In my head, I think this was originally going to be something a bit different, but it ended up becoming this meditative dot mandala, and I don’t hate it!
I was trying to come up with something for the Craftlympics challenge in this season of Nerd Games, and one of my favorite events to watch is para biathlon, so I started with the idea of a target.
I was upset that I couldn’t find a compass to draw some concentric circles (I know I totally have one), so I ended up taping this smallish square (I think 10x10") canvas on my pottery wheel to help draw some circles before I started painting. (In retrospect, I should have just painted the circles while the canvas was on the wheel, but alas, I did it the less-efficient way.
Then, I just started from the middle and ad-libbed outward until it was mostly full. I painted in bits kver several days because my far-sightedness is finally catxhing up with me and these dots were making my eyeballs go a little batty!
Here are just some in-progress photos from when I remembered to take them.
I love that you used your pottery wheel to make the circles. Your patterns, color, and spacing of the dots are perfect! I’m impressed that you ad-libbed it!
This is killer. Its pretty inspiring seeing it. Would look cool as one of those repeating patterns that you could link up. Like on a big piece of fabric to make stuff with… or as a black light poster.
It looks gorgeous and so impressive! I admire your consitency and the evenness of the pattern. If I tried to freehand that it would look like a windshied, in a blizzard, with wiper blades on high .
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