Evoking the spirit of Pewabic Pottery

Pewabic pottery began here in Detroit, during the Arts & Crafts movement of the early 20th century. See their link here.

Here's a photo of Pewabic tiles that I found at flickr by a fellow named donjoz:

In homage to spring

Cheering myself up

I've been in a bit of a funk this week. Brainstorming how to cheer myself up, I fired up Illustrator and spent some time creating this. I like how the spirals create a sense of movement amidst the revolving 3-square motif.

... another day in paradise

With all the cold, gray wintry days here in Michigan, I'm longing, longing, LONGING for warm, tropical colors.

Happy Winter Solstice!

Rosette with spotlights

Black-and-tan mandala

A beautiful web

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Originally uploaded by NaturKamera.

Red swirling cherries of happiness

Mandala, 09-05-06

Mandala, 09-04-06

... Autumn teases us

Celebrating as lovely Autumn teases us with her cool breezes.

Mandala in desert colors III

Created in Adobe Illustrator and filtered in Photoshop. I used a combination of these filters: high pass, equalize and plastic wrap.

slices of a yummy July day

First full day of Summer, 2006

Midsummer's Eve Mandala

June's poppies Composed

Gourd Mandala

The Original


I grabbed an interesting photo of a gourd that my daughter had taken while visiting the local farmer's market. I did a bit of cropping and cutting away of the part of the image I didn't want and then rotated the portion I did around a center axis point.

The Mandala

Spiraling into teal-ness

mandala for the middle of May