Seated on low cushions in a sunny wooden floored room were a group of painters intensely working on their canvases. Stretched over a wooden frame with an adjustable tension cord, the gessoed cotton canvas surface was then polished with a smooth stone or glass until no canvas texture remained. One artist was drawing his intricate traditional (and fairly prescribed) design on the canvas with a pencil. Others were applying natural pigment paint to the surface with small brushes, ensuring that brushstrokes were not apparent. Colors were tested on the artist’s hand. The detailed painting is embellished in gold and then mounted in silk brocade. A Thangka painting can take between 18 days to one month to complete.
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