Creative progress and growth of a painting
Day three
Mind Mandala
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I have decided to redo the color prism ring part of the mandala. I like the colors produced yesterday but they need to be applied correctly. Here I have mixed up a lighter shade of blue and already covered up the two sections on the right. Those on the left are how I left them last night. I will
have to do this with the red and yellow as well. |
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The next inner ring is going to be white light. I start defining the shape with a light gray. Later I
have plans of shading all of these individual sections to look as if
they were steps in an amphitheater you were looking down into. |
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The center will be a geometric flower with six petals reflecting the six chakras that help illuminate the seventh and highest chakra. |
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I have
three of the petals painted. They are true tertiary colors; colors consisting
of equal parts of primary and secondary colors. So it will be the blue
energy along with the green energy making the aqua petal in the flower. |
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The flower is finished ...But I still don't feel the prism ring. |
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I mixed up another batch of colors for the prism ring, this time more subtle and darker. This is how I thought I wanted it to look,but now that I'm looking at it ...something's missing. Often when I paint something right on it has a familiar quality to it, like a friends face. This seems to be a little more elusive. Perhaps I need a new approach, Maybe I'm stuck on this because I'm trying to force it to be what I want and not what it is.Lets take a look at it after a night of sleep. |
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