This fusion honours the tendu season, when whole families fan into the forest to gather and tie the leaves that feed a major rural income across central India. The brief was to draw the work as a family rhythm: a large woman picking at the centre, children carrying head-loads and a boy bundling, so the scene reads as collective labour rather than a single posed figure. Gond suits the subject naturally — the tendu bushes become leaf-dot mounds, each leaf carries a vein-line, and the finished bundles are banded folk sheaves, so the lower field has the texture of a real day's haul. The comma-rows on the sari and the dotted clothes keep the figures alive. Keeping it medium-light meant letting the dark teal ground breathe between the bushes so the gathering reads at a glance, with a tree and two birds at the edges for the forest around them.