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Highly intricate handpainted mandala stones are mini masterpieces
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Highly Intricate, Handpainted Mandala Stones are Mini Masterpieces

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Portugal-based artist Rafaela Santos painstakingly hand paints these mandala stones, which can be used for meditation, candle holders, and reflective artwork.

Selling under the name Amandalarocks, Santos offers dozens of beautifully detailed stones, which feature highly refined patterns that seem too perfect to be hand painted.

Using a pointillism technique, the patterns are painted dot by dot, creating elegant geometry.

Starting at $59, the stones make an excellent gift.

See more on the Amanadalarocks Etsy shop.

A decorative round stone featuring a pattern of purple circles outlined in black, against a white background.
A top view of a round candle holder with a vibrant purple and pink patterned design, featuring a lit candle in the center.
A decorative candle holder shaped like an oval stone, featuring a vibrant pattern of pink and purple circles with black outlines.
A round candle holder with vibrant orange and green patterns, featuring a central space for a candle, against a white background.
Three views of a spherical object featuring a decorative pattern of green and blue circles with black outlines and a central gold feature.
A circular arrangement of seven colorful patterned stones on a white background.
A round decorative stone featuring intricate floral-patterned designs in gold and pink against a black background.
A person holding a beautifully designed round decorative bowl with intricate patterns in red, white, and gold.
A decorative round plate featuring intricate patterns in red, white, and gold on a black background.
A decorative candle holder with a round shape, featuring a blue and gold mandala design on a black background.
A round decorative piece featuring a black background with a white and gold intricate mandala design.
A colorful decorative candle holder featuring intricate geometric patterns in pink, blue, yellow, and orange, with a lit candle at the center.
A colorful decorative candle holder featuring a geometric pattern with vibrant hues and a central candle.
A spherical object featuring a geometric pattern of small circles in gradients of blue and purple against a white background.
A decorative candle holder with a vibrant purple and pink polka dot design surrounding a small lit candle.
A round decorative candle holder with a vibrant pink and red dotted pattern, featuring a central space for a candle.
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Artfully intricate designs by kristen meyer
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Artfully Intricate Designs by Kristen Meyer

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Kristen Meyer has always had a great eye for artful arrangements, whether that’s carefully trimmed leaves, or color-coded eggshells, placed into precise shapes.

We’re exploring some of her more recent work, which continues the beautiful sense of craft and precision. Which are your favorite?

See more on Meyer’s Instagram.

Images used with artist’s permission. 

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AI

A Collection of Scarily Delicious Halloween Mandalas

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We had a lot of fun creating this series of spooky and yummy Halloween Mandalas, featuring a range of scary and tasty objects, from strange fruits to dramatic candy corn arrangements, to creepy crawlies.

Created using the AI tool Midjourney, we found that mandalas, geometric configuration of symbols, are a perfect prompt for generative AI art, which is great at creating patterns and symmetry.

Through a lot of trial and error, we were able to find the right balance of realism, recognizable objects, and some stranger-than-real-life creations.

We tried to balance the creepy creatures with spreads of Halloween candy and moody witch séances.

See more mandala art by Moss and Fog and other talented artists here. 

 

 

 

 

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Electronic Mandalas Within Vintage Tennis Rackets

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These objects are incongruous to one another. Artist Leonardo Ulian knows that, and has a knack for creating objects that span various mediums and materials. This series uses vintage electronic components, carefully soldered and suspended in a mandala-like formation.

We love the abstracted faces that Ulian has created with these very unique, and very skillfully created pieces. And there’s something magical about the way the oval frame of the tennis racket holds something so different from its traditional webbing. See more of his fascinating work on Instagram.

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The egg shape of the “head” of these vintage rackets reminded me of something yet familiar but at the moment lost. The result is a composition that resembles vaguely a human face made from a recycled object from the past, the racket, clashing with the rest of the elements, electronic parts, and the found objects. Then, an anomaly called “pareidolia,” the mechanism that leads our brain to bring things and objects of all kinds back to known and sensible forms does the rest. Will these be the faces of the future?

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Fleeting Beach and Nature Artworks by Andres Amador

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Artist Andres Amador is all about the temporary. Despite dedicating himself to large-scale, time-intensive sand sculptures and artwork, he’s perfectly okay with the work being washed away moments later. He considers himself an Earthscape artist.

Creating geometric patterns and shapes on sand, as well as Andy Goldsworthy-esque nature pieces, Amador’s work is ambitious and also fleeting, which is part of why we like it so much. The connection to nature is strong, allowing the natural world to take over the art, even moments after its made. Paying attention to low and high tides, Amador chooses a particular beach that is wide and at low tide, giving him time to create his piece. Immediately afterward, he photographs the artwork with a drone, a tool that is instrumental in helping him get an aerial perspective.

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A great short video on Amador’s Earthscapes, from KQED:

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Geometric, Perfectly Arranged Items

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There’s something special about these geometric, pieced arrangements by Kristen Meyer. On top of them being expertly arranged to create exacting geometric forms, they’re broken and fragmented just right, balanced to create visual harmony.  The right amount of negative space brings this balance to life, making these much more than just a bunch of arranged fragments. The arrangements range from broken shells and flower petals, to bits of dry spaghetti and even torn herbs. Really lovely collection, see more on Meyer’s Instagram.  Via Colossal:

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Intricate Nature Mandalas

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Mandalas are a great way to showcase found materials, especially colorful flower petals, leaves, twigs and stones. Portland based artist Jen Muehlenkamp has a definite knack for the art of mandala building, as seen here in a collection of her creations. They showcase carefully arranged flower petals, found butterfly wings, and fall leaves, arranged with thoughtful symmetry.   Others are made from carrot tops and acorns. Simple, fleeting, beautiful. Via Behance:

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Natural Mandalas Made From Plants and Flowers

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Mandalas originate from Hinduism and Buddhism, but now have been colloquialized to refer to patterns of geometric form, often spiritual and organic in nature. They’re also a very meditative form of art creation, and we encourage you to attempt one the next time you’re able to escape the city and spend some time in nature. Here’s a collection of beautiful natural mandalas created from plants, flowers and other found objects. Via Danmala on Pinterest:

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Matt Moore Nature Mandala
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Beautifully Composed Natural Mandalas

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Take a look at these natural mandalas created from carefully arranged sticks, rocks, slices of wood, and river stones. Such elegant symmetry and form, and the color palette of materials is lovely. Set on a black backdrop, the pieces are elegant. It’s obvious that a lot of planning went into the creation of each mandala. From artist Matt W. Moore, Via SynapticStimuli:
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