Magnificent Mandala & Mehndi Designs; Entry #9--The Lady & Lavender

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Here is the latest of the Mehndi designs I have completed. I've been experimenting with different pens, markers, and colored pencils in an ongoing effort to determine which medium I like working with best. This was done with a very cheap set of colored pencils...if you couldn't tell.

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I like to take pictures along the way to chart progress and show the method to my madness when applying different colors...there really isn't one, I just throw things together and hope for the best...I wish that were the case...I actually do try to express as much contrast and shading as possible.

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I'm actually more impressed with the piece I am currently working on. I started it with the same cheap colored pencils as this one, just to see I needed to "break them in" a bit first. When that didn't pan out, I ran out and bought a much better set of colored pencils to complete it with...and the colors on that one really pop, so I think I'll continue using those brand name products over the generic cost sucking kind from here on out.

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It's not that this turned out so terrible I didn't want to share it...but I did like this design and sure wish I would've switched colored pencils a few posts ago. Anyhow, I didn't receive a single comment on starting a contest with these things in the post I shared yesterday so I guess we'll just shelve that idea for the time being...maybe we'll revisit it again in the future...who knows.

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