mixed media, paper crafts, acrylics, digital, fabric, metal, polymer clay, altered books or any other bits and pieces of ephemera I can find to display.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
My First Mandala
This is my first mandala. I started with an ad in a magazine - a picture of fruit - for an inspiration, used pens first, then scanned and then used Photoshop to brush in details and add words and background swirls. I made 2.5x3.5 sized ATCs of these to send in to a swap hosted by Megan Warren in Australia, one of my soul sisters on my Soul Journaling group. I love to look at the mandalas of Patricia Mosca at From the Inside Out, whose work inspires me in this area. It took me a while to get the hang of mandalas because they are so different from what I'm used to doing, so I'm extra proud of this.
This mandala is wonderful!!!!!!!!! If this is your first one...then you are a natural...thank you for the kind words ...they certainly make my heart smile...I love the message this mandala brought to you... Artfully Yours, Pattie
Originally a Jersey girl, I moved to Manhattan in 2004 when I married my handsome husband. I have two funny, amazing, grown-up kids (and a kid-in-law) who are the light of my life, a sweet little dog and two goofy cats. All these people make me smile daily. I own my own business and like my job a lot, and when I'm not working I like to play with art, photoshop, my camera, books, writing, and of course, i love to shop.
This mandala is wonderful!!!!!!!!! If this is your first one...then you are a natural...thank you for the kind words ...they certainly make my heart smile...I love the message this mandala brought to you...
ReplyDeleteArtfully Yours,
Pattie