2016-073 – Blue Mandala

This week’s MotD theme: Blue Every Sunday, I post on my Mandala of the Week site a simple mandala to color … More

The Planet Neptune as photographed by NASA

2016-071 – Neptune Mandala

New Week::New Theme: Blue We start this week’s theme with an out-of-this-world example of a blue mandala: the beautiful planet Neptune … More

Psychedelic Pluto - image credit NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

329 – Psychedelic Pluto Mandala

Now this is more like the way I would color a planet if given the opportunity!

Earlier this year, NASA’s New Horizons did it’s closest flyby past the last known planet in our solar system: Pluto. Since then, scientists have been working with (or in this case coloring with) the data to gain more insight about this adorable planet’s surface.

296 – Monster Stars Mandalas

In keeping with the Halloween theme, today we showcase two “monster” stars kissing as they head to their doom. Luís Calçada’s rendering of this kiss gives us two beautiful blue fire ball stars with lots of swirls very similar to Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting.

Pluto's Heart - Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

196 – Pluto’s Heart Mandala

Yesterday an amazing thing happened…and it was 10 years and three-billion-miles in the making! NASA’s New Horizons did it’s closest flyby past the last known planet in our solar system: Pluto. And look what appeared around the back side: an area that looks like a heart. And for me, I can also see it as a white dove flapping its wings.

Mercury Mandala - Image by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

127 – Mercury Mandala

What spectacular images of the planet Mercury collected by MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) from 2011 through April 30, … More

70 – Angels and Devils Mandala

I have a personal attachment to today’s MotD.

It was while visiting (twice) an M.C. Escher exhibit in Portland Oregon a few years back, where I came face-to-face with this piece, Angels and Devils, and became immediately inspired to expand my style of mandala designs from symmetry/asymmetry to hyperbolic tessellations.