Illuminated Mandalas Pins and Buttons

Multiple warm glowing suns surround a delicate flowering center where beads of yellow pollen are poised to float away on lyrical gentle breezes, scattering to the four winds the possibility of new colorful beginnings. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Minutes tick by, then float away on the breeze, rippling into infinity in a colorful whirl of the tomorrow merging into the yesterday. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Brilliant multi-colored ribbons interspersed with tiny feather motifs, gently revolving around blue and green spheres. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Multi-colored pulsating and rippling streamers against a black background - mesmerizing! Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Curved and rippling tapering strands dance brightly around a colorful twirling symmetry of musically inclined ribbons of light. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Colorful feathery fronds with friendly spiral endings dance brightly around a profoundly purple twelve point star, while little drifting sliver moons frolic beyond the edge of night. Astute Graphics/Illustrator Drawing, Coloring, & Digital Effects

Serene multi-hued tails spin gently away from receding arcs and purple spheres. Pink ripple tendrils glide around the teal center of this peacefully spiraling mandala. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A light breeze kicks up, sending colorful tapering strands sailing around small feathery motifs, accompanied by knees-bent lavender legs stepping lightly in a merry dance amongst small red, blue, and green spheres. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A light blue pinwheel with curving pink and orange accents spins in the center of a delightful arrangement of enthusiastically wavy feathering ribbons, highlighted by deep red spheres decorating the voids. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Enchanting rippling tentacles in living coral and a multitude of other bright colors wave invitingly around the gently drifting center of an imaginary sea anemone, cast adrift in the dark and mysterious blackness of the ocean depths. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

The colorful gentle waves of a border round the periphery of a brightly glowing symmetrical assortment of cheerful ribbony lines and purple spheres, divided like clockwork by momentary interruptions of luminescent yellow tapering lines. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

An elegant spiraling mandala, with lyrical tapering lines and highlights of delicate colorful leaves. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Twisting stitches, circling clockwise in a spinning swirling sweep, sewing together the fabric of time. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Sweeping brush percussion wands split the rhythms of colorful little counterpoint trills and lively dancing wavy ribbons. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Lyrical bronze bells dance lightly around a light violet center sphere, surrounded by colorful melodic riffs whistling brightly toward the outer reaches. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Rays of orange, yellow, green, blue, and lavender light slowly rotate around a golden center, with planetary spheres and colorful ribbons orbiting the perimeter. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Colorful twisting strands around a dancing center, with happy ribbons trailing off into the night. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A gentle breeze from the west whips up a lyrical rotation of lightly dancing purple, yellow, and green streamers from a counter-rotating center, and little colorful eddies form in their wakes. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

An orchestral symphony of light, color, and stimulating harmonic vibration; illustrating the symbiotic nature of a musical score with an enchanting synchronization of lyrical rhythmic ribbons and colorful percussion spheres. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A benevolent set of brushed strokes, all laid out in beautiful waving curves, the palette of colors blending a dreamy mix of hues and shades, the curvilinear forms gliding gently around a tapering metaphorical flower. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A glorious off-kilter outburst of bright yellow, orange, and multi-colored pastel feathers sweeps out from a serene and calmly rotating center of embossed rippling ribbons. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Translucent aqua waves sweep inward over a darkly textured sea floor, drawn by the tranquil blue moon at the center, and surrounded by slowly spinning rusty orange clouds. From photographs of ocean waves. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

Delightful brightly lit sunflower lollipops, with a background of soft green textured sunflower seedheads. From photographs of sunflowers and sunflower seeds. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

The criss-cross wires of an abandoned bicycle wheel, woven into a charming mandala with a lyrical hub of pastel and bright green-yellow. From photographs of an old bicycle wheel, hardware cloth, sticks, and an abandoned clutch plate. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

Slowly twirling ribbons and tiny flourishes, hovering above a field of undulating waves. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Mysterious dark orange writhing tendrils float behind an illuminated hexagonal pavilion surrounded by rippling lavender waves and a decorative toroidal band of thin copper. From photographs of ragged patio chair straps and a roll of wire fencing with pine needles stuck in it. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

Graceful rippling lines, organic forms, and muted earth tones. I see the sun and moon, ocean currents and the pull of the tides, forest and desert, the dark of night and the light of day in this image. Pencil Drawing + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting

Elegant smooth wavy tapering lines bathed in a translucent white glow gather above an organic array of softly rippling multi-hued roasted bark. Background is from a photograph of a burnt Ponderosa Pine tree trunk. Photography + Illustrator Drawing, Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Images of neglect and abandon are transformed into a luxurious mandala that is reminiscent of an opulent stained glass window illuminated with glowing warm light. From photographs of a wadded up cloth in a pile of pine needles lying next to a scratched and rusty blue painted metal panel, and the pegboard of an abandoned and dilapidated upright piano. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

Wispy pale blue willowy dancing feathers surround the warm morning sun as it glows away the darkness with a splendid purple and orange welcome to another bright day. Illustrator/Astute Graphics Drawing + Illustrator/Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Slender light violet furry florets beneath fleeting wisps of blue light dance symmetrically around a leggy pink floral arrangement of painterly Beebalm petals. An abstract tangle of furrowed fibers weaves ethereally in the background. From photographs of Wild Bergamot Beebalm in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

A bright petals flower mandala, outlined by gently glowing color coordinated lights and decorated with interwoven blades of dusty purple tall grass with pale tangerine orange highlights on the perimeter. A dazzling cyan center and miniature light violet matching flowers complete the enthusiasm, above a background of painterly daublets glowing radiantly orange in the corners. Photography + Illustrator Drawing, Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Vibrantly abstract embroiderly textures in multiple hues and enthusiastic disposition symmetrically surround six tiny turquoise figures standing on a star, while a carpet of woven dream fibers swirls gently in the background. Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photoshop/On1/Topaz/Filter Forge Digital Effects

A single labyrinthian line winds its way round and round this illuminated clockface mandala, never beginning, never ending, perpetually marking the endless sweeping of time from present into past. Surrounding the labyrinth, a second single line ticks back and forth, advancing from corner to corner around the maze. Pencil Drawing + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting

A much maligned tumbleweed finally settles down and composes itself into a brightly lit vaulted ceiling, with sturdy knotted stick beams and extra points for unwelcome guests. From a photograph of a large desert tumbleweed, Socorro, New Mexico. Photography + Digital Effects

The sun casts a brilliant flare upon the wandering clouds, one last glowing tribute to the vast and ever-changing sky. From photographs of a dazzling summer sunset in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Photography + Digital Effects