Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.64

v2.c77.64

Hence in the technique of painting, the plasters and ointments together with the delineations of colours and shades have a fundemental importance. In the remote times, the arts like painting had much of their charm in objective presentations rather than in the subjective representations—their counterparts in the modern paintings. For every detail—the preparation of the background, the preparation of the plasters and ointments—they had to struggle hard before they could fit with a canvas so laboriously prepared and with a brush so difficult to be shaped into one. In the S. S. in the Chap. entitled “Lepyarkarma”, the 73rd, is elaborated another set of the essentials of painting—namely the preparation of the clay suitable in the plaster and ointment and the process of their preparation together with the varieties of the brushes and their use in the delineation of the details of the pictorial art.