Mandala Monday – How to paint dot mandalas with Kristin Uhrig- #21 Candy Spiral

by | May 21, 2018 | Art, Creating Mandalas, Dot Painting, Mandala Monday, Mandala Stones, Mandalas, tutorial

The tutorial for today is How to paint dot mandalas with Kristin Uhrig- #21 Candy Spiral. We have already seen several of her videos in previous weeks, How to paint rock mandalas #4- Christmas design by Kristin Uhrig, How to Paint Dot Mandalas #30 – The Mermaid by Kristin Uhrig and How to paint rock mandalas #5- Rainbows by Kristin Uhrig which you might enjoy as well. I would also recommend her tutorial on tips and tools, How to Paint Dot Mandalas – Tools and Tips by Kristin Uhrig.

Here is what Kristin says about this tutorial:

“This tutorial will show you how to paint a spiral dot mandala on a 3 inch stone. It is intermediate in difficulty, due to the small size of the dots.’

“Tools used:
Pittsburgh Transfer Punch set (Amazon)
Essence manicure stylus dotting tool (Amazon)
Clay doll sculpting tool, smallest size point (Ebay)
Rustoleum Triple glaze clear acrylic spray
Flat edge- small paintbrush
Tape measure
Charcoal white pencil”

“Paints used: Martha Stewart acrylic: Pollen, Marmalade, Fuchia, Indigo, Mother of Pearl
Golden Fluid acrylic Titanium white, Pyrrole orange, Magenta
FolkArt Colorshift Purple flash, Aqua Flash”

How to paint dot mandalas with Kristin Uhrig- #21 Candy Spiral

To see more of Kristin’s work go to:

Website: http://www.kristinuhrig.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtopaintRockMandalas/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinuhrig/

 

Kristin Uhrig- Candy Spiral” I have been on a journey to learn a new painting technique to relieve the stress brought on through a medical crisis with my husband’s cancer. . A camping trip resulted in a fine collection of smooth flat, round stones. They were the inspiration for learning to create dot mandala designs on rocks, and then late on canvas panels. I began making tutorials to share this adventure with others, so they could learn from my mistakes as well as my successes. My hopes that others will be encouraged to try something new, and creat beautiful lasting pieces of art that will bring them joy.”

 

 

I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

TED Talk Thursday – How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures by Fei-Fei Li

by | May 17, 2018 | Algorithms, Science, TED, TED Talks

According to TED.com: “When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: “cat,” “book,” “chair.” Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What’s next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes the state of the art — including the database of 15 million photos her team built to “teach” a computer to understand pictures — and the key insights yet to come.”

“As Director of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and Vision Lab, Fei-Fei Li is working to solve AI’s trickiest problems — including image recognition, learning and language processing.”

“Using algorithms built on machine learning methods such as neural network models, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab led by Fei-Fei Li has created software capable of recognizing scenes in still photographs — and accurately describe them using natural language.”

“Li’s work with neural networks and computer vision (with Stanford’s Vision Lab) marks a significant step forward for AI research, and could lead to applications ranging from more intuitive image searches to robots able to make autonomous decisions in unfamiliar situations.”

How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures by Fei-Fei Li

 

For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

Mandala Monday – How to paint dot mandalas with Kristin Uhrig #15- Red Dahlia

by | May 14, 2018 | Art, Creating Mandalas, Dot Painting, Mandala Monday, Mandalas, Painting mandalas

The tutorial for today is How to paint dot mandalas with Kristin Uhrig #15- Red Dahlia. We have already seen several of her videos in previous weeks, How to paint rock mandalas #4- Christmas design by Kristin Uhrig, How to Paint Dot Mandalas #30 – The Mermaid by Kristin Uhrig and How to paint rock mandalas #5- Rainbows by Kristin Uhrig which you might enjoy as well. I would also recommend her tutorial on tips and tools, How to Paint Dot Mandalas – Tools and Tips by Kristin Uhrig.

Here is what Kristin says about this tutorial:

“Though we will be painting on rocks again, soon, this tutorial on a 12×12 canvas will give you lots of practice “walking thte dots” in multiple rows to create flower petals. The dotting tools I used were a manicure stylus and RedHeart crystalite crochet hooks, available on Amazon.”

“Paints used: From Golden Fluid acrylics I used: Crimson Hue, Quinacridone red, Quinacridone Magenta,Phthalo green, green gold, Titanium white and iridescent pearl. From Martha Stewart I used: Habanero high gloss, Mother of Pearl, Meyer Lemon From Americana: Turf green, Bluegrass green, Sour apple, Purple sunset.”

How to paint dot mandalas with Kristin Uhrig #15- Red Dahlia

To see more of Kristin’s work go to:

Website: http://www.kristinuhrig.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtopaintRockMandalas/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinuhrig/

 

Kristin Uhrig #15- Red Dahlia” I have been on a journey to learn a new painting technique to relieve the stress brought on through a medical crisis with my husband’s cancer. . A camping trip resulted in a fine collection of smooth flat, round stones. They were the inspiration for learning to create dot mandala designs on rocks, and then late on canvas panels. I began making tutorials to share this adventure with others, so they could learn from my mistakes as well as my successes. My hopes that others will be encouraged to try something new, and creat beautiful lasting pieces of art that will bring them joy.”

 

 

I look forward to your thoughts and comments!