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Draw the Circle Wide Mandala

20 Wednesday Sep 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Art on Exhibit, Zentangle Inspired Art

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100 Mandalas, Art, collage, green, Mandala, purple, Torus Mandala, Zentangle, ZIA

Draw the Circle Wide Layers

This may look familiar. It is part of a diptych I made for my living room. I’m greatly enjoying having them both up until the show at Alhamra Art Center in Bernardsville, NJ in October and November. Here they are together. They are mandalas 47 and 49 of 100!

Draw the Circle Wide Completed
Draw the Circle Wide Layers

Here are some process pictures of the second one.

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in progress collaged papers
in progress drawing torus

I hope you have a beautiful day!

Gratitude Journal: Zentangle Explorations

21 Wednesday Jun 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude Journal

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acrylic paint, Art Journal, Art Journal Every Day, colored pencil, Gratitude, Gratitude Journal, mixing paint, Prismacolor colored pencils, purple, Reticula, Zentangle

library zentangle class

This page layout is a little bit of a mess, but that is because I’ve been doing so much work. I made a batch of Artist Trading Cards and included some leftover bits from that on the left hand page. These include my new business card stickers from MOO that I put on the reverse side. People love these as my business cards. It is like they get there own little piece of art. I love the stickers and I hope you do too!

The right page has a prototype of one of the pieces of my Draw the Circle Wide mandala that is under construction. I made a photocopy and painted it with gouache to test how it would interact with acrylic matte medium. No smearing or bleeding of colors and the colors turned out nice and clear. I think this is how I’m going to paint these sections. Part of the development for that mandala was finding just the right purple. I also used this layout to document all my new Prismacolor colored pencils.

finding purple

It turned out that I needed to use magenta to get any purples that I liked. What was interesting was experimenting with Payne’s Gray as a blue. It also demonstrated that I have a lot of shades of blue and not as many reds. I may explore that further. Or maybe there just isn’t the same variety of hues. Do any of you know about that? In any case I used Ultramarine blue and magenta to make the purple for my iris.

Another feature of the right page of the gratitude journal entry was my playing with reticula in a mandala. What is a reticula?

Reticula play

It is a pattern that you put in a grid. Changing the orientation creates different  meta-patterns. This was one of the really wonderful things we explored at the Certified Zentangle Teacher seminar I went to in April. There is a lot of gratitude for my husband in these pages, too. I haven’t used one of my stencils for him in a while. Maybe this week. What are you grateful for? What is new in your art practice?

I hope you have a beautiful day.

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