green shafts of light

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Originally uploaded by calypso Dragon 13.

This is another Photoshop creation. The background that looks like perspective lines is from a photo by OscarN at flickr.com.

The other components of the image are a simple sunburst mandala that I projected onto a cylinder in a 3D software that I work with. I manipulated that .jpg file within Photoshop.

five-footed flower mandala

five-footed flower mandala
Originally uploaded by calypso Dragon 13.

This was an experiment in defining a "petal" from a photo of a nude woman lying in a bed with sheets draped around her. Her foot formed the center of the flower.

I then (clumsily) transfomed the petals around the center of the flower mandala and played with filters and gradients and layers.

Here's the result. If you look closely, you can indeed see the five feet of the center of the flower mandala.

[Note to myself: next time, when making the initial cut, be more careful about creating sharp corners. These petals lack soft, organic-looking curves.]

Cat's head, whiskers & all (mandala 8-2-2)

mandala 8-2-2
Originally uploaded by calypso Dragon 13.

This is a three-axis mandala.

I have distorted it with a filter in Photoshop. S says it looks like a cat's head, whiskers and all.

I like the sense of movement in the middle of the mandala.

I was also pleased with the end results of the background color.

Here is how it started out. I think it looks rather like a Ouija-board pointer or some type of game puck.

Ojo de Dios (mandala 7-3)

mandala 7-3
Originally uploaded by calypso Dragon 13.


I always have mixed feelings about the composition of this mandala. In some ways, I like its simplicity. In other ways, it feels overly simplistic.

I can tell you it evokes a southwestern Native American feel for me. The four directions of the wind, the four points of a compass ... I see those in this mandala. In my flickr account, I mentioned an Ojo de Dios, an "eye of God." It's a creation many of us made when we were kids at summer camp. You take two sticks, cross them and begin weaving yarn around their intersection. That's what I remember of an Ojo de Dios.


Like this one from an artist named Jay Mohler. See his website here.

Colored Glass

Aren't these thumbnails, as a collection, gorgeous?

This is a compilation of colored glass shots taken by a photographer I know only as Tejana. Tejana posts on flickr. I have modified it slightly, cutting and pasting here and there.

Slightly late: Signs of Spring

 
Signs of Spring

Kind of a mandala?

Title it "Sundial in Fuchsia Time."

intertwined

Here's a mandala I created a while back. I have altered it somewhat in PHotoshop.

It's actually supposed to be two five-pointed stars intertwined with one another like a Celtic knot.

Whaddaya think?

A mandala for today

Here's a mandala I created in Photoshop. I love those warm intense colors.

May -- the time for dragons to return?

I am going to try posting some of my images here at DragonPix again. Zoto is making this a much easier process.

The Dragon has flown the coop . . .

While I appreciate Blogger's efforts to let people post images to their weblogs, I am finding working with Hello.com too cumbersome.

For that reason, and that reason alone, I am moving my images to Merry Dragon, where I hope you will come see me.

Mandala 7 -- variation 3

Mandala 7 -- here they are overlapped.

I am pleased with this one. 

Mandala 7 -- another vantage point

Working in the 3D world that I do, this is simply a .jpg from another vantage point 

A new look for Mandala 7

Here is Mandala 7 projected onto the face of a cylinder 

Mandala 7 with color

Mandala 7 with conte crayon filter 

Mandala 7

Mandala 7 is a symmetric, four-axis design. It has a slightly Native American, perhaps Navajo(?) feel to me.
 

Mandala 6 with some color

Mandala 6 after a little Photoshop play. 

Mandala 6 -- Dry Brush

Here is a variation on Mandala 6 again experimenting with the wonders of Photoshop. I believe I applied a water paper filter, first and then a dry brush filter. I like the batik-like look of the result. 

Mandala 6

I believe this is the first five-armed mandala that I have posted on this blog.

I struggled with this one, initially using only arcs, trying to achieve a design that had some "flow" to it. I finally resorted to some splines to get the shapes that I wanted. The "bell-shaped" curves on the perimeter of the mandala are splines. Also, if you look at the "rose" shapes in the center, they aren't perfectly circular. I purposefully put some "flats" in them for interest. The flats are achieved by having two arcs come in non-tangent to one another; that is, not at 0 or 180 degrees, but something close to that.

Overall, I struggled with this one and I think the result reflects that. Ah well, better luck next time. 

Mandala 5

Here's another design based on the number seven. I particularly like the flower-like petal design in the middle. As I worked, it evolved and emerged. What a nice surprise!