Nandalal's work depicts changing landscapes, portraits of people, sketches from life and places at the time of changing outlook in the modern Indian cultural domain. His nature to explore the various materials and mediums allowed him to make a prolific body of work in different mediums.  He painted many indigenous landscapes with ink wash technique. Most of his landscapes also carry the sign with a seal by the artist like in the Chinese paintings made with wash techniques.  The landscapes captured the atmosphere; its vastness, calmness, etc in the lines and tones he used in treating it.  Every landscape painted by him, be it a black and white rendering, is unique and intrigues the onlooker to travel within the painting.

Every landscape painted by him, be it a black and white rendering, is unique and intrigues the onlooker to travel within the painting.