A small paisley design. Started with a swasthik but ended to a different design. I will upload the stages of this rangoli later as my editing software is down. At times we start to work on a design, but ends up into unexpected display. This is one such rangoli 🙂
After drawing a swasthik, tried to add some lines, but that turned out to be a paisley without my knowledge 🙂
I was taken along with flower of the design. After paisleys bloomed next drew a boundary, so that there was no room to escape 😀 If a paisley found its place in the rangoli, then the entire family adorns the rangoli. In the next layer the small paisleys took their place and again enclosed with a minaret shape.
This is the history of the basic design. I loved the original version outlined in white rangoli powder, but felt I should use the colour powders to clear the stock, as I have a fresh colours waiting for me in Chennai. My friend has taken the pain to purchase colour powders and nylon rangoli powder – its a white rangoli powder, all the way from Bangalore. In my next visit need to stuff into my personal baggage. I am not sure how much could I pack, Still need to look out for a special offer in the baggage with the airlines while travelling… Hope it may sound funny to many, but to me it sounds perfect 😀 The different colours and its shades really make me re-energise to move forward and continue my passion of drawing kolams. If I had drawn the same designs on canvas, then many would have applauded, but kolams are pro tem, that may be the reason many look down as a waste of time.
Thanks to the technology as we are in an era of digitalising our work. 15 years ago photographing a kolam seemed insane 😀 Now there is no such fuss about taking photographs 🙂
While selecting colours, I was tempted to use purple shades, but as I have desisted not to use purple shades in near future moved on to pink… But gave a purple outline to the inner minarets as I felt pink and purple have good affinity between each other 😀 I used greenyellow shade of green for the paisleys to give a tender leaves effect, highlighted with dark green shade. And used blue shade to the outer minarets. It looked like a marine Blue, but it had a different effect through the lens. But still it looked good to my eyes 🙂
