Rock In Red

Today's effort at dotting a mandala on a rock. I've done quite a few mandala rocks in the past couple of weeks. This one is not one of my best pieces, but I wanted to show my struggles.

There's numerous things about this one that didn't go as well as I would have liked, "swooshes" being one of them. I keep giving in to the allure of adding swooshes since they add so much to a mandala -- usually. But in my case they turn out so terribly that they end up disappointingly irregular.

Here's what swooshes should look like!

https://youtu.be/-XKxQ4nkdAY?t=33

Dot Mandalas

I've been rather absorbed lately in a meditative new hobby. I find it so engaging that I lose track of time.

It takes a steady hand, some idea of pleasing colour combinations, and an eye for spatial alignment, 

but luckily it requires no real drawing skill.

These are "dot mandalas", and although I have painted these on ordinary rocks, mandalas can be done on various smooth surfaces. 

These final two photos are of my earliest practice pieces, done on poster board disks purchased in a pack at a dollar store.

I'll have more mandalas to show in the future. I'm not anywhere near finished with this obsession yet!

I've already got four more painted, but they aren't sealed yet.