Chhath (Chhath Puja Celebration) Mixed Media Religious Painting

This watercolor stages a city as both memory and ritual: a luminous band of ochres and golds rises like a temple of heat and noise, while inked figures below gather in hushed procession, their faces rendered as communal echoes rather than individual portraits. In the foreground, the woman in blue becomes the painting’s still center—her lowered gaze and the deliberate pour from a clay vessel turn a simple act into an offering, a measured release that cools the surrounding tumult. The composition pivots between sketch and saturation, suggesting how daily life is carried by faith and labor, and how the sacred can be found not in spectacle but in repeated gestures of care. Birds cut through the violet sky like fleeting thoughts, stitching the personal and the collective into one continuous, breathing atmosphere.