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Life Documented - Week 12 - Cascade of mandalas

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Hi guys!! 

I'm very happy because this week I was the guest for creating the prompt for Life Documented. 

Since the theme of the month is bloom and as I love to draw mandalas I dicides to suggest to play with mandalas this week. 

Prompt: doodle and use bloom Mandalas

Technique:  play with washes and drips of watercolors

Quote: "If we remain afraid and closed off we never know what it feels like to bloom" by Lori Schaefer

All the tutorials for the week were publish on Saturday on the Life Documented blog. But for those of you that aren't in Life Documented I would love to share with you too. I loved to do this spread. 

Today I will share my art journal page with a cascade of mandalas, and tomorrow I will share little art cards.

This is my interpretation for this week prompt and techniques. Hope you enjoy. 

Well, what i made first was to play with washes of watercolor and draw the mandalas. This is the center of my work this week, and I  used the mandalas that I draw in the three pieces that I  created

1. In sheets of a chemistry book I add washes  and drips of watercolor

2. I draw/doodle mandalas

This is only an example of my process to do my mandalas. I like imperfections, so i don't use a compass most of the time, I just draw. Do several of them, play and have fun. I only use a micron pen to draw. 

3. Cut all the mandalas and cut them in half's

For my journal page I saved two half's of mandalas for the card and the tag and use all the rest for this page. 

1. I add swipes of color to my page

2. I collage the mandalas, like a bouquet

3. I doodle some feathers

4. I add some black paint to add contrast

5. Then with acrylic paint I add more contrast color to the mandalas.

6. In the end I add lots of marks.

Mandala mark making - tutorial

In week 5 of Life Documented I did a page in my journal with mandalas, feathers and lots of marks, like this one. One creative girl from the group, Teri Mezzo Flemal, asked me if I could share some steps. Sometimes I'm only creating and i don't remember of taking photos. I just let the creative fluid flow and it's so good!!!

So I did another one and take some photos to share the steps. Hope you like,I gather three of the things that I most love that are mandalas, feathers and mark making.

1. I play with washes of watercolor on a watercolor paper

2. I draw my mandalas and feathers.

3. Paint all the rest with black acrylic paint.

4. I add more detail and bold to some parts of my mandalas.

5. Now is time for marks, lots of marks!!! I love to incorporate words in my work. 

                                6. I add lots of dots too!!

Mandalas!

in love with mandalas

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