Beautiful and brightly colored rangoli! The basic pattern is very nice, and the shaded-coloring adds to its beauty.
(On a separate note, could you please take a minute to respond to my email? Thank you :))
Very beautifully executed. Looks like a quilt to me. The fine shades of colour the design has gives it the look of a painting. One little thing, for those blue cubes, a white line could have been drawn to give them a three dimensional look. By chance it happened for those in the east and west (due to the tiling of the floor). Very good work.
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Hello friends, my heart felt thanks to all of you for having voted and for passing nice comments.
I never thought my rangoli will get this much appreciation from all of you. Infact this was done during Deepavli celebration in our community hall byme. I got a prize also.Since i came to know about the competetion at the last minute I had no time to think of a new design.Just put one of my earlier kolam .Luckily I had the color powders my son got it from US as gift for me. So put this rangoli in about 45 minutes. And sent the photo for ikolam contest also.Photograpy and the cropping (taught by my sisterinlaw Jayanthy) helped me in presenting it nicely.
So once again thanks for all you.
rajamma
45 minutes! सचà¥à¤šà¥€ ? आप कहतीं हैं तो मान लेती हूà¤| :) आप तो कोलम मामी नहीं, कोलम की मालकिन (கோலம௠அரசி ) जो हैं! :) Your rangoli was one among the top five, congratulations! :)
Your rangoli's basic pattern, your drawing style, your color scheme, your coloring style and your way of presenting it here for the contest, are all very very beautiful Kolam Mami!! So, tell me something; which shop did Mr.Madan (did I get the name right) get the rangoli powder from? I had searched high and low in many shops in our city (including the Indian stores), and I have not seen what I see in this image. :)
What we get here in the regular craft stores, is colored sand, which is coarser, and not easy to draw with (atleast not for drawing kolam lines, may be fit for using as a filler by pouring). So pleeeaseeeee, enlighten us Kolam Mami! :)
Lata, Thanks a lot for your appreciation.( which alone made ordinary kolam Payithyam like me to reach this level)Its only the enthusiasm to participate that gives the enrgy.
Regarding the color powder used, my son Madhav and daughter inlaw Swapna say that they bought it from a shop called Hobby ideas( it is there in all places).Any Hobby shops you will get it.. Its called Art colour sand.
Yes Lata, drawing lines is very difficult and while filling on a smooth surface it spreads unevenly.But I used it in the competition, (since they look bright and I had no time to prepare the ordinary color podi mixing with white rangoli powder.)Last year Diwali colmpetition also I used this only.Since the filling takes longer time I adopted this way of drawing lines for filling , though I drew thin lines it spread insuch a way giving a shaded effect.
Basically I like 2 or 3 colors only to be used for rangoli, but for a contest I realised more bright contrast colors attracts the attention of all.
Then last reguest, donot call me mami.( when I got married and entered my sasurall all my sister inlaws's children ..a dozen..in number and half of them of my age, started calling me MAAMI, till then I was only a chithi in my mother's place.Inspite of my protest they call me only Maami). But I like to be called Paatti.Both Sahana and Sashank call me Paatti and little Neel call me 'Rrrraaajam' . So simple "rajam' is enough. Ok !
rajamma
Sure, आप कहतीं हैं तो मान लेती हूà¤| :)
Convey my thanks to Mr.Madhav for the tip about the shops. I think I have a few of those sand-bottles in my kitty, but hoping to come across one with a more finer texture. :)
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