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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...
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Mayil kolam eppadi poduvathu steps

Tuesday kolangal | Karthigai rangoli | Bhogi rangolis
One of the commonly used and most favourite designs are the peacock rangoli for Diwali. It is a ubiquitous design. 

We say as proud as a peacock, we are proud of a peacock rangoli we create for festivals including for Dhanteras rangoli attractive,

I have used colour rangoli powder directly instead of drawing with white and filling with colours.  For this the quality of colour kola podi should be good. 

 I get it from Nagpur; there we get very good quality rangoli colours. if you want parrot kolam with dots for New Year 

Such beautiful and intricate kolams can be drawn for Karthigai festival or vratham because mayil is considered as vahanam of Murugan.

Dot pattern used is 9 to 1

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  We can also draw for Bhogi, Mattu Pongal and Kanum Pongal when medium sized rangoli designs are displayed.  
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If you are confident with the quality of colours you can draw directly with colours, it saves time.

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If you are looking for Sankranthi nemali muggulu
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or peacock chukki rangoli designs, you may like this navilu design
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this rangoli design was created by me long back, I think in 2013 if my memory serves me right. 
You may not be surprised with the influence of free hand patterns because I started with rangoli sans dots only.
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Rangoli tip -     I have used colour rangoli powder directly instead of drawing with white and filling with colours.  For this the quality of colour kola podi should be good.  I get it from Nagpur; there we get very good quality rangoli colours.

For using colours directly ensure that they are not flour like then they will not flow properly.  

You may try this for a tradional Diwali rangoli for peacock or Diwali rangoli mor wali.

Coming to this tutorial (I hope I may be permitted to use the term), this kolam was initially created as a free hand design (cliche - I have a liking for freehand kolangal.  So, I usually create them and see if they fit into a dot grid). 

 Later I tried with a 7-dot pattern that was not sufficient.  I disc.  overed that 9 to 1 pulli was okay. 

 Usually, ner pulli grids are for simple designs and idukku pulli are for more complicated designs.  For those who are not aware ner pulli means 5 to 1, 7 to 1, 9 to 1 etc and idukku pulli is 5 to 3, 7 to 4, 9 to 5 etc. 

 After trying and with some degree of difficulty I could fit the muggu in the dot grid.  If you observe the pictures carefully, I think you will understand what I am trying to convey.  

Bookmark this idea of Dhantheras rangoli acchi wali. 

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