Madhurima Class 9 Chapter 15, Mediums and Techniques in Visual Art, moves beyond sketching to materials and methods, from the earth pigments of prehistoric cave painting to today’s digital drawing devices.
What Madhurima Chapter 15 Covers
What a medium is: the materials, tools and processes used to make art: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textile and paper crafts, and digital art. The chapter introduces them through a conversation between Sharmila, Samir and Sukhbir, who is covered in charcoal.
Caring for materials: choose non-toxic, sustainable materials, wash brushes with soap and dry them bristles up, cap tubes and markers, and store paper and canvas flat and dry, with cutters and needles kept safely in a box.
Sculptural crafts of India: a gallery of handcrafted objects from every region and the communities who keep these crafts alive.
Colour theory: the Chitra-sūtra names white, yellow, red, blue and black as the basic colours, which mix into countless tints and shades. Traditional painters made black from lamp soot. The exercises use complementary and analogous colour pairs in a Mewar miniature (1680–1690).
Perspective: in linear perspective, parallel lines meet at a vanishing point on the horizon. Aerial (atmospheric) perspective uses colour: near hills are rich, far ones hazy. Activity 15.7 reimagines dancers from a Deccan miniature using both techniques.
Exercises in Chapter 15
- List five or six natural sources of colour from food and nature.
- Find two complementary and two analogous colour pairs in a Mewar miniature.
- Describe a painting’s scene and analyse its perspective.
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More Chapters
- Previous: Chapter 14: Exploring the Fundamentals of Visual Arts
- Next: Chapter 16: Visual Composition
- All Art chapters and the other Class 9 books: Class 9 NCERT books 2026-27
FAQ
What are the basic colours in the Chitra-sūtra?
White, yellow, red, blue and black, which are mixed to make every other colour, tint and shade.
What is aerial perspective?
Showing depth through colour: nearby objects are painted rich and clear, distant ones paler and hazier, as if behind mist.