Continuing on our recent theme of how to create mandalas, today we have a video by Linda Phillippi (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQuhhuY8-F5RS6WPID6jILQ) on her technique. We have been looking a computer generated mandalas in the past few weeks. Now we’re returning to more traditional painting techniques.
Of this video Linda says “The painting of an acrylic mandala, in brief, step by step. I use a very simple pattern for my beginner students, and here are the steps we go through to learn the techniques that I teach. Accompanied by my favorite musician Antion with his song Kali Durga from his album “One in the Goddess”. Please, come paint with me.”
Enjoy this step by step video on painting a mandala with acrylic paint by Linda Phillippi.
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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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