Drawing # 277. For the Year 2021.
By: The Great - Mr. George D. Patnoe! October 1, 2021. A Cross and Mandala Art Together as One, Touching but Separate. The Cross is the great symbol of Christianity in its true form. A Mandala Circle generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from outside to the inner core, through layers. A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, romanized: maṇḍala, lit. 'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ]) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing the attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Shintoism it is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shintoism, paradises, kami, or actual shrines.[1][2] (Taken off the web.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala Various Pencils, colored pencils, and inks, and markers too. These abstract drawings have become an exercise and experiment in using colors. Note: Many of you may be wondering why I am drawing the basic cross outline for my many current daily drawings. It is because my goal is to draw one drawing a day which started off with graphite pencils and colored pencils which led up to using markers which is what I am mainly using now, but that could change in the future for this year. With anything regarding the brain and muscles, a person must practice over and over and over again countless times to get better and to be more creative which is what I am doing every day this year with the current basic cross outline as a starting point. Of course, I will probably change from the basic cross to something else sometime in the future this year. But as you can see, each one is different in one way or another and so are the colors. Plus I learned that when the brain is drawing one way, like drawing a face or a tree or nude body, it is operating differently than when it draws an abstract drawing with colors because the brain is not focusing on everyday stuff to draw, but on completely different stuff to draw which is topped off when the brain is drawing in pure colors which is what I am doing currently. So there are creative and logical parts of the brain and mind that work when drawing 'made up' pictures or images with colors compared to drawing by copy drawing which many 'artists' do and which some artists do really good I might add. Moreover, I could actually feel my brain changing when I started to draw the basic cross outline with various differences and colors than when I was drawing by copy drawing, like drawing from a picture or photo or whatever. In any case, I hope you all enjoy viewing and looking at my artwork. Who knows, maybe one day they will be hanging in a museum somewhere in a big city. But on the other hand, people around the globe can see my artwork for free. And that is a good thing too!
