Yikes! It’s been almost a month since I last posted (and did any coloring)…how did I let this happen! Oh well…time to get back on track with coloring on a regular basis.
So the last two days I finally had an opportunity to do some more coloring and in the process, I finished this version of “Fly Away With Me.” Yay! Now that it’s done, it has a bit of an MC Escher look to it. I definitely want to do more of this style of coloring. I think I’ll do one of the hyperbolic tessellation ones next…they have lots more detail.
With yesterday’s coloring, I recorded me coloring in one of the outer sections so you could see the process.
Here’s the slideshow of my process over the last two days:
For days 3 and 4 started adding layers of detail. On day 3, I added spirals and curved lines to the “wings”. On day 4, I started adding much finer details to the inner bands of wings that were a bit of a challenge even with a .005 micron pen. The overall effect in the end should be cool. Actually I’m starting to see a pattern building with the background negative space.
Full view of coloring to date
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I plan to video the next day of coloring…which will probably be on Monday.
I finished all the narrow sections on all the “wing” parts. I filmed most of today’s progress and then increased the speed…bringing 24 minutes down to under 2 minutes…love technology when it works.
All the coloring I’ve done so far on this piece was done using squiggly lines…one of my favorite strokes and easy to do.
Okay onto the next mandala coloring as part of my “ink drawing” series. This one is title “Fly Away With Me”. It’s a simplistic rendition of butterflies with overlapping upper and lower wings. Today I start with squiggly lines…my favorite.
Today, I finished version three of the “Wings” mandala. I worked on the small outer band (72 mini-windows) and fine-tuned other sections here and there.
Close-up of small outer band of 72 mini windows.
Full view of completed “Wings” Mandala – version 3
Now to pick out the next one And with this one, I plan to video some or all of my progress…if I can set it up easily on my work table.
Today I finished the “dots” around the flying critter heads and start on the outside band. Tomorrow I should be able to finish this piece. It’s always fun to work on these and equally as fun to finish…so I can move onto the next one
Finally had some time to continue coloring this version of “Wings“. Most of the focus is on the “flying critters” for now. I have 6 more ‘critters’ to finish coloring…note the difference between the upper right area versus the lower left. Once I finish the critters, then it’s on to the border…which may take 1 or 2 days to do depending on how much time I give myself to color.
Day 6: full view to date
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Here’s the second version of “Wings” that I did back a few years ago. Remember how the first one looked like a rose window? This one, to me, looks like a piece of Spanish tile. It still blows me away how just changing colors and changing the focus on different patterns within a design completely changes the whole look of a piece.
Second version of “Wings” mandala…this version was done with markers.
