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Colored Pencil Mandalas

Third and Fourth Grade students learned about the Buddhist practice of creating sand mandalas for meditation. We used rulers and pencils to design our own mandalas with radial symmetry, then colored these in using colored pencil gradients, varying the value from light to dark.
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  • Public Installations
  • Arts Integration
  • Elementary
    • Kindergarten >
      • Valentine Hearts
      • Snakes in the Grass
      • Weather Books
      • Penguins in Antarctica
    • First and Second Grade >
      • Night Time Bonfires
      • Gyotaku Fish Prints
      • Surrealist Exquisite Corpse
      • Kandinsky Color Circles
    • Third and Fourth Grade >
      • Mexican Luchador Masks
      • Colored Pencil Mandalas
    • Fifth and Sixth Grade >
      • Textural Busts
      • Chinese Brush Painting
      • Indonesian Shadow Puppets
    • Seventh and Eighth Grade >
      • Putting Yourself in Perspective
      • Tunnel Books
      • Rubber Stamp Patterns
  • Secondary
    • Advanced Placement Art >
      • Persian Miniatures
      • Satirical Linoleum Cut Prints
    • Drawing >
      • Chalk and Charcoal Landscapes
      • Ink Wash Landscapes
      • The Oldest Shoe
      • Pencil Self Portrait
      • Caricature Self Portrait
    • Painting >
      • "Big Self Portrait"
      • Figure Painting
      • Surrealistic Landscape
    • Printmaking >
      • Color Monoprints
      • Acrylic Gel Transfers
      • Rhythm Collographs
      • Personal Logo Silkscreen Design
    • Photography >
      • Egg Roll
      • Depth of Field
      • Old Things
  • Artist's Portfolio
    • Printmaking
    • Photography
    • Ceramics
    • Painting
    • Digital and Multimedia
  • Resume
  • Teaching Philosophy