Trusting the path mandala part 2

Hello,

Part 2 of the lesson was to create a windrose using maps.





I started with a watercolorwash background. I had these cheap tubes already for years which of course meant that most of them were as hard as rock. 
I am just wondering wether you can use them as pans instead? 
Maybe I need to retrieve them out of the garbage? 
Or is that a bridge to far?
I did order a replacement Kuretake set after seeing Jamie's lesson last week.

Next came cutting the shapes out of maps,

the heart was a happy little cutting accident, that coincidentally fits perfect with the theme

Trusting the path,

Following your path,

Following your heart.

After the heart accident many more accidents followed, 

the one more happier then the other.

Didn't like the doodling on my compass, so covered them up again

The lines are not all oriented in the same way,tried to fix that but failed hence the 2 darker lines, not so happy accident

Didn't like the doodling in my 2nd circle either so pulled it back off and glued it back down, like the color that came of from underneath, yet another happy accident.

Here is the double spread with both mandalas

2 lessons out of the 5 completed.

Trusting the path mandala part 1

Hello,

I've finished part 1 from Jennifer Lee's Wanderlust class.





This included a whole bunch of circles

which I played around with 

until the arrangement was pleasing to me

I think I liked it better without the outlining though

On to part 2 now.

22-28/365somethings2018

Hello,

I am on the one hand sad because it is already sunday evening which unfortunately means the weekend is almost over, but on the other hand I am very excited to share with you my next 7 icads in the series.

This week I took a little detour before finding my true inspiration.

I first continued with the collagetheme I started last week

I choose 7 focal images and played with different composition, but for some reason I found it hard to collage on such a small surface, 
so I swithed gear and glued down gelli prints on my cards

Next I grabbed a pencil, my posca paint pens and my new favorite black pen, a uni-ball, and went to town with some groovy drawings:

Needless to say that I am very happy with my new additions to my collection.
I am having so much fun with these icads, especially loving the size that encourages me to actually create 365 of them
and like Tammy Garcia aka daisy yellow loving the last one the most until the next one lol 😂

Relax

R=relax in the alphabet of happiness.

Refuse to let worry and stress rule your life,

and remember that  things always have a way of working out in the end.

Coloring mandalas is considered to be relaxing,

so I attempted to draw one and colored it in with a combination of inktense pencils and staedtler triplus fineliners.

I stamped the robot with his dog and colored them with my bright set of spectrum noirs.

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To me it looks like the robot is comforting his dog and saying just relax, don’t worry.