Kachni-style Madhubani painting of a large fish and two smaller fish drawn in fine black lines with red accents

Sacred Fish

A large fish with two smaller ones, drawn in Kachni, the line-work style of Madhubani, in black with red accents.

Style: Kachni
Size: 12 × 16 in · 30.5 × 40.6 cm · 12 × 16 in
Medium: Acrylic and archival ink on acid-free cotton paper
Colours: Black, red and white

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About the painting

Kachni means line work. Instead of blocks of colour, the fish is built from thousands of fine black lines: hatching, dots and small repeated shapes inside every scale and fin, with touches of red.

The fish is the most common motif in Mithila painting. It appears on wedding walls, on gifts and on doorways as a sign of prosperity and fertility.

What you are looking at

Fish: Prosperity, fertility and good luck
Fine line work: The Kachni style, built from line instead of filled colour

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