The painted ceiling of the Virabhadra temple mahamandapa at Lepakshi is the largest surviving mural ensemble of the Vijayanagara empire. Over a ground of sandy river clay mixed with red ochre, lime and molasses, anonymous 16th-century painters sketched compositions in red ochre, filled them with flat earth colour, and outlined every figure in fine black — long-eyed deities in profile, marching through compartmentalised registers.

This design system carries that ceiling to the screen: a warm ochre-brown ground, yellow-ochre gold and deep red figures, blue-green accents, and everything framed by fine black rules into gridded narrative panels.