Seven-day workshop on Gond painting started under the guidance of traditional senior Gond painter Ram Singh Urveti under the Do and Learn Museum educational program at Indira Gandhi rashtriya manav sangrahalaya Bhopal.Explaining to the registered participants that this painting is based on folk tales and tribal traditions.
These pictures give a glimpse of the real world and the world of fantasy Koitur or Gond, the predominant tribe being biologically linked to nature, all the deities represent all forms of nature, Bada Dev Saja Tree,Thakur Dev Pakad Tree, for this reason the people of Gond tribe believe more in supernatural powers, Because this guardian deity protects from all kinds of harm. In Gond painting, the points are drawn by drawing lines and connecting each other.
Often it was made on the wall or floor of houses. Use the naturally occurring white, red, yellow, black, green, blue colours found in the surrounding areas of Patangarh. Like green colour from green bean leaf, yellow from Palash flower, black colour from coal, white colour from white touched soil, red colour from vermilion, blue colour from indigo. Songs, dances, folk tales, legends, folk tales, customs, religious acts in Gond painting have a close relationship with nature.
Because of this, in all Gond paintings, animals like peacocks, lions, bears, crocodiles, fish, rivers, mountains, fields, trees, these are the direct subjects of the paintings, On the two-dimensional canvas of length and width, with the help of lines and dots, make a distinctive image by giving multicoloured form. The coordinator of the program, Lalit Bagul, told the participants about the outline of the program and also gave guidance about how to mark the picture in the drawing sheet. He further said that the shapes of Gond paintings are of many colours, sometimes they are streaked, sometimes they are decorated with small dots and sometimes they are filled with some other geometric pattern. These artworks are made with poster colours on handmade paper.
The themes of the paintings reflect almost everything from the natural surroundings or the events of the daily life of the Gond tribe such as harvest, fields or family celebrations.