Coming back to the process

I just started a Mandala webinar with Julia Weaver.  We have attendees from Japan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Oregon.  Years ago I bought Judith Cornell's book: "Mandala - Luminous Symbols for Healing" and "Drawing the Light from Within".  Julia is using the Mandala book as a reference for this course.  This last Monday was our first meeting and we were spending a lot of "sexy" time adjusting our software so that we could all see her desktop and images presented in her presentations.

We are using Prismacolor pencils on black paper.  The process is spiritual and fun!

Passage to Another Time

When I started on this painting I sat with no preconceived idea. I just put out a bunch of pigments and tempered them with the egg yolk medium and just started laying down color after color, hundreds and hundreds of tiny brush strokes heaped one upon the other....eventually something started to appear. The "portal" part of the painting was originally on a diagonal to the painting surface. The idea for the tree just came to me as I painted, and then I added in a background landscape from imagination.

"The Portal"
8" x 10" - egg tempera on 3/4" cradled hardboard
January - April 2008