their hands…

 

Some more details in the dutties (female consorts) hands (holding a lemon and a lotus flower). I did a few photographs (not easy to hold those two things) then I pasted them into a photo of the painting in Photoshop and painted from the printout. Lately I have worked more this way. I works very well. I am not sure about the symbolism of those two items (lemon and lotus). Also one of them is holding a box of betel nuts (which are used to prepare the chewing stuff they use in India. The result of which is seen on the streets and in public staircases in the form of red spit marks.)