New Mandala

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Here is the other blue/green mandala I made for an order I'm delivering this morning before work, along with the massage therapy mandala I posted the other day. This is the one where the customer requested 3 specific elements, in this order of preference: horses, music and sailboats. To fit them all in, I had to go to a 6" x 8" frame instead of the 5" x 5" frame she and I talked about. She didn't ask me to use the name of her farm on it but I think she'll be very pleased to see that and won't mind that I'll have to charge her a tiny bit more.

This thing was so labor intensive. And besides being a new design, the first of anything takes forever. This is pretty much all I worked on all day.

I thought the musical notes would be easy, but they weren't. I'm pretty happy with them now though - the tiny ones in the center are made of a tiny paper dot - and stitching! I already had the 2 horse punches. And one incarnation of this thing had tiny sailboats around the outside edge. They looked really stupid next to the horses though - the scales were so different - so I pretty much started over.

I sure love Google Images - you can find anything there, for reference. Like sailboats.

My customer doesn't know that I finished this one for her so I can't wait to surprise her. Then, in an email last week she also ordered another one, for a friend's birthday - with images of sailboats and photography. I have an idea for piecing together a camera with a rectangle and a couple of circles.

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