Kalamkari temple paintings from Andhra Pradesh are used as backdrops by the travelling theatre groups that would recite tales from the Ramayana and other Hindu epics.
Photos and Diary from a visit to the newly refurbished Bani das ki Bawari stepwell at Dausa, Rajasthan. All the walls are painted with folk art images.
Indian Miniature paintings are often commissioned for books and are usually executed on paper. You will also see similar styles of painting on a larger scale in palaces such as these at Bundi, a small town in Rajasthan.