Art Progressions

Today I finished 3 of the last 6 sections of orange on the “Bangles” mandala.

Painting these frames takes a while for me.  Because I’m wanting to have a smooth look to them, it takes me longer to paint an even blend of the cad. yellow medium, dioxazine purple, and cad. red medium.  I also painted the smaller orange diamond with is just outside the photo to the lower right.

Close of orange frames

Here’s the full view thus far:

Full Vie

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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I finished 4 more sections of orange today.  It’s taking me a lot longer to paint the orange sections than I would like.  The cad. red medium tends to overtake any other colors I uses, in particular that yellows.  I have to put gobs of yellow on because if even a touch of the cad. red touches the yellow, the power of the yellow diminishes rapidly and turns into orange.  That’s okay if I’m trying to make more orange; it’s a problem when I want more of the yellow to show.  Anyway…it’s showing me where I need to practice more and learn how these paints work together.

These two areas are opposite the triangle frame and chevron I painted yesterday.

Close up of orange frame and chevron

It took me about an hour to paint these two orange frames.  Now that I’m wanting a smoother texture to these areas it takes longer to get a good blend between the cad. red medium, cad. yellow, and dioxazine purple.

Close up of orange frames

Here’s the full view.  Of the oranges, the upper right section of orange is now done as are the two orange triangle frames and chevrons.   I’m expecting to complete the 6 orange sections by day 74.  That’s the plan anyway.

Full View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Yeah!  I’m back!  I took back my power of the fear of continuing to paint this mandala.  It was one of those things where I let myself lack confidence in my ability to paint.  When I realized that even if I “ruined” it, I could just paint over it…acrylics is wonderful that way.

Okay so today I continued in the orange sections.  When I painted the first layer of orange, I mostly just dabbed the paint on giving it an impressionistic look.  For some reason, I feel the need to paint a smooth clean layer of paint for the second coat.

In this photo you can see the smoother looker to the diamonds and the impressionistic look to the bottom orange frames, which have yet to be re-painted.   I’m using cad. red medium, cad. yellow, and dioxazine purple.

Orange Diamonds

And here’s the completed orange frame around the blue triangle along with the orange chevron (book) shape.

Orange triangle and chevron

And the full view.   Tomorrow I’ll continue with painting some orange sections.

Full View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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