Radha Krishna Holi drawings: playing with colour, the pichkari, flower Holi

Drawings of Radha and Krishna playing Holi in Braj, as the songs of Vrindavan and Barsana tell it, to copy for a drawing class. Each scene shows the couple at play: Krishna smearing gulal on Radha's cheek, spraying her with a pichkari under a kadamba tree, or the two in falling flower petals. The styles are graphite pencil, colour pencil and Madhubani line art. Type a different scene, such as gopis dancing, and the same styles carry it.

• A drawing class project on Holi in Braj
• A festival chart for a school or a temple hall
• A copy-by-hand drawing for a child or a student
• A line art page for a cultural lesson

Frequently asked questions

What is Madhubani?

Madhubani is a folk line art from the Mithila region of Bihar, drawn in black ink with double outlines, hatching and dots.

Can a student copy these by hand?

Yes. The pencil sketch and the Madhubani style use clear outlines on plain white paper.

What is the difference between the three styles?

Pencil sketch is graphite with soft shading, colour pencil adds blue skin and yellow cloth over a black outline, and Madhubani is black ink line art in a patterned border.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.