"Deco" Mandala - 03/17/07 - 1

As promised, here's a close-up view of the left side green section. As I stated in my last blog entry, I used all 6 percentages of cool gray and then olive green in the middle one and prussian green on the middle and back sections.


I completed the right side green section. Using the same colorations as the left side...except...I changed the direction of the light. My method (and there truly is one) is that I treat the mandala is if it is rotating and that we are viewing one spot on the page. Looking at the piece as it is still, will look a little off to someone who is knowledgeable about light and shadow.

As each section crosses our view it will look as if the light is always coming from the same direction. For instance if you always look at the 11 o'clock position of the mandala, and the mandala is spinning around, as each spot hit the 11 o'clock position the shadow and light will be occurring in the same place.

So in this piece, looking at the left side, it would appear that the light is coming from the top, creating a shadow below it. Looking at the right side, it is reversed. However, if you were to image the piece rotated 180 degrees, the left side (which was the right side), will have the light coming from above and the shadow below. See??? A method to the madness :)