Thursday, April 28, 2011

Latest Trend To Decorate The House With Decorative Paintings

Everyone likes to live in the beautifully decorated house. For many, it is a costly affair that needs handsome investment while it is not so. Nowadays, decorating the house with handmade arts and crafts items is the latest trend. Many stores offline and online both offer wide array of decorative paintings and floor mounted decor items. As most of the houses don’t have enough floor space, so decor enthusiasts prefer wall decoration with paintings. Tanjore paintings, krishna oil painting are good in demand because of their international recognization, unique theme and a class apart art.

Tanjore painting is classical form of South Indian painting that principally belongs to Thanjavur located in Tamil Nadu, India. The traces of this art go back to 1600 AD, when Nayakas of Tanjavur encouraged this art. The theme of these paintings is religious; so, these portrait devotional icons, Hindu gods, goddesses or saints. Some people like to have these paintings in a series. Serial paintings state a particular incident of that period. These are made on solid wood planks covered with cloth. The decoration with semi precious pearls makes them more attractive. These can be used in the houses and the offices both.

The other high craze for handmade painting is for krishna oil painting. This painting is done with pigments bound with the medium of drying oil. Various tales and episodes related with Lord Hrshna are depicted on these paintings. Insertion of Gopis and cows make these painting universally recognized because both of these are known closely related with Krishna. The presence of these painting in the drawing room or in the office reflects your religious and decor senses.


The handmade paintings are available in different sizes. Many stores offer customization services also where you can give the specific size. The handmade paintings are made with numerous colors so these coordinate with any kind of existing decoration. If sourced from trusted sources, it doesn't give any feel of faded color. These are everlasting decoration for any house; therefore, you can use them as gift item also.

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