Part 1 of this Post explains the project and displays a slideshow of the watercolor version of the “Yellow Jacket” mandala color wheel.

Acrylics “Yellow Jacket” – Golden Acrylic Paints

All-in-all I enjoyed doing this project and will probably play with it some more in the future…trying different brands of paint along with doing them in color pencil, markers, and/or oils.

I hope you found this helpful.

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

Over 3 days, I completed both of these paintings. In the process I learned the following things:

• I need to improve the lighting for painting
• I need to improve my photography skills to better line up the images I take
• I prefer using magenta, cyan and yellow…the colors are much brighter and seem more true (IMHO)
• It seems that when I use the RBY combo, the colors come out warmer and the CMY combo creates cooler colors. I could see the value in using either combo depending on the desired outcome of the painting
• Until this project, I rarely used black…mostly just to outline designs. Adding varying degrees of black to the colors gave me a deeper range of colors.
• I found a big difference between using a slightly translucent acrylic black (bone black) vs opaque acrylic carbon black
• It’s okay to change my mind as I go through the project (you’ll see what I mean when you see the acrylic slideshows)
• Listen to the voice in my head that said I needed another photo of the completed acrylics version…I talked myself out of it thinking I had already done it.  If I had just taken a moment to view the images on my camera I would have noticed that I needed to take one more photo. The painting is now on its way to Orlando. When it returns at the end of the month, I’ll add it to the slideshow.

Watercolor “Yellow Jacket” – Graham W/C Paints

Read “Color Wheel Project – Part 2″ to see the Acrylics version of this mandala. (I made this into 2 posts so that I could have 2 separate slideshows)

I highly recommend doing a color wheel…you’ll get a better understanding of colors and how you only need a few colors to make all the colors you’ll ever need.

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

For this month’s section we focus on the 4th chapter of Susan Jeffers, PhD book, “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway”. Here we look at the payoffs for staying stuck in whatever circumstances we find ourselves whenever we take on the role of victim.

I really enjoy playing with  the cross-overs from one section to the next. Please know that for those of you coloring along, you’re free to color any way you choose…you can go with the cross overs or totally ignore them…that’s the joy of coloring these sections.

Just as a reminer…I’m  using mostly Tombow brand markers, with gel pens to accentuate or highlight.

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

Now to move on to color section 4

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

Happy Coloring!

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

I like using a variety of marker brands for a variety of effects. I use the brush style markers to ‘paint’ the backgrounds and textures. Then I like to overlay them with the gel and fine tip markers to add special effects and highlights. On the final slide you see a detail photo that shows how I used a gold gel marker to add hieroglyphic-styled markings…something that would be challenging to do with paint or color pencils.

joyfully,

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

ps: now on to section 3

And just as a reminder…I’m coloring this year’s mandala with markers…mostly Tombow brand and gel markers.