Flower of Life Mandala – Part 2

In the past week I have become obsessed with drawing a perfect flower of Life Mandala. The form of this ancient mandala contains mathematical perfection. I found that to keep the precision I could not ignore what seemed like small slippages of my compass. If I allowed my lines not to match up on one round, it would become magnified on the next. As in life, one needs to realign often.

However, I have become used to allowing a certain amount of imperfection as artistic touch and so I am letting go of all of the perfectionism I have felt around this mandala in publishing it.

I have been working on a 18X24 sketch pad using a compass and colored pencils (see previous post). After drawing the outline with colored pencils I traced and colored with water color pens. I drew a central circle surrounded by six rounds of intersecting circles.