Warli: An Art With Geometry (Workshop with Lalima Srivastava)

Enter this workshop on Warli, an Indian folk art, and learn how to depict daily life scenes with geometrical shapes. With guidance from Lalima, you will learn the following:

• Sketching the human in various poses (e.g., standing, running, sitting, or dancing)
• Drawing the Tarpa Dance and the Tarpa Player
• Basics of sketching a tree and its variations
• Sketching huts
• Creating a composition combining all of these elements, in the final parts of the workshop.

Materials will be provided for use on the day of the workshop.

History of Warli Art

Warli art originated in the Thane district of Maharashtra. It is traditionally created by tribal women. The word “Warli” comes from “warla” which means a piece of land or a field. These paintings depict daily life scenes portraying hunting, fishing and farming, festivals and dances, trees and animals. Images of human beings and animals, along with scenes from daily life are created in a loose rhythmic pattern through very basic graphic expressions : a circle, a triangle and a square, and is done only in white. Nowadays, these paintings are made on hand-made paper, usually green or brown, the color of mud-walls with white paint.

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Lalima is a self-taught contemporary folk artist. Trained as a professional social worker, she encountered diverse folk art forms in their natural cultural settings—an experience that deeply shaped her artistic voice. Among these, Warli art from Maharashtra and Madhubani art from Bihar left a lasting impact on her practice.

Based in Sunnyvale, Lalima began her artistic journey in 2014 after moving to the United States. Over the past decade, she has exhibited her work in various galleries and art festivals. Her distinctive style emerges from a thoughtful fusion of Warli and Madhubani styles, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. She works on multimedia paper using watercolor, gouache, acrylics, and archival waterproof pens.

Website: https://www.lalimasrivastava.com/

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