At the River,  Madhubani folk art, Bihar Province (North East India), a woman shown near a stream, with three deer, rendered in traditional NE Indian style, pen, ink and vegetable color.

Madhubani or Mithila folk art has been practiced by people in and around the town of Madhubani for many generations.  Artists, mostly women, use vegetable color, ochre and lampblack to paint figures from nature, myth and Hindism on household and town walls to mark seasonal festivals and events.  Their techniques are zealously guarded and are passed from mother to daughter.  Madhubani artists first begin to sell their work on handmade paper to earn income during a drought in Bihar in the 1960s.  Today Madhubani paintings are among the best known folk art schools in India