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Mandala 9-15-13

9/22/2013

I've been experimenting with a three/six pointed mandala design. Most of my designs are based on eight points like a compass....and I actually begin drawing with my center point, the first circle and I radiate out from there with a line North, South, East and West, then fill in with North East, South East, South West, and North West points and lines. Okay, so none of that applies anymore with a mandala that begins with the Trinity. It's fun to shake things up...if I'm not changing then I feel like I am stagnating. This has freshened my approach and I appreciate the new thinking that this progression from three points, to six points and then finally twelve has brought on. I can't say I'll do many of these, but I did like the divergent. Enjoy!

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Mandala 8-21-13

9/10/2013

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I just finished coloring this mandala about a half an hour ago. It's so nice to have the time and the motivation to start, finish, scan, and post mandalas! As much as I love Summer....I truly love September and back to work full time creating, expressing and sharing my work. It's so fun to sit down with a fresh design and fill in the shapes with colors. Color changes everything! My family was attracted to the cool blues, greens and purples in this piece. I just love it because it's crisp and new and I'm creating with a light heart today.

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Mandala 7-6-13

9/5/2013

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Happy again with my brights! I started painting this mandala earlier this summer with my beloved Winsor Newton inks....then what happened, I don't know...my daughter wanted a sleepover, friends coming to visit, a jump in the pool? Who knows for sure...but it sat on my drafting table for about a month. I kept wanting to get back to it, but never quite made the time to finish it. Now with school back in session, I made it a point to finish it AND post it! Voila! I think it truly reflects my happy joyous summer with all the warm orange, pink and yellow.

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Mandala 8-8-16

9/5/2013

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I make so many mandalas I simply call them the date in which I create them. It's an orderly way to function since mandalas are all over my studio! I have disciplined myself to make one a day. I never want to loose sight of the fact that this is my daily meditation. If a cool piece of "art" is the byproduct, well than I am doubly blessed that day. This mandala's color scheme is rather subdued compared to my natural tendency towards the brights and tropical colors. But I was trying to make a design that coordinated with my living room palette. I think it works....but I miss my saturated colors!

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Photography: Pat Olds

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Hello, 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!
Making mandalas is the most rewarding creative endeavor of my career. Each time I sit down to draw I am so excited to see what comes out on the paper. I feel so fortunate to have found this expressive and spiritual porthole to reveal my true self. Thank you for visiting my site.

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