Drawing Mandalas: How to Create Beautiful, Intricate Patterns

*Shortlisted for the Creative Book Awards 2023**Received 'Highly Commended' award for the Creative Book Awards 2023* If you've ever wondered how to draw mandalas, then this illustrated full-color guide is just what you need. Beautiful and intricate, mandalas have appeared in decorative artworks and in spiritual works for thousands of years. More recently they have been celebrated as a way to practice mindfulness, with the repetition of patterns, colors and shapes inviting you find peace in the present moment. This step-by-step guide shows even total beginners how to master mandala drawing and replicate these complex patterns. Over the course of eight chapters, artist, teacher and author Hannah Geddes explores the origins of mandalas and then leads readers through the process of creating mandalas them. Includes: - A guide to the materials and tools needed - Step-by-step instructions on how to draw the various components - from centers and middles to outer segments and borders - How to make templates and create intricate patterns including a compass rose mandala, a half-moon mandala and an intriguing sinkhole mandala - The incorporation of sacred geometry and patterns - How to introduce color into the patterns There are beautiful projects to follow to practice your skills and lots of handy tips to help readers become confident mandala designers.