Kishore Sadashiv Mashe, grandson of the acclaimed painter Jivya Soma Mashe, was born in Ganjad village, Maharashtra, in 1984. He learnt the technique from his family. Typically, Warlis are simply painted on mud, charcoal and cow dung-treated surfaces with rice paste for the colour white. The figures and traditional motives are repetitive and highly symbolic. Triangular humans and animals with stick-like hands and legs and geometrical designs with rows of dots and dashes are drawn on the surface. Kishore, like other Warli painters, makes time after teaching at a school and other day to day activities to paint in the evenings. His work takes after that of Jivya Soma Mashe in the intricate geometric patterns and compositions. Kishore lives in his village with family and works from home.
