We briefed this as a calm central-deity icon, because Saraswati is worshipped frontally and Cheriyal does a still goddess beautifully when the composition is symmetrical and the ground left open. She sits on a pink lotus dead-centre playing the veena, four arms balanced, a green halo behind her, with two small attendants mirrored left and right so the eye settles immediately on the instrument. The vahana beats sit low — the white swan that legend says can separate milk from water, the peacock, and a stack of books — so the icon carries her attributes without clutter. Medium-light fill keeps the vermilion ground breathing around the lotus so the figure reads as a serene presence; flat golden-ochre against red, pink lotus, no shading, is the Nakashi way of making a deity glow.