Colourful rangoli designs collection for special occasions

After rangolis for Margazhi kolam collection and New Year and Pongal kolam. I have posted some simple kolam with dots. I will update with some more rangolis as and  when time permits.  ( Home-makers are also equally busy!!!).  I will devote this post to free hand rangolis .  As we all  know,  sky is  the limit for drawing free hand rangolis, we can keep expanding them if we did not have constraints of time and space and  of course patience.  I  will  try to post  a few  with videos for those who may be interested in knowing  or viewing  the method of drawing these rangolis.

The rangoli shown (below) with flower buds, I had actually drawn for Margazhi, but then I thought a dozen free hand rangolis would suffice for Margazhi and hence did not post this.  I completely forgot about till I discovered it by chance in my files.  So here it is. Isn't it a rangoli for a special occasion? Another rangoli with purple rose buds (!) is in the post Diwali free hand rangoli with rose buds.




The next one two freehand rangoli  - somewhat colourful like the colours of Holi!

The video for the rangoli, shown above. As usual draw the central floral pattern and expand along the edges with designs of your choice to get the final image.  The video below shows the rangoli at the plain stage.  The image above after it is filled with colours, for festivals of joy like Holi, Navaratri and  Diwali




The video of the rangoli, above



A similar rangoli has already been posted earlier in a post on simple free hand kolam, only I have added a video, now. A central square is decorated with spiral patterns on all four sides with number of spiral designs decreasing to one.  Then fill the central square with colours and add a rangoli border to the design.  The rangoli centre can be decorated with free hand designs as shown.


Now for some simple rangoli designs and how to draw some of them.  The one below has four parallelogram like designs and edges are decorated with diyas and other motifs.  The gaps between are filled with designs of our choice.


The video below for the rangoli above!







The video shows the central square pattern drawn first and obviously, decorate the four sides of the squares with designs of our choice.  Then the gaps are filled with plain floral patterns.  Simple but attractive.


For simplest  free hand rangoli designs please go to simple rangoli -free hand designs