Posted in Color Pencils, tagged 2011 mandala of the year, coloring, mandalas, maureen frank, photos on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I put all 12 sections of the 2011 Mandala of the Year together into one large mandala.
I apologize for the quality of the photos. I mainly wanted you to get the feel of how it all came together.
The sections of the Mandala of the Year are free to download & color at www.MandalaoftheYear.com
Happy Coloring!
joyfully,
Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, tagged 2011 mandala of the year, maureen frank, section 6, the mandala lady on January 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I spent two afternoons coloring this version of Section 6 of the 2011 Mandala of the Year (MotY). Feel free to download and color your own version. The idea of the MotY is to color one section per month so that by the end of the year you can put them all together to create one large mandala.
Here’s the progression from beginning to end of Section 6…
Happy Coloring!
joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, tagged coloring, fun, mandala, mandala of the year, mandalas to color, maureen frank, meditation, relaxing, the mandala lady on October 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I spent one afternoon coloring this version of Section 5 of the 2011 Mandala of the Year (MotY). Feel free to download and color your own version. The idea of the MotY is to color one section per month so that by the end of the year you can put them all together to create one large mandala.
Here’s the progression from beginning to end of Section 5…
Happy Coloring!
joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, tagged color pencil, mandala of the year, maureen frank, section 3, the mandala lady on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I spent two different afternoons coloring this version of Section 3 of the 2011 Mandala of the Year (MotY). Feel free to download and color your own version. The idea of the MotY is to color one section per month so that by the end of the year you can put them all together to create one large mandala.
Here’s the progression from beginning to end of Section 3…
Happy Coloring!
joyfully,
Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, tagged 2011, mandala of the year, maureen frank, section 2, the mandala lady on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I took some time out Friday to color a second version of Section 2 of the 2011 Mandala of the Year.
Feel free to download and color this section for yourself: Section 2
Here’s a slideshow demonstrating my progress.
Happy Coloring!
Joyfully,
Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, Markers, tagged avatar, blue, gold, green, hyperbolic tessellation, illustration, ink, mandala, maureen frank, nahvee, navi, red, scribble stroke, the mandala lady, yellow on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The movie “Avatar” inspired this hyperbolic tessellation mandala. In one of the scenes, the Navi people encircled a fire, with arms reaching forward to the person in front of them. The power of that scene motivated me to create the essence of that grouping.
For this coloring of it, I wanted to create a pen & ink look…more like an illustration…and then color over it with color pencils. I used a scribble stroke to ink in the shadow areas. This mandala measures 32″ in diameter on 36″ square paper; so it’s quite large for a color pencil piece. I painted it in three days 3/24, 25, 27/2011.
I apologize in advance for the poor quality of some of the images. Here’s a slide show of my progress on this painting:
I enjoyed making this piece especially using the ink markers to create scribbles for the shadow areas. I plan to do this style again.
Happy Coloring!
joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, Markers, tagged blue, butterflies, color pencil, dots, green, hyperbolic tessellation, illustration, ink, mandala, maureen frank, stippling, the mandala lady, yellow on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I used a simplistic drawing of a butterfly and converted into this hyperbolic tessellation mandala. For this coloring of it, I wanted to create a pen & ink look…more like an illustration…and then color over it with color pencils. For this mandala, I used a stippling (lots of dots) stroke to create the shadow areas (very tedious). This mandala measures 32″ in diameter on 36″ square paper; so it’s quite large for a color pencil piece. I painted it in four days 3/21-24/2011.
I apologize in advance for the poor quality of some of the images. Here’s a slide show of my progress on this painting:
Happy Coloring!
joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, Markers, tagged blue, color pencil, hyperbolic tessellation, illustration, ink, mandala, orange, seashells, she sells seashells, sketch, yellow on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I took a cartoonish drawing of a conch shell and converted into this hyperbolic tessellation mandala. For this coloring of it, I wanted to create a pen & ink look…more like an illustration…and then color over it with color pencils. This mandala measures 32″ in diameter on 36″ square paper; so it’s quite large for a color pencil piece. I painted it in two days 3/19-20/2011.
I apologize in advance for the poor quality of some of the images. Here’s a slide show of my progress on this painting:
I enjoyed making this piece especially using the ink markers to create the shadow areas.
Happy Coloring!
joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady
Posted in Color Pencils, tagged blue, colorless blender, floaty thing, green, mandala of the year, maureen frank, orbs, section 2, shadows, the mandala lady on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I finished the last 2 pieces of Section 2 of the 2011 Mandala of the Year. Along with coloring these two shapes, I also puts some shading on the large orb, making it appear that these two pieces are floating above or by the orb. Tomorrow I plan to post the Section 3 design for coloring during the month of March (or whenever you can get to it)
For more information about the Mandala of the Year project go to www.MandalaoftheYear.com
Happy Coloring!
joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady
