“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
” 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.”
According to TED.com: “Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark — and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.”
“In his day job, Jared Ficklin makes user interfaces at frog design. As a hobby, he explores what music looks like … in light, in shapes, in fire.”
“Jared Ficklin is a Senior Principal Design Technologist at frog, where he builds user experiences for clients, playing with interactions including touch and multi-touch, and applying physics to enhance the user experience. A passion for music and making things introduced him to the hobby of sound visualization, which has led him on occasion to play with fire. (As Flash on the Beach puts it, ‘Jared Ficklin’s sonic experiments stood out for their individuality, drama and casual disregard for health and safety.’) Every March in Austin, Texas, Ficklin organizes the frog party, a collective social experiment for a few thousand people attending SXSW Interactive. It’s a form of playful R&D for social technology. And he has spent 10 years helping fund, design and build quality free public skateparks for Austin as part of the Austin Public Skatepark Action Committee. “
New ways to see music (with color! and fire!) by Jared Ficklin
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”
Mandalas coloring pages for adults with what appears to be hundreds of mandalas to choose from. (I didn’t actually count them, but there were page after page of mandalas)
Zentangle coloring pages for adults. Again not strickly mandalas, but many Zentangle artists create mandalas using Zentangles.
Here are just a few examples of the mandalas they have on their site.
Really stunning mandalas, don’t you think?
They also have a selection of tutorials on coloring techniques, Adult coloring techniques and tutorials. This is what they have to say about these tutorials:
“Do you want to master new adult coloring techniques, discover expert tips to improve your skills in this art ?
Here are several technical tutorials, as well as “step by step” courses prepared by some of the most assiduous users of our website.
Thanks to these secrets revealed, you will have the opportunity to get more satisfaction from the practice of this leisure.
Felt, colored pencil, watercolor … Whatever your technique, here you will find the right information to optimize your technique.”
They also have tutorials on Zentangles and Anime. There is a huge world of coloring to explore. I hope you will use this resource often. Enjoy!
For those of you who like to color online I refer you to several blog posts I have done on this topic including:
” 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.”
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