Mandala Monday – Another 5 Links to Creating Mandalas

Two of my most popular posts are Mandala Monday – 10 Links to Creating Your Own Mandalas and Mandala Monday – 5 More Links to Creating Your Own Mandalas, so I’ve sought out even more links to creating mandalas and here they are:

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Collage Mandala by Kathryn Costa

  1. Mandala Collage – A post by Kathryn Costa on how to create a collage background and build a mandala using a grid.
  2. Henna Inspiration with Mother Henna by Megan Warren – An interview  with Kara LC Jones (Mother Henna) about how she incorporates Henna designs into her mandala making.
  3. Jingle, Jingle, How To Henna a Tambourine – Expanding on the post above,  Kara aka Mother Henna, gives us step by step instructions on how to create a henna mandala on a tambourine.
  4. Introducing Kaleidoscope Kreator™ 3 software – A video showing you how to use an inexpensive PC software product, Kaleidoscope Kreator to create mandala images to use for quilting, crafting, scrape booking and more.
  5. The Mandala Healing Kit: Using Sacred Symbols for Spiritual and Emotional Healing – Spiral-bound – Box set by Judith Cornell – Arthor of several books about mandalas, Judith Cornell has created a complete kit for mandala making, including a 96-page workbook with 24 exercises; a guided audio CD of Dr. Cornell’s most effective meditations; mandala stencils and special paper; and quality colored pencils and gel pen. Available from Amazon.

That should keep you busy!

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

TED Talk Thursday – Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper

According to TED.com: “With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.”

“Béatrice Coron has developed a language of storytelling by papercutting multi-layered stories. Coron’s oeuvre includes illustration, book arts, fine art and public art. She cuts her characteristic silhouette designs in paper and Tyvek. She also creates works in stone, glass, metal, rubber, stained glass and digital media.”

Enjoy this unique woman and her beautiful creations.

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!

TED Talk Thursday – Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist

According to TED.com: “With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist — from cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and son to father.”

“Raghava KK began his career in art as a newspaper cartoonist, and the cartoonist’s bold line — and dead-on eye for truth — still powers his art. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, film and iPad art, always linked by his challenging opinions on identity, conformity, gender, celebrity, ceremony. (He even views his lavish Indian wedding as a piece of performance art.)”

Enjoy this interesting life journey.

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!