Hey I'm Alicia, an artist who really hasn't been feeling social media lately (especially IG and FB) so I thought I'd try Mastodon out and see if I like the simplicity of it more. I think I picked the perfect server, since I'm much more likely to be in my sunny garden than anywhere else. :BlobCat_Love: 🌞
The first large mandala piece is getting wrapped up for shipping today. Approx 22" across in acrylics and Culture Hustle metallics on jigsaw-cut half inch finish plywood. 16fold radial symmetry with 32 total radial points, 14 steps from center to edge not counting the metallic subdivisions.
I'm delivering this recently completed gift piece today, a kind of loose #mandala in the form of a succulent plant. Three layers of jigsaw cut wood, screwed and glued together, painted with acrylics and sealed. 10"/35cm across and boy howdy that's the last piece that small I do for a bit. So much fiddly small-brush detail! But it fits the aesthetic of the recipient.
This layered woodcut mandala technique will be my ongoing focus for awhile once I wrap up current work #MastoArt#painting
For those who feel a need for a little protection, may this energy reach you. 💚 Nothing evokes Protection for me more than holly. An altar of stone, holly in three colours, and ivy. Should I have worn gloves? That would have been ideal. 😌 But I didn’t know I was making this until I started making it.
This one is from a walk in the park, where I took a photo of grass with raindrops on it.
I made a 42-fold, rotating mandala from it, used that in another 8-fold mandala and mixed it into a color filter.
The first video directly encoded in my video mixer using gstreamer-rs.
... and sure, it was the wrong container format, not working with Mastodon so I had to recode it, because I already closed the art session.
Too many hard coded variables to publish the code yet. But it doesn't look messy at all / very much.
I haven't shared any of my coloring pages before because I am self-conscious about being a middle aged woman getting into coloring but it's very calming for the nervous system. My sister got me the newest mandala book by #colorit and a great gel pen set. I usually plan out the colors better but I wanted to try as many colors as I could. #adultcoloringbook#adultcoloring#postConcussionSyndrome#mandala