Awesome stencil rangoli ideas for Diwali
How to combine rangoli stencil and free hand rangoli design a unique Diwali decoration ideas
"You are awesome. It is relaxing to watch you run the kolam. Made 2 of your small kolam. Thanks for sharing "
This is one of the many comments I receive on my Facebook Page Rangoli sans dots. I belong to the traditional school
of making rangoli called kolam in Tamil. Kolam means beauty particularly beauty in symmetry. Drawing traditional kolam
comes with practice particularly the dexterity part.
Still I have to share some simple techniques for those who want to try this art for the first time. Hence this post
Instead of drawing the designs only with stencils, after drawing the main design with stencil I have added some patterns
with rangoli powder . Hope you will find this simple tip interesting and useful and will try it too.
Sprinkle colour rangoli to one half of the stencil and then white or any other matching colour to the other half.
It can be done horizontally or vertically.
The result, the rangoli in the photo or pic below
As usual, light diyas around the rangoli , it is the festival of lights. Free hand patterns should also match the rangoli stencil at the centre.
Using the same trick and tips for making an easy rangoli one more design in the image below
