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Mandala of the Week #30: Council of Twelve #1

Mandala of the Week #30: Council of Twelve #1
I wanted to create a mandala using the Egyptian Ankh symbol. I found that putting them side by side around a circle made them look like a group of 12 people holding hands.

Message: Whenever two or

Mandala of the Week #29: Stars N Stripes

Mandala of the Week #29: Stars N Stripes
Stars N Stripes started with a single spiral, that grew into a double spiral, divided into striped sections. When looking at the area outside the spiral, the idea of stars popped into my head. In the

Mandala of the Week #28: Pathway

Mandala of the Week #28: Pathway
The Pathway mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a three-week period in autumn 2007. I went into the creation of this mandala with the intent of drawing a spiral, and then

Mandala of the Week #27: Shine On

Mandala of the Week #27: Shine On
The overall look of this mandala reminds me of a star portal that is fully open, allowing us a view of a world with two suns. The square tube feels like a place to jump into that once you're in...

Mandala of the Week #26: Cosmic Sunflower

Mandala of the Week #26: Cosmic Sunflower
The "Cosmic Sunflower" mandala displays a simplified pattern (an oval with 8 protruding rays) repeated in fractal form in the upper and lower left sides of each 'sunflower', as it goes off the page in

Mandala of the Week #25: True Heart

Mandala of the Week #25: True Heart
This was a commissioned mandala for a young couple getting married. They wanted to make a special framed piece that would include their marriage license, the signatures of those in attendance at their

Mandala of the Week #24: Flare

Mandala of the Week #24: Flare
While meditating and thinking about my brother, Bob, this mandala design came to mind. Initially, I named this "Bad Bob"; his music name. It was while I was finalizing the design the name "Flare" came

Mandala of the Week #23: Celtic

Mandala of the Week #23: Celtic
The Celtic mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a 3-week period in autumn 2007. I went into the creation of this mandala with the intent of drawing an abstract celtic knot.

Mandala of the Week #22: Wiggle Room

Mandala of the Week #22: Wiggle Room
The Wiggle Room mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a 3-week period in autumn 2007. It consists of seven vertical wavy lines and twelve horizontal straight lines. My asymm

Mandala of the Week #21: Ahna #3

Mandala of the Week #21: Ahna #3
In June 2002, I had a reading done by a spirit medium who told me about my spirit guide of creativity. Her name is Ahna (Ahna is really androgynous; however I like to think of her as female). I felt c

Mandala of the Week #21: Ahna #2

Mandala of the Week #21: Ahna #2
In June 2002, I had a reading done by a spirit medium who told me about my spirit guide of creativity. Her name is Ahna (Ahna is really androgynous; however I like to think of her as female). I felt c

Mandala of the Week #21: Ahna #1

Mandala of the Week #21: Ahna #1
In June 2002, I had a reading done by a spirit medium who told me about my spirit guide of creativity. Her name is Ahna (Ahna is really androgynous; however I like to think of her as female). I felt c

Mandala of the Week #20: Fish

Mandala of the Week #20: Fish
The Fish mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a 3-week period in autumn 2007. It consists of nine vertical straight lines and five diagonal wavy lines. My asymmetry mandala

Mandala of the Week #19: Tut #2

Mandala of the Week #19: Tut #2
This mandala was inspired from the lid of a large alabaster box belonging to King Tut. I loved the multiple rows of detailed patterns which all lent itself well to the circular mandala form.

Mandala of the Week #19: Tut #1

Mandala of the Week #19: Tut #1
This mandala was inspired from the lid of a large alabaster box belonging to King Tut. I loved the multiple rows of detailed patterns which all lent itself well to the circular mandala form.

