I have been MIA fro the passed week, and for that I am truly sorry. A lot has happened, and basically I was just to busy to find the time or the availability of mind to post.
I have quite a few new pieces ready, and am pretty frustrated at the thought of photographing them, do to my regular complaints about photographing.
I have been asking around thinking about the issue, but as of yet have not done another trial to see how I can get my pics looking a bit more like my work, so you will have to take my word for it… my new work is really lovely.
But that is not what I wanted to write about today, in fact, it is exactly what I didn’t want to write about today.
Over the weekend, I had an open studio day, and one of the artists I invited to participate was a painter, called Osnat Shahar, who’s main focus is painting madalas.
She also teaches workshops to both adults and kids and that is what she actually came her to market.
In order to do that, she bought ready made mandalas that she had drawn and photocopied, just in outlines (making something that was fun to color in) and she was selling them for a symbolic amount of money, to let people experience the mandala.
I realized, after looking at her work, that I had unknowingly been drawing mandalas of sorts for years and years, like most people, and of course jumped on the opportunity of sitting and coloring in one of her mandalas.
Because we were quite busy, it took me the better part of the day, to finish it, and I was delighted with the result.
Osnat noticed that I had started coloring it in from the outer border, mentioned it to me and made me realize that that is pretty much an MO of mine. I skirt along the walls, afraid to approach the center…
She suggested that the I try to draw one myself, but start if from the centre. I didn’t have time to do that during the open studio. but the next day I had a meeting with my networking group, and I was doodling, as I usually do. I noticed that I was drawing mandalas, from the centre out, after I had done a couple without paying much attention to what I was doing.
1rst Mandala
Once I started to pay attention to what I was doing, I noticed that the rhythm of the mandala will make you take certain steps in drawing the next round, and will result in something completely different than what you would have drawn if you weren’t really working on a pattern.
2nd mandala
A while back, I posted about looking for some daily visual creative outlet that didn’t necessarily have to do with jewelry, and wouldn’t demand more than 15 minutes a day of my time - I think I have found it.
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