#1 - How to Create a Hand Mandala

Materials Needed

Black Card Stock – full sheet 81/2 x 11
White Color Pencil
Pencil Sharpener
Compass
Colored Pencil Set
Sketchbook Journal

Instruction Review

Using your white pencil and a compass, draw the largest circle that will fit on your black paper
Trace the outline of your hand within the circle
Use the Black and White Mandala techniques to fill in the space surrounding your hand’s outline
Draw lines and shapes around the outline of your hand, shading the forms in as you go
Rotate your paper around as you work
Don’t forget to Harvest Words as you go (Refer back to Class Three)
You might want to write the words within your mandala as well as in your sketchbook journal
When you are almost finished, add in some areas of colored pencil
Do your Word Harvest Practice in your sketchbook journal and then record it on the back of your mandala - Don’t forget to date it

Practicing

Spend the week creating hand mandalas. Feel free to use any of the techniques you have learned thus far. You might try creating a hand mandala on white paper within your sketchbook journal using your graphite pencil or using the Radiating Mandala process.

Responding

Look at the hand mandalas that you created this week.

Think of them as individual personalities. They are parts and pieces of who you are.

Ponder what the hand represents in each of your mandalas.

Consider what your Hand Mandalas say about you.

What do you wish to receive?

What do you want to give?

What do you have gratitude for?

What do you need to let go of?

What do you need to heal?

Sharing

Sharing your thoughts and experiences in the Gathering Place at the bottom of the pages as well as on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram! Mention us @CreatingBrave in your status, tweet and/or caption and include the hashtags #CreatingBrave and #HandMandalas