Adri is very good a finding crafting courses for us to go on. We went to a dotty mandala painting workshop in Jaffa with both Israeli and Arab women. There was a really lovely atmosphere. The instructor pre-paints the canvas and draws circles and lines faintly to help the painter. The second two I did at home using a purple background.
Then I found some very small ones to paint in purple and turn into dotty mandalas in an art shop in Hove. I even used tipex and some new metallic pens.
Chaya was quite interested to investigate. But probably only because she thought they would satisfy her hunger!
I managed to buy some more square canvases in Hove. So they were painted and dotted! And then I bought even more but this time used different paint which ended up being very thick. So I painted it in a spiral form. An alternative dotty mandala!
And then I found a large square canvas in the rubbish pile. It needed a little TLC and once I had painted it black it was as good as new. I also painted the back and made it into a halloween scene for the children (all 2 of them) in my building.
Next up paper making….
