The brief was to hold the single best second of the makhan-chor story: not the theft, not the scolding, but the reach — Krishna stretched toward the hanging pot while Yashoda's hand comes up. Central-deity composition keeps the blue child as the unmistakable hero, large and low at the picture's heart, with the hanging pot pulling the eye up-left and the broken pot below telling you how the last one ended. We kept the calves flat and few so the cream ground stays open and the reach reads instantly. It is classic Raghurajpur Krishna iconography, drawn calm enough to read from across a room.