Shoot! I thought I uploaded this before but it didn’t take. Better late than never…
Here’s my contribution for today. I was expecting a long day at work and then had to go get a new phone (an excursion that I had no idea would take 3 hours!). So, I decided to try to make an electronic mandala on my phone. I opened up my Pic Collage app (a favorite) and imported some pictures. I started with 4 ICADs I’d done last week with similar materials/techniques (all starting with a failed attempt at using a 3D stencil with gesso). I used those as the 4 “corners” of my circle. Then, I cropped a photo I took yesterday and made a kind of star design using several copies of it. The photo is kind of a funny story: I got this pinata for my parents’ surprise 50th Anniversary party at church. When I went back the next day, I happened to notice it hanging from a stick outside the dumpster. I guess the sexton couldn’t bare to chuck it. I call it “Resurrection of the Backyardigan”.
The mandala came out somewhat psychedelic looking, but the shape is strangely appealing to me. And I was able to use images of a few cards that I didn’t really like to make something pretty interesting. Mondays are always so hard to find time to really concentrate on anything, I’m starting to think I should actually plan ahead a bit and make my mandala on Sunday (and then just post it on Monday). That wouldn’t be cheating, would it?
This conversation reminded me of this blog post I saw (and loved) last summer: http://artinhand.org/2012/06/24/a-visual-vacation-flower-mandalas-by-kathy-klein/
Maybe you have seen it before??
Wow. That is beautiful. I’ve never seen such precision and detail in a design done with flowers. I’m sure the process of making that was truly mindful.
“Resurrection of the Backyardigan”? LOL. That’s funny.
Interesting mandala; I normally think of them as being sketched or painted, but not so much as a collage.
BTW, I encourage you to cheat for the next one. Might as well do stuff while you have more time than on busier days.
Thanks. I usually think of mandalas as drawn, too, but a couple other bloggers have been making them out of plants and flowers and posting them on Mondays (hence, the Mandala Monday). I loved the idea so I joined in.
And I’m totally going to start cheating. (Don’t tell anyone.)
Oh! And I totally didn’t notice that your Gravatar is a mandala. I love it!