Making Multiples - On a roll - or rather a Circle - Oh My

Shiny clear glass domes

Well, I am back at it again, making more and more of the pendants from my mandalas, Patricia's mandalas as well as the buddha/bottisatvas.   I decided to post my process here.  I have been uploading these on occasion to my facebook page and a friend asked if I was going to do a workshop.  Hmmm, who knows, but right now I am making them to sell, hoping to find stores and people who fall in love with these charming little amulets.

 Here are some of the domes with images glazed on, I love how they look all together.

All lined up and drying  in my studio, waiting for chains, or ribbons or whatever, lots of mandalas hoping for new homes and lovely ladies hearts to grace.

I think I have said this before, but there is something so comforting about creating multiples of things, lots of little circles of wholeness, waiting for someone's imagination to project on it.

 The one problem is organizing and sorting through all of these pendants....here they are in a jewelry display holder

This one is my full moon Spring Tree of Live Mandala, in a copper setting.  I am in love with the copper right now.  Although the photo I took of this amulet isn't the greatest, this is one of my favorite images.

 Butterfly Transformation Amulet.  I created this mandala when recovering from surgery.

Here are some of my new Buddha pendants in circle pendant trays rather than oval.  I am trying to simplify things by just working in the circle now.

Ta Da.... a close of up of one of the buddhas.  I love this one...
So that is what I have been up to and rather obsessed by lately.  Now to market them.  I have posted some in my etsy store, but am looking for real live people to buy them from me.

Want one?  

Or know of any stores that would like to carry this line of Amulets.

 Let me know.

 Ciao Caterina

Fall Mandala- Process of a Drawing....

About two weeks ago, myself and my working partner, Patricia Water's, led an Illuminated Mandala workshop, focusing on the change of the seasons, from Summer to Fall.  

We are both facilitators of the late Judith Cornell's Mandala Process.  The workshop was a wonderful day and I have shared the groups process in my last post.  I have finally finished my mandala and am sharing the process of the drawing here.  

This is my original drawing, using white prismacolor pencils on the black paper.

In this second image you can see how I add the scale of light (reversed shading) to the images on my mandala, illuminating the shapes with light.

  

 In this drawing I have begun to add color, in some cases going over the white and in other areas, leaving the white light uncolored.

 Each step of the way is primarily unplanned, and whenever I do something I don't particularly like, I go with it, letting it take me where the drawing wants to go.  Allowing it to change and evolve organically.

Here is the final pieces, a lot more subdued than the last image, but still illuminated.  The intention of this piece was release as well as trusting the process of life and change to guide me, as we move into the winter, the dark, the unknown of the cycle of life.

This mandala, along with many of my other mandala's will be available as a matted print on my etsy store, for purchase.  Patricia and I take these workshops on the road, so if you are interested please get in touch, here.  Our next scheduled Illuminated Mandala Seasonal workshop will be a New Years Intention Mandala Day in January of 2010. Please check our website at the Creative Arts Studio for updates on the details.