Kolam by Sudha Balaji

The elephant kolam design is a popular kolam with dots found in public domain.  It is also a popular kolam in our family.  Just as we have "family song" in our movies, there are some rangolis with dots that have been popular in our family for decades.   This is one of them.  Another using  birds  has been shown in an earlier kolam here in this blog.  More will follow in the future. The dot pattern for this rangoli is 21 to 1 (ner pulli).  First draw all the elephants one by one.  Then the central floral design is drawn, and the remaining dots are filled with floral designs.   Finally, the colours are filled, and remaining gaps are filled with some colour, brown in this case.  Free hand decorations of the elephant are done to complete the kolam with 21 dots this can be classified as a big kolam with dots. There are many more kolam that need a dot pattern using 20 and 25 dots.  Since drawing them by the traditional meth...

How to draw chukki rangoli designs with colours. I hope you agree that it is beautiful .  A complete flower with petals sepals and stamen !.   Six such flowers to get an awesome kolam . For those who are visiting this website for the first time I get my   rangoli colours   from a place called Koradi (there is is famous Goddess Lakshmi temple) near Nagpur.   One of my elder sisters lives in Nagpur.  She sends all colours by courier.  One consignment lasts for a year even for me because I use a lot for demonstration through videos on social media. Hibiscus is one of my most favourite flowers after rose and lotus for creating simple rangoli designs .  This 7 to 4 kolam can be drawn for daily purpose or if you are looking for a small rangoli for festivals like Sankranti or Ugadi you can try it also.   An important rangoli tip - try to draw most or all lines at a single stretch. It will make the design more attractive when there are no ...

  This is a huge elephant kolam (excuse the pun !!) with 21 by 1 dots.   One of the favourites for Sankranthi muggulu or Pongal kolam.  It is not very time consuming since the patterns repeat.  Once we know how to draw one of the elephants (of the herd !!) it is easy to draw the other elephants.   The patterns at the centre and those at the dots remaining at the four corners can be drawn according to our wish.   This is also suitable for New Year rangoli design if you are looking for big kolam I presume that someone who comes in search of grand kolam may have a long experience in drawing rangoli the traditional way.  So, the steps are in the reverse order :) I have shown only the white muggu.  We can add colour as we please.  That is the liberty we have in kolam art.  Elephants need not be grey; they can be filled with any bright colour. If you are looking for chukki rangoli big size, big pulli kolam designs with steps or big ...

Sankranthi muggulu | Pongal kolam designs 13 to 7 chukkala rangoli.  We can term this as a medium size rangoli based on the size of the dot grid.  Again, medium is a relative term.  I consider up to 15 dots as medium size dot pattern. Step by step images for this 13 to 7 chukki rangoli   Draw the parrots as shown in the images, after we draw the thoran like patterns the balance dots stand out clearly and make it easy for us to connect them to obtain the chilaka rangoli for Dhanurmasam. Decoration with the remaining dots is left to our imagination Just shading may be sufficient for Dhanurmasam rangoli muggulu, for Bhogi or Pongal we can use colours  This Margazhi muggu is with 15 to 8 dots. Another common rangoli.. This is a popular parrot kolam. There were requests for a video for these designs.  I have shared it on Facebook and YouTube The important factor to be considered is drawing the body of the parrots as perfectly as possible by connecting the dots ...

This collection of kolam designs with dots ( some of them may be already there in various posts in Rangolisansdots ).   Rangolisansdots is a huge collection of hundreds of kolam that if we are looking for a particular kolam or particular genre ( if we can use this word here ) in kolam it is now almost like looking for a needle in a haystack. Medium size birds rangoli with dots , simple and beautiful The dot pattern is 9 dots 5 rows. Then 5 dots 2 rows on either side.  Draw the square pattern at the centre and the birds designs on all four sides  11 to 6 dots birds and rose buds kolam for New Year or Pongal ( Sankranti festival ) This simple kolam has leaves, rose buds and birds all packed in a small 11 to 6 dots grid.  We cannot ask for more for festival decoration that includes New Year and Pongal decoration. I created this kolam , as I do when ever I have free or spare time.  Even without colours as a white kolam or white rangoli , I...