Sikku Kolam - 62

This kolam goes into my "One of my Favourite kolams" list. I have used wet rice flour for drawing and added colours for enhancement.

I need to elaborate the colours used in this kolam. Before to that, this kolam is always a saver when I go blank at the time of drawing kolam on the entrance. This kolam is well etched in memory as I have seen this kolam drawn by my mother frequently in childhood days. The centre design can be drawn as an individual kolam with a dot count of 4x4. All the colours used are self made which are safe to use and adhere to the code. The outer bright orange colour used is food colour mixed with wet rice paste. Then dry powders again from the kitchen. The colours were mixed with rice flour. Turmeric for yellow, the pale brown from Nescafe Gold and Nescafe Arabica for the deep shade of brown. Hope this kolams isn't caffeine overdosed.

The rice paste used in this kolam is the ready made rice flour, the texture is as fine as corn flour. The locals use this rice flour for local delicacy. I had the problem with the consistency as the flour was too fine couldn't control the flow of the strokes. I needed to go for a trial and error method to achieve the required consistency. But I needed to add water constantly for the perfect ratio.

Dot count: Place 8 dots in two coloums and decrease the dot count by two leaving two dots at the edges to 2 dots.