so on. • The main narrative is spiced up with scenes from simple rural life - Women doing chores in the kitchen, men working in the paddy fields or boozing away in merry abandon, festival scenes, etc. are endearingly depicted. • The costumes and settings in which the figures are depicted are typical and reflect the culture of Andhra, where these paintings originated. • Within the narrow panels, proportion is created by depicting trees, or a building, a pillar with drawn curtains, etc. However more often than not, the proportion of individual characters is determined by their relative importance in that particular scene, with the most important character being the largest and most detailed and the lesser characters being smaller and less detailed. GI rights Cheriyal scroll painting received Intellectual Property Rights Protection or Geographical Indication (GI) status in 2008. References Bibliography Further reading (see index: p. 148-152) External links Changing colours Ancient Audio Visual Entertainment Schools of Indian painting Culture of Telangana Hanamkonda district Geographical indications in Telangana Indian folk art nl:Cheriyal