Lesson 2 of Nature Inspired Mandalas
Monday, March 2, 2015
Today was Lesson 2 of Nature Inspired Mandalas. It was very interesting to see everyone's preliminary ideas for their mandalas. We saw everything from Celtic ideas, to a focus on the white chestnut tree, to an iris focus, and many more.
As for my idea, I was struggling, so let's see how my thought process went.....
- first, I thought of the ginkgo leaf just because I love their shape and name
- then I thought of the importance of my faith, family, and friends
- of course, my heritage came to mind as well as the Greek cross and Greek key
- the word Agape came to mind because it means love, so I might place it on the cross
However, I just could not quite make it all work in my mind. Then, I thought of the olive branch and it's importance in Greek heritage. Things finally started clicking, but I wanted a more artsy look to the olive branch, so I started searching the internet. I know, perhaps that sounds like cheating, but I am new to drawing and not yet able to just come up with my own style. After searching, I found what looks like a watercolor-like drawing of the olive branch. Of course when I draw it it looks a bit different; that is, if I am lucky it will only look a bit different.
First Draft--process is to jot my ideas, and then I placed the focus point which is the cross. In this draft the words are in a circle around the mandala and I had not yet decided on the olive branch. I also played with Greek key (left side) but I do not have the patience to draw that.
Second draft--process. I am trying to figure out how to use the color blue. Thought of putting on outer edge. Then pull the olive branch from the cross. Not sure how I feel about that, so more thinking has to happen.
Third step of process-- I decided to put the olive branch on the outer edge. The cross remains in the middle but I am still not sure about that. I want to pull the words from the cross and put Agape in the cross--maybe. Not sure how I feel about blue words so might do the whole thing on blue paper and do something different with the words. Maybe write the words in vine letters?? Maybe the cross is just the word agape written horizontally and vertically??
Stay tuned for the final product on Monday.
Today was Lesson 2 of Nature Inspired Mandalas. It was very interesting to see everyone's preliminary ideas for their mandalas. We saw everything from Celtic ideas, to a focus on the white chestnut tree, to an iris focus, and many more.
As for my idea, I was struggling, so let's see how my thought process went.....
- first, I thought of the ginkgo leaf just because I love their shape and name
- then I thought of the importance of my faith, family, and friends
- of course, my heritage came to mind as well as the Greek cross and Greek key
- the word Agape came to mind because it means love, so I might place it on the cross
However, I just could not quite make it all work in my mind. Then, I thought of the olive branch and it's importance in Greek heritage. Things finally started clicking, but I wanted a more artsy look to the olive branch, so I started searching the internet. I know, perhaps that sounds like cheating, but I am new to drawing and not yet able to just come up with my own style. After searching, I found what looks like a watercolor-like drawing of the olive branch. Of course when I draw it it looks a bit different; that is, if I am lucky it will only look a bit different.
First Draft--process is to jot my ideas, and then I placed the focus point which is the cross. In this draft the words are in a circle around the mandala and I had not yet decided on the olive branch. I also played with Greek key (left side) but I do not have the patience to draw that.
Second draft--process. I am trying to figure out how to use the color blue. Thought of putting on outer edge. Then pull the olive branch from the cross. Not sure how I feel about that, so more thinking has to happen.
Stay tuned for the final product on Monday.
And now you should post the picture.
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