Friday 11 November 2016

Rama Avatar



Rama Avatar
                The seventh Avatar in the Dashavatar series is the Rama Avatar. In this Avatar , Lord Vishnu takes the form of Sri Rama ( ideal man ), the eldest son of King Dasharatha and queen Kausalya. Sri Rama is one of the most popular incarnations of Lord Vishnu. The well known Ramayana is the immortal epic which depicts the life of Sri Rama.

In this post , I am showing how to make this quilling doll.

Face ( Step 1 to Step 3 ):
  • I have used 5 mm quilling strips. For the front part of the face I have used 5 strips of blue color. 
  • Attach 5 quilling strips and make a tight coil. Slightly make a cone. 
  • For the back part of the face I have used black color . Make a tight coil using 5 strips. Make hairs by cutting small black color paper strips and stick it to the back of the head.
  • Attach these two parts and complete the face by drawing the eyes , nose and mouth.
 

Neck ( Step 4 ) :

 For the neck , I have used 5 mm blue color quilling strip. Make a tight coil using 4 quilling strips. 


 Body ( Step 5 - 6 ) :

   For this I have used 10 mm quilling strips.  Make a a tight coil using 5 quilling strips of blue color. Make three such coils. Attach the one above the other. Attach the neck to the body.

Legs and Hands ( Step 7 ):

For making the dhoti , legs , feet and hands please refer to the earlier dashavatar posts .         ( Click here ). You can also wrap a blue crepe paper around the  dhoti to make it more elegant.     

Step 7

  Complete Body ( Step 8 ):

Attach the head , body and legs together . This is shown in Step 8.

Step 8
 
Crown ( Step 9 ) :

Use 5 mm gold color quilling strip for the crown. Decorate the crown with kundans.

 Bow and Arrow :

For the bow take a small straw and bend it a little. Wrap brown color Kg cardboard around it. Tie a small thread. The bow is ready.
For the arrow take  a small agarbatti stick and wrap golden paper around it. Refer to the idol for details.
Stick the Bow and Arrow to the hands of the Lord.

After attaching all the parts , the complete idol of the Lord looks like this.  



Once your quilling doll is ready , you can decorate the idol by putting a bead chain to the neck of the God. You can also stick kundan in the middle . Arrange the dasara dolls during the navarathri festival. It will look very beautiful. I hope you liked my creativity of making this doll. Please share your views on this. Please watch this space for more in the Dashavatar series.

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