A Pause for Beauty
Everyone needs to take a little break now and then....The artwork in this video was created using my alcohol ink paintings as source images, with music from Hildegard of Bingen, Vision 1 - The Fire of...
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(best viewed in full screen)CirclesThe moon is most happy when it is full,the sun always looks like a perfectly minted gold coinpolished and placed in flight by God's playful kiss.And so many varieties...
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Radiate Joy!
Radiate Joy! (Stacy Wills, 2013)The mandala was created using a photograph of a gladiola as the source image.Just a little "happy" on this last day of May from Rumi and me!
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Just for the Record
Recently, I began painting mandalas on old LP's again. A few years ago I did several, sold some, donated some, and put the last one I had left in an exhibit at the Tunica Riverpark & Museum....
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Medicine Wheel: The Evolution of a Mandala
A few months ago, I brought home 4hubcap "canvases" from Hubcap Heaven.The first one that sparked my imagination was the greasy one in the middle. Its basic design, already divided into fourths,...
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On the Importance of Following Breadcrumbs
Communion Batik (Stacy Wills, 2013)watercolor on canvas + digital (sacred) alteringIn my process of what I've come to call, sacred altering - combining traditional mediums with digital technology, I...
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Of Prayer Beads and Mandalas
Recently, I began making Anglican prayer beads. I've long been fascinated with rosaries, both Catholic and Anglican, as well as malas, and always wanted to learn how to make them. Finally, I took the...
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Art Exhibit in Progress
It has been awhile since I've done an exhibit of my artwork, so I was pleased at how this display came together. There's a little bit of everything...mandalas, alcohol inks, Citra Solv art, mixed...
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Autumn Movement - a poem from Carl Sandburg
Experimental Autumn (Stacy Wills, 2013)created from source image + sacred alteringAutumn MovementI cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.The field of cornflower yellow is a...
View ArticleAdventures in Experimental Art
Sacred Altering: Adventures in Experimental Artby Stacy WillsI recently shared this on my other blog, but thought I would share it here as well. It's a little video of my recent experimental artwork....
View ArticleComing Full Circle 2014: A Mandala Calendar by Stacy Wills
It's been a long time coming...but it's finally here...the calendar I've been wanting to do for so long. I've learned so much from the time the seed for its creation was planted until now, when I can...
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Just Another Mandala Monday...
No "manic Monday" for me...today was one of my "Art in Pajamas" days...relaxed...creative...Happy!I had seen a video recently (I wish I could remember where!) of a fun, easy way to create mandalas...
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I'm H-A-P-P-Y
Crossing Over (Stacy Wills, 2013)acrylic on canvas + sacred alteringI'm leaving this year on a high note, and dancing into 2014 with joy in my heart. I was introduced to this video by Pharrell...
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12 Mandalas in 12 Days Project - January
"Happy" by Stacy Wills, 2014(acrylic on watercolor paper + sacred altering)At the beginning of 2014, I decided to take part in 12 Mandalas in 12 Days - a creative project put together by California...
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Rekindling a Daily Mandala Practice
Rekindling a daily mandala practice has been such a gift. As I wrote in my last post, it began with my participation in Judy Shintani's creative project - 12 Mandalas in 12 Days. Now, I'm keeping a...
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"Peace" - A poem by Sara Teasdale
Peace (Stacy Wills, 2014)watercolors on paper + alcohol inks + sacred alteringPeacePeace flows into meAs the tide to the pool by the shore;It is mine forevermore,It ebbs not back like the sea.I am the...
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To Understand Easter...
Resurrection Dance (Stacy Wills, 2014)watercolor on paper + sacred altering"To understand Easter and live it, we must renounce our dread of newness and freedom."-Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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Mandalations and Creative R & R
"Mandalations" (Stacy Wills, 2014)alcohol inks on ceramic tile, 4" x 4"I have been incredibly busy this spring...and have really neglected my blogs, which I'm not too happy about. Hopefully, I will be...
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Adventures in "Touch Drawing"
This past week, I've been getting my studio at Allison's Wells back in order after repairs were done to fix a leak. When I was finished, I decided to try my hand at Touch Drawing, an intuitive drawing...
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The Dance
The Dance (Stacy Wills, 2014)alcohol inks on yupo 4" x 6"Circles, wheels, light on light, a dance of invisibles.-Dorothy Walters (from her poem, The Abundance of Brightness)
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Birth/Afterbirth
Each mandala I create has a life of its own.It begins, as many lives do, with an intentionand the planting of a seed.A mandala in its embryonic form, holdsthe promise of what is to come.The gestation...
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At Home in Nature's Cathedral
I feel at home in nature's cathedral."Look up! Look up!" the timbers sing -and I, humble penitent,quick to obey, behold glory.
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Portal and a poem by Dante Alighieri
Portal (Stacy Wills)24" x 36" acrylic on canvasThe Love of GodThe love of God, unutterable and perfect,flows into a pure soul the way that lightrushes into a transparent object.The more love that it...
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This is the Way the Mandala is Made!
A mandala begins simply enough, lines...shapes...color A quarter turn...a quarter turn...color goes all around Little things added...a ruffle here Bold lines thereChoices made and changes, too...
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