by Louise | Mixed Media Mandalas, Monday Mandala, Nature Mandala's
Happy Monday! This week, I am inspired again by the abundant lavender plant that is blooming on my balcony. I shared my nature journal pages in the blog post here and wanted to play a little more with the sketches to create a mandala. Above is a mandala I created with...
by Louise | Free Mandala Class, Mixed Media Mandalas, Monday Mandala
Hi everyone and warmest welcome to you as I begin this blog series on Mandala explorations. As I mentioned in this post last week, I am excited to share what inspires me to create the different types of mandalas and also offer you a sneak peek into just a few of the...
by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Free Mandala Class, Mixed Media Mandalas, Monday Mandala
Hi everyone and welcome! For the free Mandala Class part 3, we are exploring mandalas in food. Today I have taken a slice of fennel and used this as inspiration for drawing. I also use the main part of the fennel to stamp out the natural mandala pattern from it. There...
by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Free Mandala Class, Mixed Media Mandalas, Monday Mandala
Hi everyone and welcome! For the free Mandala Class part 4, we are taking a simple, beautiful flower and drawing this inside a circle. I will be starting off with a line drawing, showing you my macro photography for inspiration and also using watercolor pencils to add...
by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Free Mandala Class, Mixed Media Mandalas, Monday Mandala
Hi everyone! For the free Mandala Class part 5, (the last in this 5 part free class series) we are having a go at drawing a sacred geometry design. My drawing is based on a curved Octogram. The octogram shape is used as a basis to draw symmetries of octagon...
by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Free Mandala Class, Mixed Media Mandalas, Monday Mandala
I had so many lovely emails from you all about my “from the studio” video, asking about the mixed media mandalas class that I decided my “Monday Mandala” practice from 2013 was one that I was being called to invite back and explore further. So...