Painted Houses Cowdung Mud Round Huts Kids India Rajasthan 1f Acrylic Print

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Painted Houses Cowdung Mud Round Huts Kids India Rajasthan 1f.
While travelling around the vast countryside in Rajasthan, India, we suddenly came across this beautiful settlement. A group of humble huts or small houses, some round, some square. They all wore a beautiful decorative look. For one thing, their walls, made of mud, were plastered over with cowdung! Once dry, the cowdung layer on thewall was painted over with simple ethnic designs in the traditional style. Red, white, yellow and other such color pigments, made of vegetables and other natural organic materials, have been used to paint these lovely designs. The designs are similar to rangoli or kolams, which are often drawn or painted, freshly every day, onto the floor of each house, just outside the front doorway.
There were a dozen such houses in this settlement. And to add to the charm, there was a mud wall going all round the community, also painted in the same beautiful fashion. There was a gate in the outer wal...

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