Mandala Monday – Dearing Wang: How To Draw 8 Phases Of The Moon

Continuing with Dearing Wang’s video tutorials (aren’t these great?) on drawing mandalas, today we are looking at how to draw an image called 8 Phases of the Moon. This is a complex image so he has broken it down into 4 videos. I hope you enjoy them. At the bottom of the page you will find a link to a free pdf of the image that you can color.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

This pattern is available as pdf file at: http://www.dearingdraws.shopdare.com/downloads/8-phases-of-the-moon-free-mandala-colorsheet-pdf/

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

Mandala Monday – Mandala Stones: How to Paint Mandalas on Stones

If Facebook and Pinterest are any indication, painted stones are extremely popular, particularly mandala stones. I took a look at YouTube to see if there were any tutorials on how to paint mandalas on stones and rocks. Here is what I found. Enjoy!

 

Simple Mandala Stone by Zendoodle Art

 

Stop motion mandala stone painting by Elspeth McLean:

 

 


 

I Sassi dell’Adriatico / Mandala drawing on stone by SehnazBac:

 

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

Mandala Monday and Music-Free Mandala to Color and Conspirare performing “Let The River Run”

Today I have both a mandala for you to color as well as an uplifting arrangement of “Let The River Run” by Carly Simon (arrangement by Craig Hella Johnson) and sung by the world renown choir, Conspirare.

First the mandala:

Mandala-017 from http://mandalasparapintar.blogspot.com/

Download a larger version to color at: http://mandalasparapintar.blogspot.com/2015/01/mandalas-para-pintar.html, then listen to this fabulous choir while you are coloring.

According to Youtube this is: “Conspirare performance of “Let the River Run” by Carly Simon (arrangement by Craig Hella Johnson) from the PBS special “A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert,” a production of KLRU-TV in association with Conspirare. Conductor, Craig Hella Johnson. Recorded live at Dell Hall, Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX, October 2008. Available on DVD and Grammy®-nominated CD (Harmonia Mundi) at http://www.conspirare.org.”

I have the great good fortune to know Craig Hella Johnson and, as someone trained as a choral director, can honestly say he is a genius at arranging choral music and a world class choral conductor. I hope you explore more of Conspirare’s music on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConspirareChoir/feed?spfreload=10.

To see Craig’s TEDxAustin talk, which I highly recommend, see my post: https://nwcreations.com/ted-talk-thursday-tedxaustin-craig-hella-johnson/

Enjoy!

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!