A Staunch miniature painting loyalist Shri Damodar Sharma is an artist who has kept alive an art form that is now on the decline. Hailing from chomu, a small mofusil town of Rajasthan (India), Shri Sharma has mastered this art and carved out a name for him in this field. He uses gold, lapis lozuli, and other precious and semi-precious stones, barks of trees, leaves and flowers to create natural colors that never lose their shine.

Starting with the traditional Mughal painting Shri Sharma has become bold and innovative and has panted gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon. Using paper and paint brushes that he himself makes, Damodar mixes and matches colors to give authenticity to his creations. By- gone eras are re- created with the help pf one strand- of- hair brush. This dot-work techniques now becoming a reared phenomenon but Damador has kept it alive in his work after meticulous research in this area.

In the painting that has been exhibited, Damodar has managed to evoke a harmonious blend of color and creativity. His paintings have been bought by connoisseurs and have been exhibited at the American Gallery of Vedic Art at Iowa, U.S.A. in 1998. From Drawing with charcoal on walls of the houses to mixing colors for miniature painting. Damodar has traveled a long way and today he is force to reckon with.