I was out walking the other day and noticed an interesting hubcap. Then I noticed other hubcaps. What wonderful inspiration for mandala designs! Simply plug "hubcap photos" into an image search engine and you'll find lots of inspiration! Here are five, along with the hubcap that inspired them.
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Tangles: Black Pearlz, Doodah, Fife, Hibred,
Prestwood, Skyesil, Zewm |
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| Tangles: Dewd, Icantoo, Mazorito, Snail |
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Tangles: Crescent Moon, Fohbraid, Gewgle,
Tipple, Zewm |
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Tangles: Apacore, Cubine, and elements of
Moonwaves and Tripoli, and more. |
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| Tangles: Black Pearlz, Prestwood, Slowpoke, and more |
Nice and inspiring blogpost with beautiful results. I'm very happy to see you have used Mazorito in the second tile. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ria. I recently saw the tangle named Lapwing, and thought "That looks a lot like Mazorito." I thought Mazorito had some of the stripes filled, and Lapwing was empty, but rather, the one begins with small circles and the other with more like dots. In fact, there is very little difference, and Mazorito was presented about two years earlier, so I will change the name in my tile label.
DeleteThanks for inspiring me to check!
Thank you very much Margaret, I very grateful and I'm a great fan of your (always) inspiring and beautiful work!
DeleteWhat a super idea. I love how you've taken something everyone takes for granted, and often over looks and made such beautiful art from it
ReplyDeleteThese are AWESOME!!!! I love how you always take ANYTHING and make into art!! Such an inspiration!! Thanks for always sharing!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Felicia! Someone once challenged Jasper Johns to make art out of maps of the states; he did it!
DeleteWhat a fantastic idea. Wonderfully done!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVE these, Margaret!!! Each one is so intricate, so dimensional, so dramatic, SO creative. :) And ... by posting these, you've introduced us to another category from which we can derive unlimited inspiration!!
ReplyDeleteJust so you know, every time I receive an email alerting me to your most recent post, I get so excited because I KNOW there's something new which will amaze me, make me smile, make me think and inspire me! I am SO grateful that you continue to post here AND that there are years' worth of posts I can return to whenever I want!! Thank you Margaret ... you are a treasure. :)
Thank you SO MUCH Jan!
DeleteHoly Cow what a great idea! Now I really cantire, I mean can't tire of these! Love this idea and the resulting zendalas. As always thanks for the inspiration and for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteGreat idea with the hubcaps. It reminds me of when I visited Spain 12 years ago. I noticed beautiful utility-hole covers and ended up taking photos of many of them! You've inspired me to go through my albums of that trip and see if I get any ideas from them.
Thanks Colleen. Yes, I've seen some very impressive manhole covers too! There are cities that have commissioned artists to design some.
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