Kolam by Sudha Balaji

While rangoli themselves are beautiful, when  drawn with parallel lines are even more beautiful.   Drawing the rangoli lines in parallel - simultaneously can be used for smaller and bigger designs.  You may have observed  that drawing  2 stroke designs  is my weakness :) :) I just love to draw them . For this technique the trick is to take    rangoli powder is taken between the index and middle fingers.  Using the thumb, the index and middle fingers allow the rangoli powder to flow between the middle and index fingers ( one line ) and on the outside of the thumb ( second parallel line ) .    The distance between the middle and index fingers depends upon how comfortable we are in drawing  When we use two diferent colours instead of while , the result is a rangoli with parallel lines of two different colours.   If drawing parallel lines in rangoli is  difficult, drawing two different colours is  more diff...

Double stroke or parallel line kolam are a beautiful variety of kolam  ( kolam itself means beauty ) that can be tried for a different type of New Year kolam The rangoli below the first in this series of parallel lines has a design with many curved arms terminating in simple motifs.   The circumference of the rangoli has simple designs that represent birds!.  Drawing birds can be made so simple.  Since this post is devoted only for plain rangolis colours have not been used on any of the designs. These double like kolam designs either with white lines and colours filled inside or drawn with colour kolapodi can be drawn for occasions like weddings, festivals like Navratri, Diwali or Varlakshmi Vratham. The second design is also one that I will use quite often in the early stages of Rangoli-sans-dots.  It has a floral design evolved from a central pattern expanded with petals.  The design is completed with semicircular petals decorated with spiral designs al...