Inspired by Leaves, some kind of Mandala

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My Creative Mindfulness Class with Casey on Mather was on Monday. The entire month of October is themed on Leaves. 

This was a fun project, to cut out leaves from decorative papers (I used a bit of everything) and create a Fall Mandala. Well I chose Fall since the tones of my hand-painted papers were in golds, browns, and greens. I threw in some orange Cardstock for a solid and used a cardstock brown background

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You can see the paper cutouts to the side and some of the papers I used.

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Simple materials and open instructions always makes a project fun. We were encouraged to add decorative elements. I still may work some more on the background to make it darker.

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These are the markers I've used so far. First time using my Artists Loft Acrylic Markers from Michaels. Nice saturated color and dried quickly, tip is a bit mooshy. 

My Alcohol markers and some metallic markers....and a trusty Sharpie. I really need to buy a couple of super wide ones.

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An interesting direction was to fold and mount the leaves for a 3D effect. 

Since I chose some patterned papers, I did limited designs on those.

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This class was only an hour but I puttered for another 40 minutes after class...still thinking about darkening the background.

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I cheated a bit and measured out a circle underneath all this to maintain a good balance with my pieces. And I think that was a good idea. I had planned to use not necessarily balanced pieces...so at least having them in correct alignment helped ot keep this very measured. Again, I ended off the paper, so displaying this will require some sort of border or expansion of this piece.

Great idea for kids and just for fun. I think I will use this as a display piece for the season.

What sort of Art

 have you been doing for FALL?

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