Warli Paintings

WARLI PAINTING...

I love warli paintings. I first came to know about warli paintings in school days. We decorated main entrance of school with warli paintings. The walls were yellow at top and brown at bottom. Beautiful warli paintings in white colour were drawn on brown part of wall. It was awesome. The paintings  were about the public gatherings. It is symbol of harmony between human being and nature.

Warli paintings belongs to a warli tribe located near Maharashtra. This art was developed in 1700 century and still is in trend. Close to nature, warli tribe developed this patterns by absorbing surrounding environment.

The patterns consist of shape like circle, triangle , rectangle and so on. Every shape symbolize a natural element. For example circle symbolizes sun and moon, triangle represents mountains while rectangle is piece of land. Warli painting takes you closer to nature.

I have listed 5 ways in which you can use Warli paintings to increase aesthetics of your house.

Earthen pots

Variety of earthen pots are available in market these days. Pots are available in many different colors and shapes. Either you can buy a ready made warli painted pots or you buy a raw pot and color it on your own. I will suggest former one as you can get a perfect color and your favorite painting.

After pots are ready all you have too do is find suitable location in house and arrange them properly. you can arrange warli pots both inside and outside of your living space.

Wall hanging piece

Warli painting wall piece are available in many shops. You can order online too. Select color combination suitable to color scheme of your home. The wall piece should be hang on wall which have sufficient amount of light. Right amount of light gives a rich look.

 Wall paper

You can use warli painting wall paper too. This is the easiest way to give your house a traditional look in affordable amount and in lesser time.

Plant containers

Plant container are of different colors like brown, black or red color . I always go for black color. Get one for you, then with white color draw warli painting of trees , birds , moon , sun and whatever you can think about. Then plant a sapling of small flower plants and arrange this planters based on shape and size in balcony. You will have a amazing space. You can read in peace here or just enjoy morning coffee. You can also have this warli painted plants in your living area. This will make your living room more alive.

                                               Curtains

A warli painting curtains will give your house a new look with less efforts. this is another way to achieve a traditional look.

Warli paintings will definitely change look of your home. If you wish to give your house a traditional make over, you should definitely try some of above ways.

If you love warli paintings too let me know in comments.