Ratha Saptami Rangoli

ರಥ ಸಪ್ತಮಿಯಾ ಮರುದಿನ ಮುಂಜಾನೆ ಹಾಲು ತರೋಕ್ಕೆ ನಡೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುವಾಗ ಒಬ್ಬರ ಮನೆಯ ಬಾಗಿಲ ಮುಂದೆ ಈ ರಂಗೋಲಿಯನ್ನು ಕಂಡಿದ್ದು. ಎಷ್ಟು ಸುಂದರವಾಗಿ ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನ ಬಿಡಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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Deepawali Rangoli

Deepawali at office was different this year; the team made a colorful freehand floral Rangoli.

A part of the team is drawing the core, in the background another part of the team is mixing rangoli powder and colors.

Outer section being drawn around the core. Lines were drawn, erased and redrawn, over and again to get the right shapes.

Initial stages of color filling.

Coloring was done with lot of care, no such thing called 'undo' in this work.

Even a tea-strainer was used for sieving colored powder :)

Outlines around the colored sections.

Oil lamps join the Rangoli. Part of the team creating Kannada text "Deepawali Subhashayagalu"

The five-flame Deepa at the center.

Aaro Dalada Rangoli

Mean time, another team had drawn Rangoli at the entrance and also the stairway to ground floor.

That's our team!

Shivana-Butti creates it's own shadow rangoli.

Good team work!! A memorable Deepawali.

Here's the link to the video- Deepawali Rangoli.

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