It has been a couple months since the AATA conference, our presentation, and me thinking about mandalas. My "mission" ended and sadly I have wandered down a road where I'm less aware of mandalas, creating less mandalas, and feel less of an mandala influence in my life. I don't like this place! I stumbled across this website today and think I might use it to reconnect.
http://mandalaofthemonth.com/ I've just been so busy - but perhaps this is the solution for now. I will color - and it's just one a month. I can do this - YOU can do this! Try with me. I posted September's but link to a large version on the Mandala of the Month site. Navigate to the "About Me" section and click on the Mandala Lady's artist statement. Interesting story and she shares some cool techniques I haven't tried for making mandalas - like putting found objects on the paper and just pouring paint over them to see what happens. I will have to try. Nameste.
Amy
Thank You for saying it. Sometimes our lives get to be so heck-tick that we hardly have time for the important things...ourselves. I know that when I am in a crunch the first thing to disappear is my creative-encounter time. However, if a stranger were to ask me what I valued most (for my sanity) during stressful times I would instinctively answer: My ART! Yet, it is the 1st thing to go! and so, in the absence of quality time for a true expressive experience I too have doodled or dare not say it..COLORED!
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