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Summary: Calligraphy can be used to create abstract designs. Learn more in this free calligraphy lettering lesson from a calligrapher with three decades of lettering experience.
Pamela LaRegina began her career as a calligrapher/artist by registering her business, Supercalligraphics, with the state of Connecticut in 1976. As soul owner of this monk's cell of a...read more
"I was always trying to sort of radiate, one, two, monstrous that's the term I couldn't come up just a second ago. Alright so you know what a triad is going to come into play here is the one that is repetition, variation and change. You're not going to change from the idea of the radiance of this mandala. But if you want some very, very marvelous inspiration for mandala designs and also an inspiration for the meanings of numbers, check out Michael Glickman's Crop Circles. On the back of which you will see reference to the many crop circles designs that have appeared over the last dozen years or so. Which are clearly mandalas. Mandalas. Ok some simple some very, very complex, some very, very large. And then let's go back to something that comes straight out of my studio, and that is this little guy. This I painted in January when I need to fill myself with rich, sense of richness and color. And it really did the trick. This is another, this kind of painting is quite a process because the decision making is what takes a long time. But once I've decided that I'm going to do something, I don't know if you can see or not, but these are all, this little tone in here is actually all little painted diamonds ok so once I've decided to paint those diamonds in then I was good to go and I went ahead and put on the music and just played with that. It took me a few hours, but anyway so whoosh circular designs."