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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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Simple kolam for Margazhi month

A collection of very simple kolam that we can try for Margali masam.  These small kolangal can be drawn as kolams without dots .   Add colour to get awesome designs.
While medium size and big rangoli designs are popular during this month.  Occasionally i.e at least a few times in 30 days we may need  small rangoli too .
The first three  rangoli designs can be  tried as pulli illatha kolam .  I have shared only the white kolam.  Please add colours .  It is practically difficult to share all kolam with colours.  I will exhaust my stock quickly and will have to trouble my sister to send it from Nagpur :)

1) White rangoli without dots small

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2) Without chukki small white rangoli

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3) One more small and simple kolam

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4) Birds kolam small and simple - white peacocks , may be 

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Sikku kolam of various sizes are hugely popular during Dhanurmasam aka Margazhi .  Here I share a beautiful chikku kolam through few pics
The dot pattern is 9 dots 2 rows then 7,5,3,1 
                                              
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A tricky kolam , I have tried to make it simple through easy steps . 

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Lines move like the waves of the sea - said a viewer on Facebook 

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Some of my followers who are traditional insist of use of rice flour only for drawing rangoli.  Kolam in Tamil Nadu was drawn only with rice flour.  It is difficult for those who try this art for the first time to get perfect lines with arisi maavu (rice flour). Due to the nature of the flour, it does not flow well, and control is difficult.  The result may be discouraging for beginners. 

We remember reading somewhere - it is like the pole used by an athlete.  He/she needs the pole to rise to that height and after reaching the top he/she has to let go the pole to go to the other side.  Similarly, rangoli powder is like the pole for a beginner.  Experts can try with dry rice flour.  

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