Dotted kolam (7-3) dots

Dotted kolam (7-3)dots

Good Evening!

Maakolam with 7-3 dots with Swastika design with deepam design on four sides.

Padikolam

Padikolam 

Good Morning!

This padikolam was drawn for Vinayaka chathurthi. 

Freehand Rangoli

Freehand Rangoli 

Happy Mahashivratri to all!

Wet rice flour/ Maakolam with freehand design drawn by me for Mahashivratri Bhajans. 

Design inspired 

by Hema Kannan (lotus shakthi)

Maakolam (Ratha Saptami)

Maakolam (Ratha Saptami)

Good Morning!

Maakolam/ wet rice flour kolam for Ratha Saptami.

Ratha Saptami festival is celebrated on the shukla saptami of lunar month, Magha.  The seventh day is the time when the Sun starts gaining momentum in the zodiac after the culmination into Capricorn. This Northernly movement, Uttarayana, is “brahma mārga”--the direction towards the Divine.  It is said that we should pull the ratha,  which is our “mind”, to follow the brahma marga. Let Diwakara imbue us with gnaana & launch us towards the divine.

Padikolam (wet rice flour kolam)

Padikolam (wet rice flour kolam)

Good Evening!

Traditional Maakolam (wet rice flour kolam) with Padikolam design.

Padikolam

Padikolam (Maakolam design)

Good morning!

Traditional wet rice flour kolam/ Maakolam with Padikolam design for Thai velli. 

Rangoli

Rangoli 

Good morning!

A freehand wet rice flour kolam/ Maa kolam drawn in vasapadi / entrance of the house. A simple border on vasapadi. 

Freehand Rangoli (Maakolam)

Freehand Rangoli (Wet rice flour)

Good evening!

Wet rice flour/ maakolam with Freehand Rangoli decorated with diyas.

Maakolam

Maakolam

Happy Karthigai Deepam to all!

Maakolam

Maakolam 

Good Afternoon!

Freehand wet rice flour kolam drawn by me at Tulsi Maadam.

Maakolam (wet rice flour rangoli)

Freehand Rangoli 

Maakolam/ wet rice flour kolam 

Maakolam

Maakolam (Deepawalli special)

Happy Deepawalli to all!

A wet rice flour kolam drawn by me for Akhanda Bhajan. A special deepam design with Madhubani intricate patterns. 

Sikkukolam(2×2dots)

Sikkukolam (2×2dots)

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A traditional Maakolam with 2×2 dots sikkukolam with Brahmamudi single string.

Maakolam (sikkukolam design)

Maakolam (sikkukolam)

Good morning 

A maakolam/ wet rice flour kolam with 7×1, 5×1, 3×1 dots to make a Brahmamudi single string kolam.

Happy Raksha Bandhan, Avani Avittam and also Pournami (full moon day).

Fusion kolam (Padikolam + Sikkukolam)

Fusion kolam (Brahmamudi + Padikolam)

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A fusion kolam with padikolam drawn with wet rice flour and sikkukolam with 5×5 dots in the center(Brahmamudi kolam). Maakolam drawn for Aadi velli.

The center portion of Maakolam with 5×5 dots.

Fusion kolam (padikolam + Brahmamudi)

Fusion (Padikolam + Brahmamudi kolam)

Happy Aadi Peruku to all!

Traditional padikolam with a Brahmamudi kolam with wet rice flour.

A simple 4×4 dots Brahmamudi kolam in the center of the Maakolam.

Fusion kolam (Padi+Sikkukolam)

Fusion (Padikolam + Sikkukolam)

Good morning 

Today is Aadi velli...an auspicious day for Devi Maa. A traditional Padikolam with wet rice flour/ maakolam. In the center it's a Brahmamudi kolam with 4×4 dots. This is also a Prathibimba Brahmamudi Kolam.

Padikolam

Padikolam / Maakolam 

Padikolam drawn with wet rice flour. With same dot pattern from my previous post. 7×7, 2-1. 

Pencil sketch 

Padikolam

Padikolam 

Happy Karadayar Nombu to all! 

A wet rice flour kolam with traditional padi kolam design with a touch of kaavi/ kempe powder.

Padi Kolam

Padi Kolam

Happy Tamil New Year to all!

A wet rice flour kolam/ Maa kolam for Tamil puthandu.