Holi is the next important festival ( or event or celebration ) in March. Celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalghuna (February - March in the English calender ). One of the most joyous festivals celebrated in India, it is associated with colours - spraying of colours as powder, mixed with water.
Rangoli-sans-dots is also about colours through rangoli. So a few rangoli designs for Holi of 2014.
The rangoli for Holi, a free hand design ( however the central floral pattern can be drawn with dots - the dot pattern would be 7 to 4 ). Add floral and other motifs around the flower at the centre. Add border designs congruous with the rangoli on all four corners. Fill as many colours you would want to ( after all it is for Holi the festival of colours ).
![Rangoli-design-Holi-1.jpg]( "free hand design with colours")
The image shows the close up of the corner rangoli or border design that is part of the complete rangoli design. It is quite a simple border.
![rangoli-design-Holi-2.jpg]( "corner rangoli design for Holi")
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![Rangoli-design-Holi-4.jpg]( "parallel lines rangoli for Holi")
![rangoli-design-Holi-6.jpg]( "colourful rangoli for festivals like Holi and Diwali")
Rangoli-sans-dots is also about colours through rangoli. So a few rangoli designs for Holi of 2014.
The rangoli for Holi, a free hand design ( however the central floral pattern can be drawn with dots - the dot pattern would be 7 to 4 ). Add floral and other motifs around the flower at the centre. Add border designs congruous with the rangoli on all four corners. Fill as many colours you would want to ( after all it is for Holi the festival of colours ).
The image shows the close up of the corner rangoli or border design that is part of the complete rangoli design. It is quite a simple border.
This image below shows the close up of the central rangoli design so as to give a better idea of the rangoli design. It is quite a simple design that can be drawn by an individual without support. Only filling colours may take some time. I try to keep the designs as simple as possible. In case you want to try the central floral design a similar design in available with a couple of steps in floral designs
It has been quite some time since I last shared a parallel lines rangoli design ( I have been attempting them with different colours and not in white ). Hence I thought Holi would be an apt festival for sharing my
thoughts through some parallel line rangoli design also because they have become popular in (through ) Rangoli-sans-dots. This is again a simple design with a star pattern at the centre that evolves into a beautiful rangoli bordered with patterns around it all with parallel lines. As usual fill colours. We can also try to draw this on a carpet of rangoli powder so that the empty spaces in between are not visible ( like Sanskar Bharathi designs ). Then we may have to choose the colour combination to match with the rangoli carpet in the background. There are quite a few white parallel lines rangoli in Rangoli designs-lines and few colourful rangoli designs in Dasara rangoli designs
This rangoli design below is the next one in this series for Holi festival. The central pattern, I have added a different colour for each arm. Add floral designs on the border. The remaining space is filled a colour of our choice with some plain designs. The result a very colourful and beautiful rangoli design for Holi ( for rangoli related festivals like Diwali )
