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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Rangoli with GIMP

Y-Knot on her blog Y-Knot Blog has experimented with Rangoli designs using GIMP. They are so beautiful. She started with those Rangolis which are drwan using lines. Now she has started with those using dots. 

They are so beautiful. Alas I don't know how to work with GIMP. I am tempted to learn it because I feel one can create so many new designs out of one design by using this method. For now I don't have that much time to learn. But after looking at her creations, I am tempted to learn it.

She has done a great job. I am just amazed at her creativity. the designs look very different too. But I feel some of them are very difficult to actually draw with hand. 

Any way just follow the link and see the beauty of her creations, how she has played with them. I was very much tempted to post some of her photos but I could not wait till I took her permission...I was dying to write about her creations...So here is the link.



Thanks a lot Y-Knot. They are just very beautiful creations. You are one talented person. I will try to keep on posting some different designs so that you can experiment with them. I loved going through your designs.


2 comments:

  1. Y-KnotJanuary 24, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    Hello Sailaja,
    Thanks for the referral! If you ever do have the time to learn GIMP Sharon Boggons teaches it online, which is how I learned it. There is a new class just starting (see her pintangle.com website). The rangoli are a challenge for me: what can be easy to do by hand can be very difficult to reproduce graphically, at least if you are depending upon graphics tools that make squares, circles, straight lines. It makes me have to think a lot about how each pattern can be made. So each time I make one, I not only learn about the rangoli pattern itself, I learn a little bit more about how to design with GIMP. If you keep drawing them, I will keep trying them! :-)

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  2. Ms SharmaJanuary 24, 2011 at 9:48 PM

    Thanks a lot dear for the info. Yes it is very difficult to draw figures on computers. I tried once and gave up.

    I love to draw on paper as I keep a sketch pad and pencil with me and keep on doodling when I get time.

    With the same set of dots or just by making little changes, I try to create more and more designs.

    Sure I will be posting more and more designs. I like the way you experiment with them...I am looking forward to our Jugalbandi(duet) :) :) :)

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