The ivory tones of the body are framed within the dark tresses and loose clinging attires in scenes. There is slight shading on the faces. Towards the end of the 18th century, a new feature of broad borders in burnished red around the composition emerged. The Krishna legend, love scenes and women at leisure remained popular with painters. In some Ragmalas and paintings of the Krishna legend, an underlying turbulence is expressed in the swaying of trees and sometimes communicated by the very ground the characters tread on and the lightning in the sky.
Figures tend to squat and compositions are ill organized, overcrowded and coarsely painted.
The inevitable decline had set in, coinciding with the decline of the Mughal power in Delhi. The excellence of natural scenes in Bundi miniatures was shared and equaled by Kota miniatures, a sister state, which became free from Bundi in the early 17th century. Kota is rich in densely forested areas and harbors big games. The characteristic feature of Kota paintings is the felicity with which hunting scenes are depicted and the spirit of the wild captured in its essentials. The earthshaking confrontations of elephants and the tiger hunt have been depicted in fastidiously observed details.