For 2025, we’re embarking on a pilgrimage of inward healing, growth, and self-discovery…regardless of whether the healing is related to … More
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24-26 Uncharted Territory #4
A Journey Into JoyStep 6 — Week 4: Uncharted Territory Step 6 is about facing new-to-us experiences as we move … More
24-22 The First Step #4
A Journey Into JoyStep 5 — Week 4: The First Step Step 5 encourages us to “cross the threshold”, in … More
17-30: Night Crawlers Mandala
“Night Crawlers” may seem like an unusual title for a mandala and yet that’s what this mandala wanted to be … More
16-17: The Color Purple
Download this Week’s Mandala of the Week As I contemplated this week’s MotW, based on this week’s MotD theme, The … More
Week 30: Council of Twelve
“Council of Twelve” “Whenever two or more are gathered as one, the possibilities are endless.” I created two full-color versions … More
Week 29: Stars N Stripes
“Stars N Stripes” For this mandala design, I created one full-color version using color pencils: Stars N Stripes started with … More
Week 27: Shine On
The overall look of this mandala reminds me of a star portal, a stargate, that is fully open, allowing us a view of a world with two suns. The vertical square tube feels like a place where you could jump into, like jumping into a worm hole.
Week 25: True Heart
“True Heart” “I love, honor, and respect all that I am” I created one full-color version using color pencils: This … More
Week 24: Flare
“Flare” “In my stillness, comes my peace and joy” I created one full-color version using markers: While meditating and thinking … More
Week 17: Bowling for Sunshine
While taking a studio colored pencil class, where each of us works on our own projects with guidance and evaluation from the instructor and fellow class mates, I decided to play with watercolor pencils. This was my second painting from that experimentation.
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 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 