by Nysha | Jun 24, 2013 | bullet mandala, Mandala
0066 x 6Mixed media on paper 0076 x 6Mixed media on paper One of the great things about working in a series is the idea of duplicates or flushing out an idea. Here are two mandalas that are the same outline treated individually. I wanted to know how distinct I could make them look. In addition to their own colour schemes they follow distinct programs of value and contrast.In ‘006’ the highest contrast is in the ring toward the center. In ‘007’ it occurs further out and the tips are darker in value. Also there is more contrast in the patterns in ‘007’.In working on these I tried to push the differences yet they have the same feel. Perhaps because I did them both. My use of graduated colour, dots and hatching gives them a similarity.What similarities and differences do you identify? Have you tried something like this, trying to make multiples look different? What was the result? I would love to...
by Nysha | Jun 16, 2013 | bullet mandala, Illustration, Mandala, zentangles
0056″ x 6″Mixed media on paper Mandalas by nature have a radiating quality. In illustrating or Zen Tangling these mandalas I am trying to give a greater sense of radiating or pulsing. Some are more successful than others. Some, like this seem to take on another feeling altogether. I like it. Calm with a hint of heat, just like the weekend...
by Nysha | Jun 10, 2013 | bullet mandala, Mandala, zentangles
Just another Mandala Monday Wish it were Sunday… Cause I could use another day. How about you? So many things happening in my world and everyone with a deadline! 0046 x 6Mixed Media on paper One of the things I anticipated in doodling or ZenTangling 144 Mandalas was repetition and boredom. To conquer that would be a feet worthy of the doing. Also to use several of the same outlines and make them look completely different — not just in colour scheme, no to use colour, value and pattern to make them look like different outlines. THIS is much more challenging than I thought! And yet I love the...
by Nysha | Jun 3, 2013 | bullet mandala, Derwent Inktense Pencils, Mandala
Can you wrap your head around the fact that today is the 3rd day of the sixth month of 2013? The year is half over. Christmas will be here before we turn around twice. (Yes, I did go there!) Spring has been nice – a little wet here in Tennessee and yet with all the rain I did not see a rainbow. I created my own version… 0046 x 6Mixed Media on paper For those of you who do not know about Derwent Inktense Pencils — can I say THEY ARE THE MOST INCREDIBLE INVENTION! They go onto the paper like coloured pencil, but then you wet them and they are ink and are insoluble. I love the range of intense to muted they can achieve as well as the layering and blending available. Here I started filling in one shape with the yellow. Then I filled in the next with orange, etcTry them...
by Nysha | May 28, 2013 | bullet mandala, Mandala
Another Mandala Monday even if a day late. 0036 x 6Mixed Media on...
