Tag: art
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Mandala 2 06/27/23
“In flight” I’ll admit it. Airplanes make me nervous. Do I push through? Absolutely.
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Mandala 6/27/23
“Waiting for departure” A delayed flight, coupled with a fierce determination to do something productive; one sketch pad, a pack of colorful gel pens, and a novel later, I sat down to read. A few chapters of “Cloud Cuckoo Land” (by Anthony Doerr) later, filled with growing anticipation, I shifted to the sketch pad. I…
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Mandala 01/08/23
It’s been years since I have created, much less finished a mandala. My preferred medium of the past would have been black Sharpie on white canvas or white sketchbook paper. Upon entering the local Michael’s something different came to mind. I picked up a pack of black canvases to my own astonishment, in addition to…
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Mandala 2017
Mandala – “Bold by the River” 2017 This mandala is the only color piece I have created to date. Way back when art was my major, I enjoyed using acrylic paint. I figured I’d start painting color backgrounds and creating the mandala on top. Another plan came into fruition though, especially in regard to the…
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Mandala 4-16-17
4-16-17 – “Introversion” This is a really small mandala, about 4 x 6. The pen that I was using kept giving up on me so I had to put a few to work on this one. I notice that this one shows rightward movement as the previous one I had done from my own collection…
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Mandala 8-29-16
8/29/16 – “Manifestation: Learning and Growing” This was the first mandala that I created on a canvas. I realized that sharpie performs wonderfully well on this type of medium and it looks even more sharp than the drawing paper I was using previously. The intention I set for this mandala was “Manifestation, Learning and Growing.”…
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Mandala 6-30-16
6/30/16 – “Communication” Clearly I was on a role creating Mandalas during the month of June. I had found a new release and I felt as though I was onto something. I started out with the intention of “communication.” I had no idea how I was going to convey that, but hey, art flows in…
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Mandala 6-11-16
6-11-16 – “Oasis Amongst Chaos” I finished up this mandala shortly after I had just finished my second one. I was utilizing heavy sketch book paper, pencil and sharpie. I decided to utilize my compass on this one to create the circles. After I created the center (I always start in the center and work…
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Mandala 6/5/16
6/5/16 – “Growth” Mandalas are circular designs that reflect the wholeness of the person creating them. According to Carl Jung, “a mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of self.” Jung a Swiss psychiatrist, discovered the significance of mandalas through his own inner work. “I sketched every morning in a notebook, a small circular…
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Mandalas
I started creating mandalas in May of 2016. I knew a little bit about Carl Jung, psychology, and spiritual studies. I set out to create a mandala one day because I wanted to see what my “inner mind” looked like. I was deep into astrological studies at the time and had a real yearning to…
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