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30, Oct 2008

Happy Diwali – Rangoli in 5 Minutes

Recently we celebrated the auspicious festival of Diwali here in India. As a part of it, we also create Rangolis. It was fun creating Rangoli this Diwali. I am attaching few images to show how I managed creating Rangoli quite “quickly” this year.

  1. Took a normal news paper.
  2. Saw the image at http://www.handcarvings.net/ganapati.htm
  3. Hand painted it. (A printout would have helped a lot! May be I ‘d do that next year ) Took around 20 minutes for me. But a print out would have been in few minutes
  4. Cut the design on the News paper
  5. Laid down the news paper.
  6. Took a normal tea filer.
  7. Sprinkled color to the paper.
  8. Lifted the paper.
  9. At few places the Colors got spilled, but used a normal paint brush to push back spilled color to original design.
  10. Rangoli is ready!
Once again, a happy diwali and a happy new year (Vikram Era) to all the readers!