Friday-Free Patterns

Elaine thank you so much for your comments. I am glad that you follow my blog and I am glad to know that you enjoy my posts. My thanks to all my friends who follow my posts and also leave comments and suggestions . Your comments motivate me to post more and more.

On Elaine's request I am posting the examples of these motifs (I have so far shared with you) used as designs. Well these have been painted on my sari. These are paintings on fabric as folk/tribal art.  I have a cotton sari cream white in colour which has got these motifs al lover it. 

It looks like these motifs have been first block printed (outline) and then when they have dried out the inner part is filled by using  block printed with required colour. Why I say filled by block print is that if you see it closely, some of the filling has gone askew or come out of the outlines. May be some of the motifs have been filled in using brush. The paint used is fabric paint .

Hope it is clear now Elaine. I like your suggestion. Next time I post motifs, I will also post these used in a design.

Rangoli-75

Here is one more simple rangoli. Easy to draw.

17 to 1 straight dots, placed one below the other as shown below:

This is only for guidance. You have to place 17 dots till you reach one and join as shown above and colour.
Hope you like it. Keep a watch more to come.

Rangoli-74

Peacocks Rangoli

I have already said in one of my posts that for Rangoli designs birds and animals along with flowers are the subjects. Peacocks are perhaps the most popular theme for Rangolis. Swans, parrots and parrots occupy the next place. Peacocks are the most beautiful birds just to be seen to be believed. So colourful  so no wonder they are most popular with artists who paint or who create Rangolis.


Here is the design on Peacocks as chief theme.

These are peacocks, Lotuses, butterflies and flowers with six pointed star in the centre.


For this,  21 to 11 dots are placed as follows:

Center Row 21 dots, 

Next Row  20 dots -place in center point of dots of above row 

and so on 

till the final row is 11 dots

See how they are placed.

Join the dots to get the design as shown above.


Hope you like this. This is a bit complicated, so needs a lot of practice. More such to come...


Keep a watch on my blog....