Lizard and its Prey - Gond Painting

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Lizard and its prey Gond Painting is one of the most popular handmade artworks offered online by GoRoots. Featuring the natural behaviour of the lizard one of the most dangerous reptiles, this painting brings forth its likely hunting instinct. The reptile is here showcased hurting the half-hatched eggs of a particular bird. Although the eggs are on branches of the tree, the lizard finds its way to get up right there and hunt and eventually kill them.
 
Just like other Gond paintings, this one too features the usual behaviours of animals and birds found in the villages and the surroundings. The artist has captured this unique scenario highly effectively and not for once the harmful nature of the lizard is hidden from the human eye. To make it all more appealing, the artist has used bright and most attractive colours. Whether it is the body of the lizard or the half-hatched eggs and the newborns peeping from the inside or the tree, the colours are distinctively used here as well and hence it enhances the charm of this tribal Gond painting effectively. The floral patterns, dots and lines are the other highlight of this amazing masterpiece.  
 
About Gond Painting
 
While for some, Gond Painting is an art form, for others it is a way of living the village life with contentment and satisfaction in all that they have been bestowed with. Practiced by the Gond tribes of Madhya Pradesh, the Gond painting is one of the oldest forms of wall painting art. It was first found in the caves of Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, one of the World Heritage Sites as declared by the UNESCO. Overtime, the clan widespread across several Indian states including Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
 
The common themes of Gond painting may range from religious festivities, activities and hobbies to marriages and supernatural entities as well. However, the main idea of the Gond painting is to symbolize the deities of the tribes in the form of trees and animals.
 
Just like other types of tribal painting, Gond portraits too make use of naturally found colours. In order to provide a rustic touch to the paintings, non-synthetic materials such as wooden coal, Chui soil, geru, sem leaves, sap of the tinsak plants and red soil is used. Soil is the main ingredient and freely available in the localities of the artists.
 
Though the painting looks easy to draw and simple to further decorate with patterns, Gond Painting has its own limitations and cannot be practiced properly unless an expert executes it.