Sick of Mandalas Yet?

- November 06, 2021

I'm starting to tire of creating mandalas but yet I can't seem to stop.

One night, before I fell asleep I had an idea of creating a mandala that was a birds nest seen from above with the branches and leaves coming out from below the nest. I thought it would be clever to use a spirograph design as the nest and then paint eggs over the top of it. I forgot to take a photo of the spirograph colored in as a nest. You can kind of see it under the white I painted on top (bottom right). I really hated it. I was going to toss the whole thing, but decided to give it another chance by painting over the spirograph immediately.

I'm glad I gave it another chance.

I like the way this nest came out much better.

I have no idea what this one was supposed to be. I think I had sunshine in mind. After I colored it I thought it looked off. It took me a minute to realize I hadn't put any designs in the shapes!

I like this better.

More to look at, and more shading to add depth.

Flowers and Trees.

This looks more like divers or synchronized swimmers, than the snowflake I intended it to be.

A snowglobe? A plate? Who knows.

I like this set. The bottom one reminds me of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, a famous Japanese woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai. I think it's the colors (though mine are brighter) and the wavy bits. No boats or Mount Fuji in mine though. So maybe they really aren't anything alike. You decide.