Kolam by Sudha Balaji

  The first kolam is floral design with pink and blue flowers decorated with a white and green border.   This floral motif is regularly used in rangolis.    If you observe closely, the design formed is  flowers inside a flower.   A very different free hand kolam. The second rangoli - I have drawn only 6 flowers around the 8-petal flower at the centre. because drawing eight flowers radially, one for each petal may make the design congested and cramped or may result very small flowers on the periphery.  I am only thinking aloud, hope you understood. No place for veins of the leaves :) The third rangoli one more design with just petals, using different colours because it is for the muggulu season i.e Dhanrumasa The fourth rangoli - we draw and colour as in the image or we can fill colours in the background, if we have more time at our disposal - on a weekday during Dhanur masam we can draw without colours probably on Saturday or Sunday we can fill w...

For those who have read most posts of  my kolam blog  , you would observe some changes.  Rangolisansdots has become a huge collection of different types of rangoli designs.   So, I am trying to categorise them into various types to make the blog more user friendly.  The idea is that one should find what he/she is looking for.   I am trying to revamp the blog by putting myself in the mind of the user.  I do not know how many designs there are, but when I applied for copyrights for the blog, I found that the copies ran into several hundred pages.   The designs are free for those who use them for their personal use. I was reluctant to apply for copyrights.  I was really not happy when I discovered that many YouTube channels and websites started using my designs.  So this long and strenuous exercise, I had to do - applying to the Registrar of Copyrights.  It was then I discovered that I had shared thousands of designs for...

  The rangoli image below shows how we can use spirals to create small and easy designs .   The image below shows how we can use different motifs to get beautiful rangolis for Navaratri.    I am sharing five of them.  All are unique in their own way.   This is yet another set of chukki less rangoli designs that qualify for all the adjectives like, small, simple and easy.   If you observe all the five examples given here in the form of pictures you will get ideas for starting the central pattern of a non chukki rangoli.   You will also get information on what motifs to add above or around the central design so that you can make and note and try to create designs on your own  with these templates and with your imagination.   You may also bookmark this post if you would like to try the same simple without chukki rangoli designs either for daily purpose or for Dusshera festival as the title suggests.   1) Dasar...

Rangoli designs in this collection, were drawn on a kitchen slab! All are spontaneous creations. Later I started recording them in a notebook for reference not for drawing but for sharing on social media.  Here is a gallery of simple and small muggulu images with colours red, pink, green, yellow and of course white. Before proceeding to 1)  Beautiful Sankranthi muggu lu design My mother-in-law was one of the state toppers in SSLC (it was 11th standard those days, it became 10+2 in 1978, I hope my memory serves me right). Since she was not sent to college, she proceeded to master Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Sanskrit and Carnatic music. She had such a melodious voice.  She sang Marathi and Telugu lullabies for her children and grandchildren.  Since she spent her school holidays with relatives in  Vontimitta.  There she picked up Telugu too. After Pooja, every day I sing the harathi song in Telugu that I learnt from her. I am giving this info here to show...

Collection of top rangoli designs for Diwali Best rangoli design simple 1 - This was quite a popular design when I first started sharing rangolis on social media.  The secret is that as far as possible all lines both straight and curved should be continuous without breaks. Later I converted it into a peacock rangoli using 9 dots. I belong to the old style of kolam school - if you read first few posts, you may realise it.  I was and I wanted to share only safed rangoli designs (as vellai kolamaavu kolam are called in Tamil).  When I realised more and more people came to my blog and to watch my videos on YouTube (initially I posted videos only on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram came much later) I realised that I had to create and share rangoli designs suitable for all types of requirements.  It was not about a personal blog anymore.  So, I started drawing colourful designs too and started saving them on a computer.  Later, I have attempted to categorise them...