An advanced art studio · India-based · Works worldwide

Walls, by hand and by design.

Two workbenches under one lamp — a wet pigment tray beside a glowing tablet, both showing the same mural sketch

The studio, any given evening

One lamp. Two benches. A pigment tray drying beside a tablet that holds the same mural, sketched twice.

— Hand-painted murals — Original artworks — Mural & wall-art design — Design to production — Homes · Commercial · Commissions

Do haath — two hands, one studio

The brush didn't retire when the screen arrived. They share a workbench.

Most studios picked a side. The artisans went nostalgic. The print shops went generic. We refused the split — and kept both hands working, on the same walls, for the same clients, since 2018.

Craft one · By hand

A paint-flecked hand guiding a fine brush across a half-painted indigo botanical wall

Rang on plaster

Rang — रंग, pigment, colour. A collective of independent Indian artists paints originals and murals straight onto the wall. Natural-bristle brushes, mineral and acrylic pigment, a charcoal grid first, scaffolding when the ceiling demands it. Every stroke stays visible. That is the point.

Craft two · By design

A stylus on a pen display showing a marigold mural design, physical pigment swatches laid beside the screen

Pixels to production

A design practice builds wall art and murals digitally — concept, artwork, colour proofs checked against physical swatches, then coordinated print or fabrication and install. Same eyes. Same judgment about scale and light. A different tool in the hand.

How we decide which

"Tell us about the wall. We'll tell you whether it wants a brush or a press — and then we'll make it."

Selected work

Walls we've finished.

All work

Pichwai-style lotus mural glowing behind candle-lit tables in a restaurant — By hand Restaurant · Pichwai lotus wall Forty-one days of brushwork. The lotuses were drawn at table-lamp height, so they bloom where the diners actually look.

Lippan mirror-work feature wall catching light in a hotel lobby — Designed & fabricated Hotel lobby · Lippan mirror wall Designed on screen, set by hand — clay relief and mirror inlay mapped to the lobby's morning light.

Indigo botanical mural wrapping the headboard wall of a bedroom — By hand Residence · Indigo botanical Neel indigo over clay plaster. Painted in eight days while the family stayed in the next room.

Marigold folk-bird mural across the back wall of a café — Designed & printed Café · Marigold folk birds Drawn digitally from folk-painting references, proofed against genda-marigold pigment, printed and installed in two days.

The hand process, in brief

From bare wall to finished wall, in plain sight.

Both processes, step by step

Charcoal grid and first sketch lines on a plaster wall — 01 **Sketch**Charcoal grid, full scale, on the wall itself.

Flat blocks of underpaint establishing the mural's main shapes — 02 **Underpaint**Flat colour blocks. The wall looks wrong here. It's supposed to.

Fine vermillion detail brushwork over the underpainting — 03 **Detail**Fine brushes, vermillion linework, days of it.

The finished mural with the room arranged back around it — 04 **Reveal**Scaffolding down, furniture back, wall changed for good.

The Kolorkaari studio — easels and drying canvases on one side, monitors and a pen display on the other

The studio

Started in 2018 with a paintbrush.

The screens came later, and they came as tools — not replacements. Today Kolorkaari is a collective of independent Indian artists and designers: muralists, colourists, a digital design bench, a production hand who argues with printers until the proofs match the pigment.

India-based. We deliver worldwide — painted on site where we can travel, designed and fabricated where we can't.

Meet the studio

Indian pigment powders — sindoor red, indigo, marigold — heaped in brass bowls — The bench, photographed These bowls sit between the easels and the monitors. Both crafts mix from them.

Rang — the studio palette

Every colour here came off a bench, not a trend chart.

Even this website is mixed from the studio's own materials. Named, like pigments should be.

Clay Plasterthe wall before anything happens to it#E8DCC8
Sindoorvermillion — the first mark, used sparingly#C3392B
Neel Indigothe dye vat — and the colour of the screen bench#2B3A67
Genda Marigoldtemple-garland yellow, for small flares#E8A33D
Sootlamp-black ink. Never pure black — soot never is#1C1814