I love these patterns that can be piled up on top of one another. To me this is just a seriously tangled mess! Another organic line doodle. I saw a large tangled peacock feather that was all curvy and flowing… I love it but I wasn’t sure it was something I would want to attempt. […]
Inspired by the below artwork by ashleyinzer on flicker these floral doodles are just quickie doodles during TV time with my husband.. Or while he plays xbox and I just sit beside.. No desire to be perfect just keeping the mind occupied! ijourney1018 {@} gmail {dot} com meandmyinkpen {@} gmail {dot} com About […]
I love making mandalas! I hate spending money! So instead I make my own tools whenever I can.. This one is awesome! I made a half circle stencil that has a center point, 5-10-20-30 degree marks.. The size is meaningless as long as the degrees are there and you use a long enough ruler lol.. […]
Just a few quickie mandalas in my current Sketchbook. I noticed the other day that I am getting close to finishing another book and decided to give it a look through.. I found three or four incomplete mandalas and then these finished ones. I am real bad about starting one on a serious note […]
Kaitlynn and I tried out this pattern today and really liked it! It reminds me of taffy though lol Here is the How To Video on YouTube! ijourney1018 {@} gmail {dot} com meandmyinkpen {@} gmail {dot} com About Me : Buy Me Coffee! : Get My Badge! My Projects : My Artwork Digital Bullet […]
A few weeks ago, I decided to give stamp carving a go since I was making Faux Midori Traveler’s Notebooks for all the girls in the family. I was so impressed with the one I made for Kaitlynn and myself, I decided they ALL needed one. But I wanted to stamp it with my ‘signature’ […]
I took photos of this one in stages as I went. I don’t always pencil them in first. But this one is actually quite large. This is my 11×14 sketchbook but the mandala itself is only about 8″… I’ll aim for 10 next time! So even after I’ve inked in a few layers, I don’t […]
These black canvases made me think of chalkboards (probably were meant to do so lol). I bought a set of two to try out.. Just very quickly threw down a messy mandala with some dotted swirls in the black edges.. From a distance it looks a lot like chalk because of the different depths in […]
This is just a random lotus doodle that I did while watching TV. I wanted to use it to point out something that’s pretty important to me. My style. I can and do occasionally complete a piece that has straight clean lines. But they feel so intense! These doodles (mandala or otherwise) that have the […]
So the last post showed Open Composition mandalas, These are Closed composition mandalas (almost lol). Closed means that the entire piece of artwork is framed within the paper. The top one is pushing the limits of the edge but the others qualify lol. I tried dammit! ijourney1018 {@} gmail {dot} com meandmyinkpen {@} gmail […]
Open composition is when the elements of the artwork go beyond the edges of the page. With mandalas, I love when they come from one corner or another of the page… Or when they burst so large from the center that they go beyond the page completely.. These mandalas or doodles or drawings aren’t that great […]
In December we took mom to see Hollywood and I doodled there and back.. I finished the first one and began the second one on day one… I finished up the second doodle on day two. Those little circles were a trip on a moving train! The first day we took her to Hollywood and […]
I’ve had my Derwent Inktense pencils for a while, but I haven’t gotten to use them overly much. So I not only colored on this little mandaladoodle I’d done the other day, but I also made me a color chart to keep inside my Inktense tin so that I can see at a glance what color […]
Updated to remove broken links 9/2024 Mandalas are amazing and so much fun! I love doing them so much (either quick and fun ones or serious and detailed ones) that I decided to gather up some of the mandala tutorials that I used in my journey to learn how to do them. I am the world’s […]
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No matter what else I draw, the piles and mandalas seem to be the best at stress relief.. ijourney1018 {@} gmail {dot} com meandmyinkpen {@} gmail {dot} com About Me : Buy Me Coffee! : Get My Badge! My Projects : My Artwork Digital Bullet Journal Install Instructions My Shop On Etsy My Shop […]
