Kolam by Sudha Balaji

  New simple  rangoli making tips for Dhanteras , 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 ) designs is demo...

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...