"Deco" Mandala - 03/15/07

I started the left side green section. It took me a day before I could even start it. I struggled with how exactly to color it. For the first time in a long time I was afraid to ruin one of these. Thoughts like "what if the colors I use clashes with the rest of the piece"..."what if it looks like crap"...yada yada yada. I spent most of my session of "coloring" on 3/14 practicing what I would put in this section.

I ended up by using all 6 prismacolor cool grays to create the gradient from dark to light and then overlaying the whole section with olive green. Using the colorless blender helped smooth it out and gave it more of a brushed metal effect or the look of a tightly woven material. It's easier to see up close. In a future blog, I'll include a close-up photo of this section.