Kolam by Sudha Balaji

kodu potta kolam  This is a simple design I have tried with colourful lines based on a request from a viewer on YouTube.   She regularly gives her feedback on my videos.   She wanted some colourful designs with lines.  Traditionally as we may be aware these kolams are drawn with white lines only.  Many viewers on YouTube ask me how I create designs.  Usually after dinner, when I have spare time   I sit down with a notebook and pen or pencil and try various patterns and some of them come out as videos.  There are still many that are yet to be converted into a video.   After dinner is the time for creating kolam or for stringing flowers for the next day Pujan listening to devotional songs.   We can draw directly with rangoli colours provided the quality is good, it should not be floury i.e should not be sticky The traditional rangoli with lines called padi kolam in Tamil or geethala muggulu in Telugu is also called ko...

A step by step guide for drawing a traditional kolam designs through pictures While we can have free hand designs or designs with dots for festival decoration of our homes and  there are many in Rangolisansdots belonging to those categories , this post will delve upon only the old kolam designs that are popular and beautiful in their own way.    They can actually be challenging too , occasionally.    It is still early days in Rangolisansdots and so dots rangoli designs can wait ,  we can have exclusive posts based on number of dots , themes like birds , flowers and so on. Without chukki New year rangoli in progress , steps through images  Old type kolangal are beautiful in their own way  The step by step procedure through the images above should make it simple.  Instead of a square base , we start with a hexagon so it may not be a classical padi kolam if we strictly go by definitions. After drawing a hexagon draw ...