as paintings. Rhythm can be defined as "a silence included into a series". In art the free flow of power donates to the esthetical value.

4.     Non-traditional elements

The non – traditional elements are mainly used in Modern paintings by Modern artists. Those modern painters include dissimilar resources such as sand, buttress, straw or wood for their texture.