Saturday 28 March 2015

Welcome

​Rangoli, also known as Kolam, is a folk art from India in which patterns are created on the floor in front of the home, in living rooms or at office using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals.

Today, I'm going to draw a Welcome Rangoli. It is to welcome my readers to this new space. I hope you would enjoy reading my blog posts.

Rangoli is simple and easy. I'm going to draw on a white sheet to make things easy to learn.

How to?
1. Keep fourteen dots in a line. Repeat the same process parallel to the previous one.

2. Leave the first and last dot, and keep the remaining dots on both sides.

3. Repeat Step 2 till it becomes two.

4. This way of keeping dots is called as "Straight Dots".

5. Draw welcome by connecting the two lives in the middle.


6. Combine the remaining dots on each side to draw a butterfly as in the image below.


7. You have a beautiful Rangoli now. Say, if your close one is home after a long gap, you could draw this. These butterflies symbolises the colors and happiness they bring to your home.

That's easy, isn't it?


Info: According to our ancestors Rangoli is the easiest way to welcome Lord SUN to our home. It makes the house a sweet, colorful and bright home.

6 comments:

  1. Drawing kolam seemed a tough task until I read this post. This butterfly design looks beautiful :)
    Thanks for step by step description. I will try it soon and send you photo.
    Waiting for more creative mess :D

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    1. That's so sweet of you chotti. You should send me the photo without fail. Will it be good if I post with colors or without colors? Do let me know your thoughts on this.

      Vidhya

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  2. Rangoli is very artistic technique. No scale or or any other material used for help.

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    1. Welcome Abroad!

      It's my pleasure to have you here. Yes, it is very artistic particularly if you can play with colors.

      Cheers,
      Vidhya

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  3. Wish u Happy colorful start with rangoli vidhya.... post with colors to make more attractive

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    1. Sure sister. I will post the same :)

      Cheers,
      Vidhya

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