This art form has a distinct personality, with a painting style which is a mix of formal and folk art. The Traditional Tanjore Paintings are Painted with Jewellery and ornate dresses. The 'Canvas' for a Tanjore painting is usually a plank of teak wood over which a layer of cloth is pasted. The cloth is coated with lime paste and smoothened by rubbing with a smooth stone till the overlay is smooth, leveled and even. On this canvas, the art is pencil-sketched, painted and embedded with stones.
Relief work is done with a paste on top of which gold foils are pasted.
Then the Painting is framed on a artistic teak wood Frames. S.C. Mahesha Kumara's Tanjore Paintings are testimony to the beauty of this ancient Indian art that is renowned the world over. The traditional themes of Tanjore Paintings are usually Hindu Gods and Goddesses. S.C. Mahesha Kumara does the traditional kind of Tanjore Painting and also he has done vast and massive research on Tanjore Paintings. He does the Modern paintings in the Traditional Tanjore Art Method.