Kolam by Sudha Balaji

  Rangoli sans dots as the name suggests is all about rangoli without dots.  Some of the designs created by me few years back are shared here.   Free hand designs test our imagination. While white kolam can be drawn for daily purpose rangoli, we can draw the colourful ones for festivals like New Year . If you are looking for simple rangoli designs without colours for beginners that are new too these rangolis  may be the ones you are looking for.  Obviously most. kolam drawn by me are new particularly without chukki type  because they are all created by me. Some of them spontaneously others are recorded in many notebooks.  " Every time you come up with something new and different "  This is sample feedback from one of my social media accounts.  The reason is I spend my afternoons practising, creating. Addition of colours have been shown in the images below.  The background has not been filled.  If time permits choose a suitable...

 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 notebook 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 the smalles...

I f some said beautiful rangoli can be drawn with big dot grids only, these two designs may prove them wrong.  Though I repeated many times, I would like to reiterate that in these days finding time for drawing rangoli at the entrance daily in the morning has become a premium. Naturally we look for small and quick kolams for our daily kolangal.  Add the factor of space, flats offer very little space for drawing kolam.  Compare it with our house in a small town where we grew up, we had the entire courtyard at our disposal, so sometimes even our daily designs would be as big as Margazhi kolam. The chikka rangoli galu  below use 2 by 2 dot patterns Chikka rangoli with 2 chukki Sanna chukki rangoli with 2 dots  Small is beautiful  Kanchi Mahaperiyava once said the word Jagatguru means Jagat Guru - the world is your teacher.  I learnt a lot of free hand rangoli designs ideas from my mother.  This started at a very young age, and this may be one of th...