Designing a Mandala, or Kaleidoscope, is a perfect culmination exercise to practice all your skills with lines, shapes, and patterns. You’ll need a paper, pencil, compass, and ruler for this.
1. Start by finding the center point on your paper. Using the compass, draw a circle in pencil to nearly fill the page.
2. With the ruler, divide the circle into 8 equal “pie” pieces. These are guide lines, so I suggest you continue with pencil.
3. Again with the compass, draw several concentric circles.
4. A Mandala is a “Radial” pattern that is also symmetrical. The pattern starts at the center point and moves out to the
outside edge. Add your line and shape elements. As long as the “pie”piece designs are symmetrical, you could create an
“A” pattern all the way around, or an “A/B” pattern, or maybe an “AA’ “BB” pattern. Many possibilities.
5. The pencil guide lines can be used as part of the design, or erased as you desire.
Now you’ve created a Coloring book quality design all your own. There is much written on how Mandalas are created and used to enhance your meditation practice, if you’re interested. Enjoy coloring your masterpiece with the media of your choice.
