Today it was all about prep work using an abandoned mandala project as my starting point.
My painting progress for today:
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1 – we start here
2 – a layer of gesso with texture
3 – smoothed out the texture
4 – second layer of gesso
5 – a “wash” layer of magenta
A couple of years ago I started a 12″x12″ mandala painting entitled “I Dream of Genie”. Image #1 shows where I left off. I decided to use this panel a my surface for “Windmill”.
I took two coats of gesso to cover up the red. In checking in with “Windmill”, it wanted the new background color to be magenta. It’s reasoning? “it’s a cooler color”…pun intended. My Team has a sense of humor. 🙂
My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways
For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits.
Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it.
As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?
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