How to paint Lord Brahma

Kurma Dasa: Srila Prabhupada received a letter from Jadurani dasi, his artist disciple in America, along with an enclosed sketch for the proposed cover of the upcoming unpublished volume of the Fourth Canto, Volume One of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The sketch showed Lord Vishnu sitting on the back of his eagle carrier, Garuda. In his eight arms he held, in a clockwise direction, a conch, an arrow, a bow, a disc, a lotus, sword, shield and club. Jadurani enquired whether the items were placed correctly. Srila Prabhupada replied to her letter, confirming that they were. Jadurani also wondered how she should paint Lord Brahma.
In Prabhupada’s room in Auckland, devotees had mounted a framed poster of Lord Brahma flying in the sky seated on his carrier, as Krishna and his cowherd boyfriends enjoyed their lunch below. Prabhupada referred to this picture in his reply.
So far Lord Brahma, paint him just like you have painted already in the poster where he is flying on the swan for stealing Krishna’s cowherd friends and cows.