Each time he puts a new one out, I think "Oooh, how pretty, I'd love to colour that!" but the last few weeks have been a fury of activity, and I just wasn't able to get to them.
When I saw this one, however, I knew I could not miss out on it. It reminded me of a black hole, where nothing escapes, not even light itself. The design, with it's interesting mixture of curves and angles, reminded me of all kinds of information being sucked down into a singularity.
I hope you like it =)
Black Hole
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Max. Print Size: 14" x 14"
“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”
-- Ken Poirot
The process
I started off with the Mandala that I found for this weeks "Monday Mandala", which I have yet to complete... For now, all I needed was some beautiful yellow:
Next, I got to work in photoshop, using Eraser and many different layers:
I then changed the image saturation and brightness to get a more intense yellow...:
And then it was back to the Eraser and layers! :
It was looking good, but some contrast was missing, so I blackened up the mandala, gave it another twist and used it to finalise in photoshop yet again:
Lastly, the background... I simply took the original mandala image and gave it a strong radial blur:
With some eraser and varied opacities, I completed the stencil:
And there you have it =) ... I highly recommend following @magiccleatus and participating in his weekly colouring contest... It's extremely fun to do, and actually quite therapeutic.
Thank you for your upvote 💖
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A few recent posts of mine:
The Mandelsage Challenge - Why I Get Up Every Morning | "Larva on a Leaf" - Gallery: Fine Art | Diary of an Inter-Galactic Traveller - No Man's Sky
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