What’s the best Christmas gift you’ve given this year? I have to admit that handmade gifts are always my favorites, during this special year, you might have had a bit more time to work on them, or maybe like me, you just arrived on the 24th of December completely unorganized, missing some gifts and without …
If you are reading this, you probably like Mandala Art, and you might have heard about Feng Shui before. Feng Shui is an Eastern philosophical system that studies, from ancient times, the flow of energy to achieve a conscious occupation of space. Its objective is to generate positive and harmonic energy so that those who inhabit …
We already talked about mandala history and benefits in previous posts. But how do you choose the correct colors? Watercolors, colored pencils, markers… all of them? Personally, I think that markers are versatile and practical drawing instruments. A perfect example of this is the Posca markers. This brand, created in Tokyo, has been on the …
The word “mandala” comes from Sanskrit and literally means “circle”. These drawings are used in different cultures, such as Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and in some indigenous tribes. We find them as an artistic element or as a “tool” for the person to find himself. C.G. Jüng, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist, was one of the …
This will be a short, but much-needed post. If you just started adventuring into Mandala Art you are probably in desperate need of some inspiration, but it’s easy to find complicated designs that are hard to replicate on your own. In the next image, you can see some really easy mandala shapes for beginners: leaves, …
If you want to learn how to draw a Mandala, the first thing you need to know before starting is that you don’t need any drawing skills. These designs are particularly popular today because drawing them helps our relaxation. They are also known to make the energy present in the body flow better increasing serenity …