Showing posts with label mandala kaleidoscope color coloring pattern graphic design free print printable moon quarter full half new earth sun meditate meditation relax relaxation stress relief journal journaling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mandala kaleidoscope color coloring pattern graphic design free print printable moon quarter full half new earth sun meditate meditation relax relaxation stress relief journal journaling. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
New Moon Mandala, March 4, 2011
Mandala of the Lunar Quarter - New Moon of March 4, 2011
We're buried in snow, ice, tissues and cough drops for the last few weeks. We're recovering from a flu after a cold after a flu, achoo! Just one of the joys of having a young child in public school. On a good note, my daughter split her resting time between playing on her DS and coloring mandalas - I need to scan in some of her work! Given a choice between a mandala and her DS, the mandalas win every time. I noticed she uses different colors when she's feeling sick, surprisingly much brighter colors than when she's well and energetic - perhaps it's her way of getting well? As always, right-click and "Save image as" so you can print the mandala out and color it. If you'd like to show off your finished work, be sure to upload it to my Flickr group (link at bottom of the page).
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
MOLQ - Full Moon, January 19, 2011
Mandala of the Lunar Quarter - Full Moon, January 19, 2011
Mother Earth wakes and takes one of those great-feeling, long, stretching yawns after waking, turning its face more towards the Sun with each passing day. Earth and Moon dance together in their eternal spirals. Under Earth's mantle of ice and snow, under a crust of browns and grays and decay, new life is already beginning to stir. There's a quickening in the air. Can you feel it?
As with any mandala, you should feel free to pick up pencil or pen and add to the printed mandala before you begin to color it. Perhaps the "leaf" shapes aren't truly leaves, perhaps they are eyes, or hands, or owls, or some other image that's just popped up in your thoughts. Perhaps the "triple moons" need to be connected, or divided, or further ornamented. What is the center of this mandala saying to you?
Mandalas aren't just about coloring in the shapes that exist within them. You can always save and print out a mandala again and again, and alter it in a myriad of ways. Work in pencil at first, then ink over the lines. Think about putting the date on the front or back of your work. Think about jotting a few notes, as well, relevant to your feelings at the time. Looking back after a year, five years, 10 years ... what will your mandalas tell you?
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