Himalayan Art Resources

Subject: Halo Art (Key Points & Examples)

Halo Art

Three Art Topics: (shape, colour, tradition/style)

1. Shape
--- Design
--- Size
--- Decorative

2. Colour
--- Solid
--- Transparent
--- Layered (rainbow, fade, others)

3. Painting Tradition/Style
--- Chronology
--- Region


Iconographic Subjects:
- Peaceful
- Semi-peaceful/wrathful
- Wrathful

Examples: Peaceful & Semi-Peaceful from Miscellaneous Subjects:
Ornate: #88703, 37, 850
Oblong: #36445, 58324, 101327
Circle:
- dominant solid colour: #73267
- rings of colour: #69421
- transparent: #61215, 65349, 55712
- large: #65367, 8556
- small:
Single, large circle: #59633
Mixed, solid & transparent:
Irregular shape:
Colour & fire:
No halo: 65580, 69435
Others...

Jeff Watt [updated 12-2021]

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).