Hurrah! Grab some pens or pencils and maybe some water and paint if that is your jam and print this mandala for your colouring delight! Print lots and share with friends over lunch, a coffee or just because you are a nice person and what to colour with some pals. Click here to get the mandala printable. Enjoy! Happy Monday x
As we are hurtling towards the Christmas period at great speed with a glass in one hand and wrapping paper in the other, I thought you might enjoy a coloring sheet. Feel free to print it off and grab your pens or paints or crayons or all of the above and relax for a few minutes and colour some lovely stars. Click here to get the printable or on the above image. Here are a few ideas for your coloring- Make all the stars a different colour. Only colour or paint around the stars and leave them white. Start with dark colours and work your way out from the middle using lighter and lighter colours and create an ombre star mandala. Make a different pattern in each star. Join all the stars together with a line then colour them in. Print the sheet onto card stock, cut it up and make a puzzle from it. Print onto card stock, fold in half and give as a card (I did that, they are cute ‘coloring in’ …
Halloween mandala! Betcha didn’t see that coming did you!? Okay, maybe a little bit as I drew 100 of them for ‘The 100 Day Project’ earlier in the year. I took a few ‘along the way’ pictures so that you can see how I made this mandala, the main thing is to use your imagination, don’t think about it too much and go for it! You could make one with Halloween stickers or stamps too. To start the mandala I usually make a pencil outline. For this one, I grabbed my ruler and drew lines which all crossed at the same point in the centre but I didn’t measure, so I ended up with uneven sections for my Halloween mandala. Then I used my compass and made some circles of different sizes getting bigger and bigger from the centre. This is your base to fill in the sections you have created. When I have drawn mandalas in the past, I normally start in the centre, but to be honest I couldn’t think of anything for …
Today I am going to show you how I made this mandala. Hurrah! I have been enjoying drawing a few mandalas this month and I have been really surprised at how effective they are once they are all done. Working a step at a time really makes the layers work together and flow outwards beautifully. Like most things, one step at a time works best! Previously I have been making the base lines by measuring with ruler, compass and a protractor which works great and I have loved the mandalas I have made like that. I also wanted a nice quick and easy way to get started on one without all the equipment, so I just drew out the basic lines – horizontal, vertical and the two diagonals, the only rule being that they must cross in the middle. This way I can make a mandala anywhere, all I need is pencil and paper. I drew in the circles, not worrying one jot about them being perfectly round or spaced apart. In fact I …
Clare Davis Etheridge 