Faces Mandala

The prompt at One Single Impression this week is ‘faces’ and I knew I would have fun with it the minute I saw it.   First I wrote the haiku as doing it that way seems to direct me.

Eyes, ears, nose and mouth
They are all so different
Yet so much the same

Then I did the mandala.

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Rest Mandala

The prompt at One Single Impression this week is ‘Rest’ suggested by ‘The Manic Gardner’

Here is my haiku:

To rest and relax
Let the world pass me by
Regeneration!

My goal was to create a peaceful mandala for this prompt and really had to restrain myself from the bright bold colors I normally use so I used colored pencils and then buffed it with a cotton ball (for those of you who care

Do you get a restful feel from this?

I have a mandala posted just before this one where I describe how haiku really inspires me to create these mandalas, in fact there are three of them as I continued through the process.

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Idea Mandala

I created this mandala in response to a challenge from a new group I joined, Mandala Oasis.  The challenge is “Explore a practice”.

I have been asked how I do my mandalas so I am going to try and explain my process and hope it makes sense.  I usually get in the ‘zone’ so far I have a hard time explaining it but I purposely ‘watched myself’ so to say.

I have found that I think better if I create a haiku and then the mandala.    As I thought about the challenge of ‘explore a practice’ I thought about where creative ideas come from.  This was the first haiku that came to mind:

Opening your mind
Reveals creative thoughts
Cirlce them and bloom

I wanted to show how ideas come from the outside, enter our mind, swirl around until they ‘bloom with a creative thought’.  As I progressed with the mandala another haiku came to mind:

Once in awhile
The idea blossoms hot
Happiness is born

As I progressed the ideas were coming hot and heavy, (“I think I need something here and a color there and so on”).  When I thought I was done, another haiku came to mind:

Explore the practice
Minds are full of ideas
Just reap the riches

It was at this point that I thought of adding the little bubbles and it seemed to pull it all together.  

As I look at every mandala I have ever done I wonder where it all comes from.   I am also so relaxed when I finish one so I know they are good for me.

As I look at this mandala it seems chock full of ideas that are bursting to get out.  I would be interested in what you think and feel when you look at it.

I almost always use sharpies in a Handbook sketchbook and occasionally a mandala just calls for black paper.

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Myth Mandala

The prompt at One Single Impression this week is ‘myth’ suggested by Suijin.

I thought I would have trouble writing a haiku for this but it just seemed to write itself:

Love is not a myth
The dreamy look, the soft touch
Its just magical!

(Still the romantic

Then I saw a flower that inspired the mandala.   I thought it worked so well with what I had written.

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Window Mandala

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The prompt at One Single Impression this week is “Through a Window” suggested by ‘Over Good Ground’.

‘The stained glass windows
Are awash with happiness
And prisms of joy!’

Please excuse my slightly wonky circle, my pen got away from me

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