Clematis Pattern Mandala
Originally uploaded by randubnick
A couple of days ago, I published my photograph of clematis, posterized in Painter. Yesterday, I used that photo to create a pattern. Tonight I decided to see how the pattern looked when I used it with Painter's pattern pen. I just started making circular movements, and then decided to make a spiral. (That's harder than it sounds when you are drawing with a mouse. It took several attempts!) Then I decided to fill in the negative space with a second spiral, and that created a kind of natural mandala (circles within circles). This seemed like an appropriate image for a day in which I sometimes felt like I was running in circles. Seen from the right perspective, the circles become a mandala, and the day becomes, actually, quite beautiful.
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