Project Pack 23 Mandala

I’m still enjoying my explorations shading using only brown ink. This mandala is inspired by the tangles shown in Project Pack 23 (through day 9 only). It was a very interesting process to try to adapt whatever tangles came up each day into a complex mandala string which I had preprinted on 8x8 inch watercolor paper. It took me several days to complete, all shaded with sanguine FB Pitt brush pen.

Here’s a step-out:

The interesting thing was that I tried to create the mandala with a bit less symmetry, that is, some parts of the mandala are not perfectly mirrored. I’m not sure if I like the result or not, but it was a fun process. Here are some other closer views:

There was definitely some adapting required to fit certain tangles into the skinny areas of the mandala. This is one of the largest pieces I have ever tangled, the final piece more or less the size of an opus tile.

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