Small and beautiful rangoli designs

The first rangoli is a unique one created by me.   Observe how simple it is to create birds in rangoli kolam art.  The birds resemble ducks, don't they.

All intricate details that are required in drawing or painting or not required here.  A simple free hand design to represent a bird will suffice.

 To further improve the rangoli the birds are shown carrying fruits.  Fill the rangoli with colours as shown in the image. 

It will suffice if we draw colourful lines inside the rangoli design.  A floral design with birds is ready for use.

 One of the easiest and best ways to make birds patterns ! It is not necessary to fill the entire rangoli with colours  in these types of rangoli. 

That is the beauty of this traditional art form.  We can depict birds and flowers quite easily .  It is not necessary to draw them with 

a piece of chalk and then drawn with rangoli powder.  We can represent Nature through simple images or patterns.

Rangoli sans dots as I named it was all about free hand rangoli particularly with double lines, initially.

The blog got a great welcome.

However, several requests were received for simple rangoli designs so as to enable beginners to learn this beautiful art.

That is when I realised that it will not suffice if I share only the difficult 2 line version .  To encourage more people to practice

I began to share easy and small rangoli designs without chukki ( i.e without dots)/  Again there were requests for dot rangoli 

So I started creating and sharing rangoli designs with dots too.

This collection of simple and beautiful rangoli designs shared through the images below are with colour.

For daily purpose rangoli we can draw them with white rangoli powder and for festivals like New Year and Pongal we can fill fill with colours.                         

These rangoli / kolam designs may be useful for those who want small and simple designs for Diwali bhaubeej, Margazhi or Navratri

1) Simple rangoli kolam without dots 

2) Easy rangoli kolam

3) Small rangoli for door side

4) Small rangoli for Pooja room

This collection is from my earliest collection of rangoli for Diwali celebration created on the kitchen platform in 2012 or 2013. 

That was when I ventured into sharing rangoli images on an exclusive kolam website.  I was always busy, in a joint family with my in-laws and young children.  When the children grew up and became independent, I had a lot of time at hand. 

My son had gone to another city for his higher studies, and my daughter was in high school.  It was a sort of partial empty nest feeling.  So, to divert myself, I started drawing these designs while working in the kitchen. 

That was when my husband saw these and gave me the idea to share on a rangoli website.  The thought of creating videos did not occur then. 

Coming to the rangoli for Diwali Dhanteras in the pics above all of them are quite simple I like the first one in particular with sketches of birds carrying fruits drawn radially.

See how easy it is to represent birds in this art. I think they represent swans.  

The second one became quite popular as a video, I drew it again for a video when I shared videos on rangoli designs on YouTube. 

Question _ Kolam art belongs to which state - Answer Tamil Nadu

"What a dedication mam, I am glad to watch this in the morning- our culture to make rangoli - this traditional way of making rangoli _ I am going to try this - really thankful for sharing this " - such comments make me emotional, and I strive to create more and share more rangoli designs.