Nature photographer and lover of Maratus speciosus, Jurgen Otto, captured this delightful photo of the Australian Peacock Spider (maratus s.). What an amazingly colorful creature. I love the vibrancy of its colors and the beautiful pattern on its “tail”. And check out the four green (mandala) eyes.
273 – Flare Mandala
My dear coloring friend and her friends did something I like to encourage colorers to do: color a mandala design more than once…especially my mandala designs…I’m a bit biased. For me it’s fascinating to see the different approaches different people take.
272 – Mars Mandala
Big news yesterday…NASA confirms evidence of intermittent liquid water on present-dayMars! And in honor of this announcement, I present to you one of NASA’s more interesting photos of Mars (IMHO). While Earth is considered the blue dot in space…Mars would be the red dot.
271 – Fun Glass Mandalas
Glass and Metal artist, Katy LaReau, created these delightfully whimsical garden art pieces that I had the pleasure of seeing in person yesterday at the annual Corvallis Fall Festival in Corvallis, Oregon. If you’re ever in Oregon towards the end of September, I highly recommend visiting wonderful art and music festival.
270 – Angelica Archangelica Mandala
What a delightful looking plant that Mother Nature offers up to us today: Angelica Archangelica, also known as garden angelica, Holy Ghost, wild celery, and Norwegian angelica.
269 – Sound and Water Mandala
When I spotted this beautiful mandala I immediately knew I wanted to showcase it here on the MotD. Upon further research I found out that the people of cymatics.org captured this image by adding sound to water.
268 – Gooding Mandala
UK artist, Ben Gooding, created this rather intriguing black and white acrylic painting on canvas entitled “Conflation No II.” About his…
