Dotting a mandala on Canvas.
Good day Steemians!
Friday is finally here and that means WEEKEND! Always gives me a happy feeling! Do you have any plans for this weekend? I do! I want to be lazy but I already know that I will be doing a lot of crafting! You see, I have this addiction of buying new stuff and that needs to be tried out!
I might need to buy a new room soon because I am getting way too much things yet I really need them of course! ((Laughs)) I do! You see, one can never have enough paint or brushes! Or paper and pencils or books for that matter! Anyways!
I have done it again! The dots are back!
Or they have never left!
I moved from stone to canvas!
I love dotting with paint on stones and I have been thinking about Christmas already! Yupp, I did! Am I going insane? Perhaps BUT.....I think this might be a really cool idea! I want to make matching stones with canvas to give away with Christmas to those I love!
So this week I started this up. This is my first one and I do like the end result! I am learning more and more and I might be ready to go to the next step, a level higher! The patterns you can create are endless and some really look so amazing! I really want to learn how to do those but I have to start easy!
The progress pictures.
I stared by painting the canvas black and used a ruler to find the middle!
For this mandala I mixed soft colors. I used white, blue, pink and purple. I started in the middle and worked my way to the corners. The small dots are made with a dot pen and the bigger ones are made with the back side of a pencil!
I slowly started to add more dots from the middle to the outside. At times, I really had to take a break because I wanted to dot too fast and the paint does take time to dry! When I get excited I often want it to finisgh way too fast! So, I drank some coffee and ate a few pink cookies!
At first I wanted to fill the whole canvas with dots but I changed my mind because I liked the black color as well with the rest! I wonder if others find it hard as well to know when to stop with a creation? If you have any tips, please let me know!
I added a few more white dots and made sure the middle lines were all covering the canvas to the ends. I am really happy that I stopped with the dots. I have seen a few amazing works totally covered in dots but I think this one is perfect the way it is.
Now all I need is to find a place to keep it safe! You see, I made this as a present yet... I kinda like it myself! If I don't hide it, it might end up on my own wall!
Thank you for reading my post!
Best wishes
@poeticsnake
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Great work as always! you're such an awesome steemian!
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Again I'm falling behind following your art. Life in the way, again.
Last post you had small back stones. Progressing to canvas looks great.
Why not a huge slab of stone next time? Line a piece of granite or flagstone? Use outdoor paints and you can display your work outside your front door.
Whatever you decide, keep on doing it. Hugs.
Joe
@joe.nobel
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PS thanks for the recent vote :)
Oh, and I gave your friend a full upvote. Hope she gets a new camera soon.
Cool mandala, really mesmerising :D
I really like how you added smaller dots in the big ones. Makes it a little more complex :)
Oh I love it! The reason I wanted to get creative again last year was because I saw these amazing dot paintings of an artist over there.. But I didn't have the material and space for it, so I bought some markers and sketchbooks to draw some other things..
I still love the dotting art though, but I guess my boyfriend will go nuts if I come home with painting stuff too :-)