Mandala of the Week #18: Essence of Being #2

Mandala of the Week #18: Essence of Being #2
This design started out as a doodle and built upon itself. As I draw designs like this one, I start in the middle and draw out a simple idea; then I look at it and it just looks like something else ne

Mandala of the Week #18: Essence of Being #1

Mandala of the Week #18: Essence of Being #1
This design started out as a doodle and built upon itself. As I draw designs like this one, I start in the middle and draw out a simple idea; then I look at it and it just looks like something else ne

Mandala of the Week #17: Bowling for Sunshine

Mandala of the Week #17: Bowling for Sunshine
While taking a color pencil class, where each of us works on our own projects with guidance and tutelage from the instructor and fellow class mates, I decided to play with watercolor pencils. This man

Mandala of the Week #15: Oh Tannenbaum

Mandala of the Week #15: Oh Tannenbaum
This is the first of my annual winter holiday mandalas. My initial idea was to place 12 trees around the circle with their tops touching a multi-faceted star in the center and each sharing ornaments

Mandala of the Week #14: Butterfly

Mandala of the Week #14: Butterfly
Having trouble seeing the butterflies? Find the spiral antennae along the outer edge, it leads to the body...voila!

This mandala's message: Like the gentleness of the butterfly, so can I be to me.

Mandala of the Week #13: Fiesta

Mandala of the Week #13: Fiesta
The Fiesta mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a 3 week period in autumn 2007. It consists of two curvy lines...one of which started as a spiral. My asymmetry mandalas com

Mandala of the Week #12: Portal

Mandala of the Week #12: Portal
While doing a personalized mandala, this design came to me with the intention that this be a gift for everyone. It is designed to be used as a meditation tool in order to access deep within ourselves.

Mandala of the Week #11: Hidden in Plain View

Mandala of the Week #11: Hidden in Plain View
On occasion I participate in EBSQ's monthly online art shows (of which I'm a juried member). The theme for the February 2009 show was: "One Word Concept: Hidden". The idea "hidden in plain view" came

Mandala of the Week #10: Crystalite

Mandala of the Week #10: Crystalite
I created this design as part of a 'Call To Artist' event for the 2004 da Vinci Days poster contest. The design started as an abstract image of a tree (or as others have described it: the Star Trek co

Mandala of the Week #9: Dreamcatcher

Mandala of the Week #9: Dreamcatcher
I've always been fascinated by dreamcatchers...it may have something to do with the fact that they contain a circle. A friend gave me a red-tailed hawk feather. I used it as my model for this dreamcat

Mandala of the Week #8 Inner Tubes

Mandala of the Week #8 Inner Tubes
The Inner Tubes mandala is one of a series of 21 asymmetry mandalas created over a 3 week period in autumn of 2007. It consists of only 3 lines overlapping each other with a spiral in the middle. Many

Mandala of the Week #7 Garden Delight

Mandala of the Week #7 Garden Delight
This hyperbolic tessellation mandala features turquoise flowers and orange butterflies, with purple bodies and blue orbs on their wings; all of which help to make a garden delightful...hence the name

Mandala of the Week #5 Sacred Geometry

Mandala of the Week #5 Sacred Geometry
After several years of creating mandalas, I learned of the mathematical phenomenon of the golden mean or golden ratio (phi) which can be found everywhere, especially in nature. I developed a golden ra

Mandala of the Week #4 Vivian

Mandala of the Week #4 Vivian
In 1999, while at the shore in Jensen Beach, Florida, I was thinking of my friend, Vivian, and the image of this mandala came to mind. I drew the outline right there on the beach.

Mandala of the Week #3: Sacred

Mandala of the Week #3: Sacred
I created the "Sacred" mandala for the "2004 How I See the Sacred" art show Corvallis, Oregon at the First United Methodist Church.

Mandala of the Week #2: Music Hall

Mandala of the Week #2: Music Hall
The Music Hall Mandala came about from a doodle meditation session. When I looked down at the paper, I saw the center piece in my mind's eye and just started drawing what I saw. Then the rest just evo

Mandala of the Week #1: Re

Mandala of the Week #1: Re
This is one of the first mandala designs I created; it's pronounced 'rah'. It was inspired by the hieroglyphs I saw on the ceiling of Hathor's Temple in Dendara, Egypt.


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