Rangoli for beginners

Traditional kolam designs suitable for beginners. The steps to making these kolams are pretty self explanatory. Start with the dots (if any) and then followed by the lines. Once done, optionally, the enclosed areas of the kolam may be filled with color rangoli powder.

Here are the kolams and rangolis in this page:
  • Navratri kolams
  • Diwali rangoli!
  • Naraka Chaturdashi 2011
  • Lamps Kolam
  • shub laabh !
  • Rangoli
  • Diwali rangoli
  • Diwali Rangoli
  • Freehand kolam
  • Simple Design with Ear Buds
Rangoli: Navratri kolams
This time couldn't draw a different kolam each day in navratri as was busy with my baby n other house work..
Rangoli: Diwali rangoli!
This time I never removed the previous rangoli and kept making new ones resulting into a collection of 3 rangolis on Diwali eve :)
Rangoli: Naraka Chaturdashi 2011
Sanskara Bharthi Rangoli.....did not get any other with area constraint
Rangoli: Lamps Kolam
This is a dotted kolam with dot count 5 to 3 intermediate with 2 and 1 dots on all sides done using photoshop. My experiment continues though I am still not too familiar with many tools on photoshop.
Rangoli: shub laabh !
very simple one ..... done by me on this diwali !
Rangoli: Rangoli
This is a cute small rangoli done by my neighbour's daughter Smeera on seeing us doing rangolis. Her maiden attempt. Your comments please on this.
Rangoli: Diwali rangoli
My daughter aishwarya's(6 years old) rangoli on diwali
Rangoli: Diwali Rangoli
Dear Friends, Eventhough this is a very simple rangoli, i want to share it with you all... My maiden attempt in different type ...
Rangoli: Freehand kolam
This is my attempt on the day of Ugadi. Please give any suggestions for further improvement. Ur views pls.
Rangoli: Simple Design with Ear Buds
1.Draw a simple design on Thermacol with Pencil. 2.Cut the Buds according to the required size. 3.Paste it on. (Use different colours of buds.And also use some decorative things.)

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