Sikku kolam - 66

This is the highest dot count I have ever tried. I always have an hesitation to try bigger ones as it needs lots of practice to place the dots in a perfect line and of course stamina right from start to end. Indeed a good exercise to start the day, but wasn't so easy for someone who draws kolam only during the India visit. Still managed to finish off the kolam...

A 29 dots kolam, which is the first time I had tried. The maximum dot count should be not more than 21. The big space at my in-laws enthralled me to try my debut big sikku kolam aka the gargantuan kolam for me. I needed to practice on paper as I didn't want to create a mess on the floor, as erasing and again starting from placing of dots wasn't imaginable to me. Placing of dots took much time for me. It's an easy 7 dot clubbed to form a big sikku kolam. Placing of dots for a big kolam needs perfection, if a misalignment happened then the whole display may look awkward. As I was drawing kolams for a week, I acquired the steady hand and didn't have the starting problem. I was acquainted with the rangoli powder and was used to its texture. I didn't add rice flour as it was out of stock. My mother set everything ready by refilling the kolapodi container premixed with rice flour before I land at my parents' home. This is 29 dots kolam placed in 5 columns reduced by 8 dots and 21 dots in four columns placed leaving 4 dots on the either sides. Again the same dot count is decreased till it reached 5 dots. The dot count is as follows 21x5, 21x4, 13x4, 5x4. After drawing the kolam I just enclosed the kolam by a single line and didn't think much about the enhancing factor. It took more than an hour. I was half way exhausted while finishing. And the other reason was that there were no colours, the leftover colours used by my SIL for pongal. I was forced to use Red and Beige which were in small quantity. The beige colour more or less looked like pale white and in picture it looked like sparkling white. I took this photo from the first floor to get a birds view. I was much satisfied for the symmetry wise as the dots were placed in a right lines.