The Lord Shiva is associated with common Hindu mythology and popular psyche in many different images and forms. He is made in to the whimsical husband as well as the angry dancer who turns the entire world to ashes with his dance. The portrait shows him in one of his most traditional images, in deep meditation and penance on the peaks of the Himalayas. The traditional elements that are associated with him have all been recreated with a lot of attention to details. Lord Shiva or according to this particular image, Mahadev is known to be wearing tiger skin with a snake wrapped around his neck, his hair in dreadlocks, the traditional tilak where the third eye also appears at times, his instruments and the trishula. Here, in order to signify the calamity of his circumstances and the perils of the Himalayas, the snow clad peaks of the Himalayas have been depicted in blue and white. The shades have been portrayed perfectly. The sky also features the dying rays of the sun at a distance. These rays also fall on the snow in the background to create an image that is quite surreal while realistic at the very same time.