Kolam by Sudha Balaji

Those who follow me on social media may have observed that I share more reels than long videos. I was using the existing longer videos to create reels, shorts and was sharing them.  I still do. My ardent followers probably noticed and requested for new designs.   Any number of designs that we have is sufficient if we want to draw a new rangoli kolam daily throughout the year.  So, I shot videos of about 10 patterns that I had created (as I stated elsewhere, I try creating new designs in the afternoon, some of them become public as images or videos).   This post and the subsequent one are on the latest rangoli kolam I shared on Facebook. For those who want to draw with dots, this is a 5 by 5 dot rangoli, we can try freehand too. There are many posts with intermediate steps.  In this post I have shared only the completed images.   I have given the dot grid I have used also for pulli kolam.  Please try. This design was created using a 7 b...

 Refer to the previous post for a few latest rangoli designs. The next of designs are shared in this post.  Please Continuing from the previous post, though I have lots of designs ready, my cameraman (my husband:)) should be available to shoot the videos. He has been busy for a few weeks.  In fact, both of us were busy.  He is cross with me because he says photographers earn a lot from shooting videos and editing them, but I offer him only a cup of tea. It is just a joke.  Yes, editing is also done by him, and he has become quite good with experience.  He uses a high-end camera and software.   Occasionally we shoot videos directly from the mobile for shorts.  May be the algorithm likes it because it knows that the content is original. However, we prefer DSLR for quality and for the ability to accommodate big design s and longer videos.   When we shoot directly from the mobile there are still some restrictions so far as the size of t...