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“Riddle Me This” Hyperbolic Tessellation Mandala

Posted in Water Media, tagged , , , , , , , on September 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I recently completed this version of the “Riddle Me This” hyperbolic tessellation mandala (my own design) and it is on display throughout September 2011 at The Arts Center in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. The exhibition is entitled “Calculated Result – Mathematical Art”. I juried in 3 pieces for this show. All of which I’ll post on this blog. Today, it’s Riddle Me This’s turn.

“Riddle Me This” is a hyperbolic tessellation mandala. This version is 32″ diameter on 36″x36″ watercolor paper. I used watercolors and markers to paint it.

This slideshow shows its progress from beginning to end.

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Happy Coloring!

joyfully,
Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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“Echo” Hyperbolic Tessellation Mandala

Posted in Water Media, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This version of “Echo” is on display throughout September 2011 at The Arts Center in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. The exhibition is entitled “Calculated Result – Mathematical Art”. I juried in 3 pieces for this show. All of which I’ll post on this blog. Today, it’s Echo’s turn.

“Echo” is a hyperbolic tessellation mandala. This version is 32″ diameter on 36″x36″ watercolor paper. I used watercolors, gouache, and markers to paint it.

This slideshow shows its progress from beginning to end.

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Happy Coloring!

joyfully,
Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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“NahVee” Coloring

Posted in Color Pencils, Markers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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:

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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

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“Butterflies” Coloring

Posted in Color Pencils, Markers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , 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:

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Happy Coloring!

joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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“Seashells She Sells” Coloring

Posted in Color Pencils, Markers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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:

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I enjoyed making this piece especially using the ink markers to create the shadow areas.

Happy Coloring!

joyfully, Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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“All a Flutter” Mandala [1]

Posted in Markers, tagged , , , , , , , on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On June 28, I started painting the “All a Flutter” mandala.  I’m using Zig brand scrapbook markers.  This design is a hyperbolic tessellation which you can read more about on my hyperbolic tesselations web site.  MC Escher used the concept of hyperbolic tessellation for his Circle Limit series, “Angels and Demons” being his most popular one.

I called this “All a Flutter” because the pattern reminds me of an image of flapping hummingbird wings as if captured via a high-speed camera.

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Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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