DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - DRAWING THE DESIGN The pencil sketch Having drawn the basic grid for the mandala, the next lesson in the course was to make the pencil sketch. This gives you the chance to try out different ideas, and to correct mistakes, before committing the drawing…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - MAKING THE GRID FOR THE FINAL PROJECT We are now on to the two final units of the course on mandala drawing. Having done a lot of preparation, we are now ready to start the drawing that has been the ultimate destination of the…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - BEGINNER PRACTICE SHEETS The second part of the preparation unit continues with drawing practice. Having done the shading exercises, we could now move on to do some actual mandala drawing. Sheet 1 - mandala elements Lizzie, our teacher, had prepared some sheets for us…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - FURTHER SHADING PRACTICE After yesterday's set exercise to practise different methods of shading with the ink pen, I decided to add some of my own to the blank portions of the page. YouTube inspiration I have watched numerous YouTube videos on drawing with pens…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - MATERIALS AND SHADING EXERCISES At last we are starting to put pen to paper in this course! The first two units have been really interesting, though, with the introductions and learning about mandalas. I have really enjoyed the new experience of seeing them everywhere.…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - FINDING MANDALAS EVERYWHERE! Our next exercise at the beginning of this new course was to find mandalas in nature and in everyday life. Mandalas from things found in nature Veg prep One of the early exercises in this course is to look for mandalas…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - CREATE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS Having completed the online drawing course just in time for the end of the year, I am now ready to start a series of new courses from Domestika. Last year I subscribed for a year and was able to get twelve…
2024 GENERAL REVIEW As stated in the previous two posts, I have had to separate my annual end-of-year review into separate posts or the whole thing would be impossibly long! As it is, both the Art Course review and the general art review are pretty long. I'm hoping this post won't be so…
2024 Review - Art As usual, here is my end-of-year review. As before, I've separated out the art from the rest, as there is so much, and even so, this post is going to be very long! Online art course The most important art activity this year has been my participation in the…
END OF YEAR REVIEW OF THE ONLINE ART COURSE I was very happy to complete the art course before the end of the year. I began it in November 2023 so it was just over a year in completion. Nice to start the New Year with a clean slate and try and catch…
