Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster × Indian Calendar

Hand-painted film posters grew from calendar art; reuse its glowing faces and saturated colour for entertainment work.

From the research on Indian Calendar & Bazaar Art

Mix them and make something Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Indian Calendar

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Indian Calendar, their arrangement from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster, the finish from Indian Calendar. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Indian Calendar & Bazaar Art

Type from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster: Hand-lettering
Ornamented display
Colour from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster: Full polychrome
Complementary clash
Form from Indian Calendar: Naturalistic depiction
Abundant decoration
Composition from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster: Collage & layering
Extreme scale contrast
Surface from Indian Calendar: Gloss & highlights
Painterly brushwork

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster

Rose

Yatra One; Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster used Hand-drawn 3D title logos and Extruded and drop-shadowed display capitals

Text · Indian Calendar

Mass-printed images of Hindu deities, epic scenes, saints, nationalist heroes and film stars, sold in bazaars and given away as business calendars, from the chromolithographs of the Calcutta Art Studio and Ravi Varma Press to Sivakasi offset. Frontal, idealised figures painted with academic naturalism glow against dreamy landscapes, in saturated colour with gold, haloes and ornate frames above the sponsor's name and calendar pad.

Archivo; Indian Calendar used Hand-drawn Devanagari display lettering and Hand-lettered Tamil and Bengali titles

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster, with a counter-accent from Indian Calendar. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster Indian Calendar & Bazaar Art

#1a1418 ground · 36%
#ffd23f ink · 14%
#f28c1c accent · 18%
#b3121b accent · 14%
#1b6fa8 accent · 10%
#e8a07f accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #1a1418;
  --ink: #ffd23f;
  --accent-1: #f28c1c;
  --accent-2: #b3121b;
  --accent-3: #1b6fa8;
  --accent-4: #e8a07f;
  --font-display: "Yatra One", cursive;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Indian Calendar & Bazaar Art: These are devotional images that many viewers worship, so do not crop, distort or deface deities or place them on footwear, floors, underwear or in mocking contexts. Many original painters went uncredited; name the artist and press where known.

The two styles

A colourful painted-style film poster combines three large portraits with an embracing couple, horsemen, a steam train, snowy mountains, a helicopter, a hilltop fortress and a waterfall. Huge yellow-and-red Devanagari lettering spans the lower portion above a waterfront procession with elephants and boats.

1940–1999 · South Asia Hand-Painted Bollywood Poster The painted publicity of Bombay's Hindi film industry, at its height from the 1940s to the 1980s. Studio artists painted portrait-led montages that were printed by lithography and offset as posters, booklets and press ads, while hoarding painters enlarged them by hand onto giant cinema billboards. Floating star heads, melodramatic colour and bold hand-drawn title logos were its signature until digital photo printing displaced it in the 1990s. 1878–present · South Asia Indian Calendar & Bazaar Art Mass-printed images of Hindu deities, epic scenes, saints, nationalist heroes and film stars, sold in bazaars and given away as business calendars, from the chromolithographs of the Calcutta Art Studio and Ravi Varma Press to Sivakasi offset. Frontal, idealised figures painted with academic naturalism glow against dreamy landscapes, in saturated colour with gold, haloes and ornate frames above the sponsor's name and calendar pad.

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