Mandalas

I Am the Diva Challenge #380 The Challenge: Use a circle as your string. Happy new year everyone! For this challenge The Diva created a spundala and tangled on it. I use software to create my tangles and the software equivalent to a spundala is a radial gradient. So, for this challenge I created a

I Am the Diva Challenge #379 The Challenge: Create a holiday tile. Happy holidays everyone. I hope you are enjoying the season. In the holiday spirit, I have created a blinking image. I usually use software, Inkscape and Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, to create my tiles. One reason I create them this way is because Inkscape

I Am the Diva Challenge #378 The Challenge:  Use the tangle 123 O’Leary. 123 O’Leary is an interesting tangle. It is a lot like Coil. Just this weekend I spent time figuring out how to draw Coil in the round. So, for this challenge, I drew 123 O’Leary in the round and used red and

I Am the Diva Challenge #377 The Challenge:   Use the tangles Fengle and Poke Root. I have never used Fengle before. Be that as it may, here is my entry.

I Am the Diva Challenge #372 The Challenge:  Give Dewd a whirl. I had no idea what to do with Dewd, but I do like what I finally came up with. The background is one of my favorites, but I have not had an opportunity to use it lately. I created the tile in Inkscape

Joey’s Weekly Challenge #216 The Challenge: Finish my tile. Start with the pattern Friendship. Make it front and center.

Boy was I disappointed this Monday when I read that Joey was no longer going the post challenges. But after 222, I understand. I tried to post my thanks to her on her website, but for some reason I am unable to post to any Blogger site. So, Joey, if you read this, thanks for

Joey’s Weekly Tangle Challenge #222 The Challenge: Finish my tile. Start with the pattern Maryhill. Make it front and center. Maryhill begged to be a mandala, so I obliged. The outer ring represents real growth for me as an artist. I have never been able to successfully achieve the effect before.

You can never go wrong with a mandala. This one uses the patterns: Retro, Jaxs, Abeko, and Disco.

With this tile I experimented with using a gradient background combined with shadows to create an iridescent effect. Notice the pattern that runs through the middle — it is one that I created named Latain.