I have slowly been working on the mandala that I started at our Intention Setting Mandala Day last Sunday. I often work in bits and pieces, and the mandala process suits this way of creating very well. I realized long ago that it can be hard for me to carve unlimited time for doing art, so by leaving my work out, I am able to sit with it for 20 minutes or more at a time, and slowly allow my work to evolve.
The essence emerged at the workshop and I am always amazed at how a little bit of drawing over a consistent time period grows slowly, strongly and steadily.
This is where my mandala was on Sunday...I was placing my attention on balance, in many areas of my life, body, spirit, heart and mind.
I realized that I wanted this to use a rainbow palette and let each one of the colors blend into the other.
Letting a sense of loving acceptance surround my intentions and be what balances me as I move through my life in the coming year.
I love how each color changes the energy and brings more life and vibrancy to the image.
Letting the energy of compassion for self and others radiate out into the world.
This is as far as I have gotten today. I look forward to finishing it soon. With a series of hopefully big rain storms coming into northern California in the next days, I will lose myself in drawing while it rains. I love to do art when its raining. And the ongoing work on a mandala is one of the joys of life.
What a wonderful way to start the New Year. MOre to come..
