Techniques of Patna or Company School of Painting
The technique of these paintings were called Kajli Syahi Drawn straight by brush and not pencil in which painted heavy nose, eyebrows and at places geometrical designs were drawn figures of carpenters and ironsmith etc. have been painted in sepia and ridd(geru) color. Garments were of little white color and shadows have been showing by blood red, light gold, deep peacock blue etc. The depth and high light was the outcome result of European effect. Neplese paper was used at that time later an important paper from England was used for painting. Some painter also painted on Ivory and Mica.
Painters used to make color out of flowers. Fruits, stones, earth, lampblack, red stone, oyster or shell, snails, neel, ramraj, ruddle lac and narural pigments etc. Color prepared were black, blue, yellow, green, red, orange, grey and shell grey etc. Gum was used to prepare water color, gold color prepared by golden leaf or varka. They boiled the hair of squirrel’s tail, camel hair, deer hair for quite sometime. Paintings on mica and ivory were done by mineral color. Most of the works are preserved in different museum.
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