Motifs : Day#28/30

I dragged PP to a संस्कार भारती (sanskaar bharati) rangoli basic workshop, organized by मराठी संस्कृतिक मंडळ, IITB this weekend.

And PP being the sweetheart that she is, came along even though she had done the workshop last year :P

Credit for all the pics goes to her and her HTC ;-)

I wanted to write a post on "motifs", but am too tired to write a long drawn post, especially after an afternoon spent standing and sweltering in the heat of StaffC. 

Post takeaway :  A fixed number of "standard" motifs can give you unique awesome designs if you combine them correctly! ;-)

The teacher taught us basic five motifs that make up the main components of a संस्कार भारती rangoli : बिंदू (dots), vertical and horizontal रेषा (lines), केन्द्रवर्धिनी (we called it jalebi since its easier to remember) and गोपद्म (the heart-like symbol, traditionally used to represent a cow's hoofs). He drew these :

5 basic motifs

These were the first dots I made, so haphazard that PP decided they were 'pic-worthy' ;-)

Dots 101

Practice made us a lot better :

Practice! :)

Ganpati

Some pattern

And we graduated to "inventing" bigger and better designs :

butterfly

peacock

Another pattern me and PP made : 

SquareD :)

This was the rangoli made by all the participants (with groups of 6 completing each motif) Hardly took ~15 mins to complete!! B-)

Overall, two weekend afternoons well spent :)