Besides teaching drawing classes to the students in the school, Dorje, the traditional art teacher, maintains an ongoing painting studio at the school.
Dorje in Drawing Class
There he works on his own commissions and trains apprentices in the rigorous art of tanghka painting. Here are few photos of his studio.
Two Works in Progress
Note how the tangkha are painted on canvas stretched tightly on wood frames.
Dorje Explains how to Apply Colors
Work in Progress (detail)
Work in Progress (detail, 2)
It can take seven months to finish one tangkha painting and the level of detail in these examples explains the reason for that.
- Eric C. Rath
