Fabulous quilts based on mandalas. I immediately had to buy a sketch pad/compass/ruler and start designing my own. Mandalas are found in different forms all over the world. For thousands of years different cultures have created designs in this circular/symetrical format. From Tibetan Buddhist sand paintings to designs on Islamic mosques. After a few mandala style quilts I moved on to other things. About four or five years ago this format started coming to my attention again and I started doing mandala paintings using acrylic paint. I use a lot of gold metallic and gold dimentional paint. Think this style appeals to my obsessive/'can't stand to be messy' nature :] This one is 80cm sq. I haven't done any painting for about six months. I've been getting back to quilting.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
mandala paintings
The first time I heard the word 'mandala' was in 1984. We were on holiday in Beechworth and called into a quilt shop. Katie Pasquini's book Mandala had just arrived from the US.
Fabulous quilts based on mandalas. I immediately had to buy a sketch pad/compass/ruler and start designing my own. Mandalas are found in different forms all over the world. For thousands of years different cultures have created designs in this circular/symetrical format. From Tibetan Buddhist sand paintings to designs on Islamic mosques. After a few mandala style quilts I moved on to other things. About four or five years ago this format started coming to my attention again and I started doing mandala paintings using acrylic paint. I use a lot of gold metallic and gold dimentional paint. Think this style appeals to my obsessive/'can't stand to be messy' nature :] This one is 80cm sq. I haven't done any painting for about six months. I've been getting back to quilting.
Fabulous quilts based on mandalas. I immediately had to buy a sketch pad/compass/ruler and start designing my own. Mandalas are found in different forms all over the world. For thousands of years different cultures have created designs in this circular/symetrical format. From Tibetan Buddhist sand paintings to designs on Islamic mosques. After a few mandala style quilts I moved on to other things. About four or five years ago this format started coming to my attention again and I started doing mandala paintings using acrylic paint. I use a lot of gold metallic and gold dimentional paint. Think this style appeals to my obsessive/'can't stand to be messy' nature :] This one is 80cm sq. I haven't done any painting for about six months. I've been getting back to quilting.
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