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Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved Happiness is a mandala with red! I just love the red outer circle and the star shaped inner circle. They really keep me in the mandala and feeling centered. It was a total joy to color this one up yesterday....with my new Copic markers. Onward and upward!
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Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved I've interpreted this design a few times. Twice on the computer just fooling around with color, and then this one which I hand colored with my new Copic markers. Wow...they are really wonderful. My favorite marker is still Sharpie...but they just don't have the color range I need. I still love that super fine tip though. Anyway, these new markers are lovely, they are archival quality, come in a vast range of colors and values...it's the new way for me and JoDesigns!
Jody Cooke © 2014 This mandala goes out to the sweetest girl in the world....my daughter, Melanie. I love you Mel Mel....forever.
 Jody Cooke © 2014 As much as I truly love to mark up a mandala with lines...I started to realize that when it comes time to color them...I was missing the joy of big solid blocks of pure color. So, even though that is still very much my style, this day I decided to leave open space to honor color. The gold really makes me happy and I feel a warm peace looking at it. I hope you enjoy it too!
 Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved There are certain elements that naturally occur in my designs. I tried to alter those symbols in this design to keep from having a possible sameness to my mandalas. I think it worked. It's always a catch 22 with me and the hand drawn designing. While I do not care for the static look of a computer generated design, my imperfect lines bother me too. But in the end I choose my own hand over the perfect cold, lines of a computer design. Just don't look to closely!
 Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved I'm returning to a more simple phase. At least in the background effects. Sometimes I like a maze of lines running throughout the mandala, other times it's all about the perfectly centered beauteous mandala....and a few floral motifs in the corners. I realized I hardly ever use purple, so today I made a point to honor this wonderful color of the rainbow.
 Jody Cooke © 2014 All Rights Reserved Here's another mandala in the folksy Pennsylvania Dutch genre. I'm not sure what it is that attracts me to this design, but I am definitely attracted. I think it's the simplicity of forms and the open, light and airy composition that appeals to me. The "strawberry" hearts give it that homey hex sign kind of feel that resonates in some basic way with my soul.
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Photography: Pat Olds
AuthorHello, and welcome to my website. My name is Jody Cooke and I am a designer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I have been an artist in some form or another for over thirty years. My new passion is mandalas! Since I learned about them in January 2013, I have created over 1,500 (black and white) of these circular patterns and over 160 full color. Some are very small and sketchy, most are 8 inches in diameter, currently I am creating on 24" x 18" paper (transitioning into a Lotus Mandala series as of summer 2017) and one is a 24 inch square acrylic mandala painting on canvas. Definitely not my preferred medium..but I gave it a try! CategoriesArchive
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