Kolam by Sudha Balaji

 First image The rangoli  starts with a plus and expands with semi-circular patterns and petal like designs .  It has a simple two line border filed with blue rangoli powder on which red dots are added.  All the four edges have spiral patterns.   The rangoli is filled with different colours yellow, green and blue. The remaining space that is black can also be filled with some colour of our choice,  only thing it is to be done carefully.  The rangoli with colours filled is available in Dusshera rangoli Second image - This kolam / rangoli  also uses floral petals as motifs.  The basic kolam is drawn with spiral patterns as shown.  The outermost patterns are based on floral petals and are used to decorate the kolam.  Third image - In the rangoli  the central design is drawn by drawing intersecting lines and forming the parallelogram like patterns.  The edge of each one is expanded with floral designs with two petals...

  The first kolam is floral design with 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 S...

 These are basic designs that can be drawn at the entrance for our vasal kolangal hence images showing intermediate steps are not shown  Seven  rangoli ideas are shown here that can be used for 7 days  in 30 days i.e simple kolam for a month. One of the most common kolam in the pic below.  The basic star pattern with petals from all edges.  The 2 lines are drawn separately. How to learn kolam   We can learn this art by referring to books or websites like Rangolisansdots.  Drawing on a note book is easier than drawing with kola podi.  Kolam making the traditional way demands coordination among the fingers and thumb.  Filling the inner spaces with patterns of our choice and also on the outside as demonstrated in the images below The pics show one of the methods of creating a beautiful kolam even with a small design.  1) Small rangoli kolam easy  2) small star kolam   If you would like to try double lines simultaneously...

This is a collection of simple rangoli designs for Aadi masam.   It usually falls between July 15 and August 15.  Auspicious occasions like housewarming, weddings are deferred to Tamil month of Aavani.   So we have discount sales offered by many shops  during this period.  However this month is very special for Devi Karumari Amman.  Sunday and Friday ( Gnayiru and Velli ) are most auspicious for the Goddess during this month as also Aadi Pooram ( Pooram is Poorva Phalguni Star ) .   It is in the afternoons that I find time to create kolam , listening to old Tamil songs ( Ilayaraja, MS Viswanathan ) ,  there are several notebooks full of kolangal.   All do not reach my social media accounts like Blogger, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.  Only some of them that I think are good enough are shared.  Later I review the note books again and share a few more from my collection. Even when I share common kolams ,  part...

A collection of very simple kolam that we can try for Margali masam.  These small kolangal can be drawn as kolams without dots .   Add colour to get awesome designs. While medium size and big rangoli designs are popular during this month.  Occasionally i.e at least a few times in 30 days we may need  small rangoli too . The first three  rangoli designs can be  tried as pulli illatha kolam .  I have shared only the white kolam.   Please add colours .  It is practically difficult to share all kolam with colours.  I will exhaust my stock quickly and will have to trouble my sister to send it from Nagpur :) 1) White rangoli without dots small 2) Without chukki small white rangoli 3) One more small and simple kolam 4) Birds kolam small and simple - white peacocks , may be  Sikku kolam of various sizes are hugely popular during Dhanurmasam aka Margazhi .  Here I share a beautiful chikku kolam t hrough few pics The dot pattern is...

This post will have Diwali rangoli with 6 dots , 8 dots rangoli , 12 dots kolam, 13 dots rangoli and some non-standard dot patterns Lotus kolam with dots for Margazhi or Pongal - also for Diwali.  The lotus rangoli above is with a dot pattern 13 to 1. Draw the simple design at the centre.   Add the four lotuses coloured pink on four sides.   Connect the remaining dots to use them up as shown.  A very beautiful flower rangoli. .  In case you want to draw a single lotus free hand version it is given below .  Two intermediate steps of the lotus rangoli or kolam are shownin the image above.  This lotus design can be drawn for Sankranti muggulu with dots. I  would like to post some simple kolam  with dots ( or simple chukkala muggulu in Telugu )  because I have received  many requests from friends and viewers.  Almost all kolam  I have drawn for Margazhi month are free hand designs.  However I want to limit the...