Quandary Orchid Class

Last Thursday Art Clubbers and I had a wonderful class on how to create this stunning mandala inspired by the Flower of Life - also known as Quandary in Zentangle world.

We started the class with a little introduction to this pattern and the recipe that forms the mandala. It is built over an isometric triangular grid.

We used a variety of different media, two fineliners, two colored pencils and gel pens over a watercolor background.

The mandala grows quite organically, and it’s incredibly relaxing to construct. We finished by adding a white glow all around it.

The same formula can also be used in black and white. It’s a really wonderful project to work on if you have very little time - work a little bit every day.

Here is the mosaic with the student work, I’m so incredibly impressed with what they did!

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