Many of my mandalas are created by just putting pencil to paper, free of any preconceived idea or design. They seemed to create themselves on the paper before my eyes. For “Star Power” I started with a simple pattern in the middle and it just grew from there.
Tag: circle
Week 15: Oh Tannenbaum
This is the first of my annual winter holiday mandalas. My initial idea was to place 12 trees around the circle with their tops touching a multi-faceted star in the center and each sharing ornaments at the ends of their branches.
Week 14: Butterfly
While walking one day I came across a dead, fully-intact, butterfly on the ground. I carefully picked it up and brought it home with the intention of creating a butterfly mandala based on its markings.
Week 13: Fiesta
The Fiesta mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a 3 week period in autumn 2007. It consists of …. My asymmetry mandalas come about by drawing in-the-moment inspired doodles.
Week 11: Hidden in Plain View
On occasion I participate in EBSQ’s monthly online art shows (of which I’m a juried member). The theme for the February 2009 show was: “One Word Concept: Hidden”. The idea “hidden in plain view” came to mind. I love playing around with words. I outlined the “hidden” word and then randomly doodled large wavy lines around and through it.
Week 9: Dreamcatcher
I’ve always been fascinated by dreamcatchers…it may have something to do with the fact that they contain a circle. A friend gave me a red-tailed hawk feather. I used it as my model for this dreamcatcher-like mandala.
Week 7: Garden Delight
This hyperbolic tessellation mandala features turquoise flowers and orange butterflies, with purple bodies and blue orbs on their wings; all of which help to make a garden delightful…hence the name “Garden Delight”. I used fine-point markers to color this version of Garden Delight.
Week 6: Resurrection
Prior to 2005 I had created to King Tut inspired mandalas. By 2005 I wanted to create another one. This one is my interpretation of a amulet/necklace worn by King Tut and on display at the Cairo Museum. The center scarab in this case represents Tut being carried off to the afterlife in a boat. The cobras and other scarabs are there to protect him on his journey.
Week 3: Sacred
Week 3: Sacred Mandala: “From my center comes my joy. From my center comes my truth.
Let me connect with my sacred center.”
Mandala of the Week 