Kolam by Sudha Balaji

Important Rangoli tip Filling  up rangoli with colours of our choice or suitable to the motifs or patterns used.  Filling rangoli with rangoli powder also comes with practice because care should be taken to ensure that the colour of  one pattern or design does not spill into the other.   However, if it happens, it can be corrected.  For example, if we fill a rose with pink colour and we inadvertently spill green meant for the leaves, on the pink petals, that can be corrected by adding pink again over the spilt green colour. Drawing neat and beautiful curved lines makes the rangoli very attractive though it is a very simple rangoli design .  Colourful curved lines parallel to the white design can be drawn to get a colourful design. Or leave it plain and simple. These rangolis can be used as apartment kolams as they are called in Tamil Nadu.  Apartment kolam are s mall rangoli designs drawn at the entrance of apartments due to constraints in space....

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 o...

  As discussed already for  free hand kolam or rangoli sky is the limit for our imagination we can expand the rangoli so long as there is space for drawing the design. I have shared a gallery of 3 small rangoli designs for our daily rangoli.  Though they are small they may be tricky at a couple of places If you are looking for chinna muggulu without dots or without chukki rangoli for your reference to draw quickly  in the morning, this collection of white rangoli may be drawn in a notebook so that you can access it easily without any delay. Note the similarity between the first and second design.  The second design is almost an expansion of the first with few changes. Star and floral patterns at the centre are one of the easiest ways to start drawing a rangoli while leaves, petals are used to expand  Free hand small very easy rangoli Without chukki rangoli ideas through images  very small free hand rangoli  rangoli without chukki , white design b...

A collection of simple muggulu designs on gadapa or side designs for your reference.  What I have shared is what I learnt from my mother.   She insisted on drawing wriggled lines on both sides of the straight lines on the doorstep  If you are searching for a ) gadapa muggulu latest designs or  b) main door gadapa muggulu designs You may find these images useful. We have a tradition of performing Pooja to the doorstep or doorway with flowers, haldi and kumkum   It is believed that Goddess Lakshmi resides there. Any Pooja requires drawing of rangoli designs.  We need suitable rangoli for the space available due to the narrow width. Some draw with chalk or use stickers but I draw the traditional way with white muggu pindi .  This is my preferred method.   Border kolam for steps Border kolam simple for Pooja room Two versions of the floral designs - one lotus and another simple floral petal.  Decorate with kaavi if it is according to y...

  New simple  rangoli making tips for Dhanteras rangoli at home , Bhai Dooj In an earlier post, I shared how to use two different colours on a rangoli stencil to create quick and easy rangoli. I have tried something different here.  Bina dot rangoli patterns plus stencil.  Regimentation suppresses creativity.   It is possible to have more variations also and that will be tried in Rangoli-sans-dots. I think you will agree that we find it very painful to erase a rangoli.  In the image the space at the centre in black is filled with colours, free hand patterns. The colour in the background is obtained by erasing a previous colourful rangoli .  It is a mixture of various colours.   I have used a rangoli stencil on this background and added free hand patterns around the circle.    Only the centre part of a stencil has been used. How to create beautiful rangoli with both techniques i.e using stencil and free hand (without chukki ) d...

How to combine rangoli stencil and free hand rangoli design a unique Diwali decoration ideas "You are awesome.  It is relaxing to watch you run the kolam.  Made 2 of  your small kolam .  Thanks for sharing " This is one of the many comments I receive on my Facebook Page Rangoli sans dots.  I belong to the traditional school  of making rangoli called kolam in Tamil.  Kolam means beauty particularly beauty in symmetry. Drawing traditional kolam  comes with practice particularly the dexterity part. Still I have to share some simple techniques for those who want to try this art for the first time. Hence this post Instead of drawing the designs only with stencils,  after drawing the main design with stencil I have added some patterns  with rangoli powder .  Hope you will find this simple tip interesting and useful and will try it too.  Sprinkle colour rangoli  to one half of the stencil and then white or  any other matchin...

I do not use any aids viz.  drawing the pattern with chalk piece, using scale to get perfect symmetry.  Whatever symmetry I attain is through practice only.    Use the white rangoli for daily purpose.  Traditional kolam art followers emphasise the use of only rice flour to create this art.  For beginners it will be difficult to control rice flour among the fingers due to the texture. It is floury, true to its name and hence will not flow freely.  The lines and patterns will appear discontinuous, and the result may not be appealing if you are trying it for the first time.  People with lots of experience can manage with dry rice flour.   To encourage many more to try this art also because there appears to be some degree of reduction in the number of practitioners who draw daily, particularly in cities, it is preferable to use a mixture of rice flour and white kola podi.  This will ensure that the good qualities of both these ingredien...

A collection of small n easy rangolis for daily use or if you are looking for such type of designs for Diwali or other festival you can bookmark these patterns  I had shared a quick and easy rangoli trick for creating a colourful design with paper cups, thought it  will be very useful for those who want to celebrate Diwali with a unique rangoli but are not familiar with the traditional method  One of the comments for that video really made my day  "Needed this for so long ma'am .... and yes, the rangoli with cups is sure going to make a hero in my new office ... will share something  when I do something, you are teaching ....so proud to see a person at your age so tech savvy and utilising it for something to share knowledge " 1) Easy simple rangoli kolam We should try to maintain the symmetry radially so that the tips of the petals should form an imaginary circle.  If done it will result in an awesome rangoli design for Diwali festival decoration at home....

Two of the constraints that we face at present are time and space. Many live in flats and particularly if the entrances of neighbours  are very close space to draw our daily rangoli becomes a premium.  Similarly, time is also a factor in many homes because both husband and wife are office goers.  So, a few very small rangoli designs in this post for our vasal kolangal. Browse this rangoli website for hundreds or thousands (I have lost count!) of simple to difficult rangoli designs and techniques.  We can have some order for drawing our daily rangoli designs.  For Friday a small padi kolam with kavi . On other days we can draw small rangoli even with 2,3 or four dots with decorations inside and outside  We can also reserve couple of days for free hand kolam .  I do not draw sikku kolam on Fridays and festivals.  I prefer to use only kola podi to create kolam at the entrance.  Somehow it gives me a sense of satisfaction  doing it the tra...