Kolam by Sudha Balaji

Pinnal kolam images for Margazhi | Pongal  First kolam  with 7 to 1 dots This kolam is quite small and easy and in a couple of steps in the images below This is a beautiful kolam that can be drawn with 5,7,9,11 dots etc.  The bigger the dot pattern the concentration required is more. Here the dot pattern is 5 dots - 3 rows, 4,3,2,1 If rangoli colours are of good quality ( should not be floury ) we can draw the lines directly , to try something unique This kolam has a combination of two fractals.  In the first image we can see the first fractal being used.  The dot pattern is 9 to 1 I get my rangoli colours from Koradi near Nagpur.  Another beautiful kolam . A non standard dot grid is used .  The dot pattern is 9 dots 4 rows then 4 dots - 2 rows then 2 dots one row Add colours and free hand patterns to enhance the beauty This is not a classical pinnal kolam,  a design I created .  The principle is the same,...

7 to 4 dots rangoli kolam for daily purpose  T his collection of pulli kolam simple,  one more set of simple kolam designs for your reference.  I have sharing hundreds of designs to facilitate drawing kolam daily early in the morning. Every day for many of us drawing kolam is like performing Pooja.  When we bend down to create one for the day sometimes, we may not be able create instantaneously due to other distractions or duties but are not willing to settle for some random design that may occur in our minds.  Hence, I am sharing lots of designs so as to make creating simple kolam art easy. Most of them are created by me except common kolam. Steps for this simple birds kolam with dots  The result is a simple and beautiful kolam .  We can also draw it for Navarathri golu , Deepavali or New Year. 7-4 dots vilakku kolam   for entrance of house For those who are looking for deepa chukki rangoli here are the steps for an easy patter...

Small easy padi kolam R elatively small kolam become awesome with addition of so many motifs, fractals, dots make it appear grand. Try for any day of Dussehra or for Vijaya Dasami , this design may symbolically represent victory also.    A simple and cute padi kolam I drew for Varalakshmi Vratham 2020.  If you need to know the steps for this design, go to  t his video link   to watch it on YouTube Many of my rangoli designs have influence of free hand patterns.  After all I learnt from my mother who was an expert in without chukki rangoli designs.   She drew hundreds of muggulu designs on the mud floor as her canvas. Simple small padi kolam  Padi kolam with lotus patterns makes it suitable to be drawn as a Friday rangoli because   Lotus is associated with Goddess Lakshmi  Cute padi kolam One more simple and small design with lotus patterns, again the lotus patterns make it suitable for Vellikizhamai or Navrat...

Margali kolam | Pongal kolangal | Sankranthi muggulu 2020 This is a unique type of chikku kolam .  Here we use a single line that goes around the dot grid and gets connected to where it started and hence the name.  Just by looking at a completed design it may be difficult to decipher the puzzle that it appears and probably one of the reasons why it is called so.  As is the norm in this blog, I have given few images to show the intermediate steps to make it easy to understand and learn.  I have used a 11 by 1 dot grid.  This kolam can be drawn with 9, 7 dots and bigger dot patterns also. Step by step pictures are shown to make easy to follow  For your weekday ( Monday to Thrusday ) or weekend kolam ideas Thin long lines should be drawn at a single stretch  It comes with practice  Try for Dhanuramasam rangoli for one of the 30 days  You may also use for sikku kolam with 11 dots or melikala muggulu with 11 dots for Bhogi a...

Peacock kolangal with dots  Among the birds peacocks are one of the most fascinating , naturally we try to incorporate these designs in our rangolis.  Since rangoli is a very simple daily art , what we draw will not have the intricate and finer details of other forms of art.   So what we do it draw the crown for the peacocks and decorate the tail.  This is a white rangoli and hence cane be thought of to represent the beautiful white peacock.  We can also fill the kolam with colours for festivals like Diwali, Pongal, Navartri or draw a white kolam for our daily vasal kolangal navilu rangoli , 9 chukki rangoli design step by step  Also a traditional mor rangoli with dots  At one or two places it can get tricky , so I have added many steps  I have shown only the white kolam , if you want to retain it as a white peacock , shading and decorations with motifs are sufficient. If you would like to display a proud peacock with colou...

Tuesday kolangal | Karthigai rangoli | Bhogi rangolis One of the commonly used and most favourite designs are the peacock rangoli for Diwali. It is a ubiquitous design.  We say as proud as a peacock, we are proud of a peacock rangoli we create for festivals including for Dhanteras rangoli attractive, I have used colour rangoli powder directly instead of drawing with white and filling with colours.  For this the quality of colour kola podi should be good.   I get it from Nagpur; there we get very good quality rangoli colours. if you want parrot kolam with dots for New Year  Such beautiful and intricate kolams can be drawn for Karthigai festival or vratham because mayil is considered as vahanam of Murugan. Dot pattern used is 9 to 1   We can also draw for Bhogi, Mattu Pongal and Kanum Pongal when medium sized rangoli designs are displayed.   If you are confident with the quality of colours you can draw directly with colours, it saves...