GLOWING WITH GRATITUDE

Glow Mandala -(Meditation Card series) -© Sue O'Kieffe 2008


Both Connie Rose and John Mora passed along this wonderful Gratitude with Attitude blog award to me. I am humbled by this recognition from my friends and artist peers.

Thalia at Audacia Muliebris has created three mandala templates inspired from the original work of Komra Moriko. For this I am grateful, and it is my pleasure to pass on this blog award for the time she took in developing these new configurations. I used one of Thalia's templates for today's mandala, which is the second of my meditation cards. Im not sure about the choice of meditation words...glow? radiate? shine? ...

Anne Christine Dennison commented about my use of black for the background of these cards. I like to use darker colors for my backgrounds to demonstrate light piercing the darkness. I love Anne's mandalas. Be sure to visit if you haven't already. Her work is bright and enchanting.

I am grateful to all of you who come by to read my blog and take the time to comment. Consider yourselves bestowed as well.

Have a glorious weekend.

Sue O'Kieffe
Sacred Circle Mandalas

NEW PURPLE MANDALA

Night Light Mandala - (Circles of Light series) - © Sue O'Kieffe 2008
source image: heather

I want to take photographs of flowers with my new camera that I have never shot before. I may need to go on a road trip to do that, because I'm pretty familiar with what blooms in my neighborhood. I did satisfy that longing yesterday with this photograph of what I think is heather. It seems I am still grooving on and being drawn to the expansiveness of purple light ... amethyst, crown chakra energies, intuitively searching out ancient information.

Thanks again to Thalia of Audacia Muliebris for creating the 13 spoke mandala template, a tricky configuration that is worthy of more of my attention.

I am excited about the new camera and the potential I am holding in my hands. Believe me, there was lots of oohing and aaahhhhing yesterday afternoon and evening as I focused and clicked and snapped my way into photographic bliss!

MORE MANDALA MAKERS

I do hope that any of you who read my blog might, from time to time, mosey on over to my mandala makers links that are posted on the right. Whenever I find other artists who revel in this art form, I try to acknowledge them both by posting on their blogs and adding a link to their site.
Of course, I must also acknowledge Komra Moriko as the grandmother to many of us who embrace this form, thank her for figuring out how to do it and blessing us with her tutorials, and give her gratitude for keeping her original website online since she put it up in the late 90's. Aho!

Most recently I have discovered two more creatrixes, Angela-Eloise at Blogickal and Thalia at Audacia Muliebris. Thalia even got extra creative and figured out how to do a few more permutations of the form, complete with a tutorial, and I am totally stoked. Thank goodness someone has some math genes here! Give this woman 5 gold pentagrams!

A while back I took some photographs of the gardens located in the town square, and I found a mystery bug resting in what I think is lady's mantle. If I am wrong and someone knows what it really is, won't you please let me know?

Anyway, I thought that this photograph was perfect for some alchemical transformation, and I am marking this mandala as probably the last one I will make from photographs I took with my dear 4 mpx camera. My new 8 mpx Canon A720IS has arrived, but I did not get out this weekend cuz it was pretty cold and very windy. I am taking the manual to bed with me tonight and see if I can figure some of the settings out before sleep takes over.

Green Bug Mandala - (Circles of Spring series) - © Sue O'Kieffe 2008

I can hardly wait to see what happens next!