The studio

We paint on walls, not screens.

Kalpavanya is a hand-painting studio. Every piece is drawn, scaled and painted on site by hand — no vinyl, no printed panels, no shortcuts that peel in two years.

What we make

Murals for schools, offices, cafés and homes. Hand-lettered signage. Wall-scale illustration that has to survive weather, sunlight and being touched by hundreds of people a week.

The work is slow on purpose. A painted wall carries a texture and a depth that a printed one never gets close to — you can see the brush, and so can everyone who walks past it.

The most recent body of work is a set of fifteen pieces for Balbharati in Pune, painted for the bureau's diamond jubilee — sixty years of Maharashtra's school textbooks, put back on the walls at full size. See the whole set.

Still to write: a short paragraph on who started the studio, when, and why you paint by hand. That's the one thing on this page nobody else can write for you.

Hand-painted mural of two children turning a globe on a wooden stand — The World in Their Hands · Balbharati, Pune

How a piece gets made

Four stages, every time. Knowing the sequence makes it easier to plan around us — and to see where your input matters most.

Site visit and measure

We come to the wall. Measure it, check the surface and how light falls on it through the day, and note anything that will affect the paint — damp, old coatings, direct sun. The wall decides a lot about what can be painted on it.

Sketch and colour study

You get a drawing and a colour study to scale before any paint is opened. This is the stage to change your mind — it costs nothing here and a great deal later.

Scaling onto the wall

The approved drawing is gridded and transferred by hand at full size. Proportions that read well on an A3 sheet rarely survive scaling untouched, so this stage is drawing, not tracing.

Painting and sealing

Painted in layers, then sealed against sun and water. Exterior walls get a UV-stable coat. We hand over care notes so the piece can be cleaned without damaging it.

Check this: these four stages are how mural work usually runs — adjust the wording so it matches how you actually work, especially timelines and what the client signs off on.

Services

What we take on.

Murals

Interior and exterior, from a single wall to a full courtyard.

Signage

Hand-lettered and hand-painted signs, boards and shopfronts.

Branding

Identity work that carries through to painted surfaces.

Illustration

Commissioned artwork, on paper or on wood.

Edit this: only list what you genuinely take on and can show examples of. A short honest list converts better than a long aspirational one.

Have a wall in mind?

Send a photo of it and a rough size. That's enough to start.

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